what would it be like to be made machine-like, insanely efficient

>>9086721
>what would it be like to be made machine-like, insanely efficient at completing tasks but not capable of generating them?

sounds like me when i masturbate, so to answer your question

i feel mostly the same when masturbating vs not

>>9086721
Positing problems and solving them are organic, stochastic, multi-agent and evolutionary selection processes. We don't really understand these types of intelligence yet.

>what would it be like to be made machine-like, insanely efficient at completing tasks but not capable of generating them?

"Being" is not necessary in completing tasks. Is your computer alive or "being" in some subjective sense?

>is there any scientific model on the disparity between rational thought and intuition?
Not a clear one. See below.

>how do you quantify their differences?
Rational thought has recently received a "definition" of sorts through statistics and computer science. You should look at definitions of "computability" and "effective procedure". As for "intuition", I don't think this is a well-defined term. It is tied closely to subjective experience and the individual (what is intuitive for some is not intuitive for others, and we have barely scratched the surface as to the mechanisms of intuition).

>would it be like an inanimate object adhering to the principle of least action?
You're on the right track if my thoughts are correct. I believe that intuition is an organic process, with "memes" passed down from one generation of thinkers to the next. There is no Newton without Barrow, and no Barrow without his mentor, etc. The process these thinkers are undergoing is a selective one, involving thousands upon thousands of different individuals, each who supply some mathematical object, idea, or conception which lends itself to the solution of the big problem.

For a good insight into the practice of intuition, I recommend reading Einstein's papers as a young man. You can see him painstakingly consider many different objects of a mathematical and physical nature, and watch him essentially practice and develop his own intuition about things. But as far as quantifying it, we are a ways away.

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>>9086721
what about the task of finding a task to complete

>>9086887
Think of it like proteins. How do proteins "know" what to do when they construct an organism? Chemical signaling and the computational procedure defined by DNA taking place in an environment (the womb, the egg). It is the result of a selection process many billions of years old.

With tasks that are to be completed, the environment of selection is the group/community/etc, and the protein is, simplistically, a neural net - an individual human's ideas and experiences. The mathematical community/market place/military designates problems as important, individual humans try their hand at them. And so finding a task to complete has more to do with the environmental demands than the organism (though the ability of the organism is necessary).