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The Invention of Intelligence, Part 2

(personal version)

Given two turntables, a sound mixer, and a stack of records from the eighties,

could you find two songs that are close enough in beats per minute and blend them together? What if I could demonstrate that the ability to synchronize two different records reflects the deeper intelligence required to reconcile one’s existence between two separate worlds?  Below is a personal version of the previous post. It starts with the same opening paragraph as the academic one.

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The Invention of Intelligence

(academic version)

Given two turntables, a sound mixer, and a stack of records from the eighties,

could you find two songs that are close enough in beats per minute and blend them together? What if I could demonstrate that the ability to synchronize two different records reflects the deeper intelligence required to reconcile one’s existence between two separate worlds?

Continue reading The Invention of Intelligence