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How many of you recognize the pattern on image above? Yes, it’s Fibonacci numbers:
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, …Some of you may read piece of code below and recognize the same idea.
In English, Chinese and Russian it looks like:
By definition, the first two numbers in the Fibonacci sequence are 0 and 1, and each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two.[wikipedia]斐波纳契数列中的前两个数字为0和1，每个后续数字为前两个数字之和Последовательность чисел, начинающаяся на 0,1 где каждое последующее число равно суме двух предыдущих
But the intuition is still the same. You may remember that feeling when you first time got what is it. That moment when a new instance, a new program, a new concept was created in your mind. Later you may recognize the Fibonacci pattern in nature everywhere. You will easily write code for rabbit population growth simulation via just learned JavaScript language. The reason is you know that rabbit population obey the Fibonacci law.
An ability to translate one language into another leads us to the idea that translator really understands both systems and how they work. In addition, a translator has an intermediate representation of the laws that is the pure knowledge.
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So, the definition of intelligence is the ability to translate one phenomenon or algorithm to another for any given reference Turing machine. Also, it requires an ability to perform some of these algorithms. And the more languages agent acquires, the smarter he becomes. And by languages I mean visual representation, spoken languages, written languages, computer programs and mathematics.
Modern language is the most complex system among the systems that we as intellectual agents could work with. Because it has good coverage of each phenomenon in the world.
I’ve recently found nice quote that is related to the subject.
Deep in the labyrinth you invent new words. There, you do not go with many. So, you compute with oracles, understand structures with rings, decide with truthful bidding. But, to spread the word, you need analogies.
To be continued.