What Exactly IS Intelligence? (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by David Turell , Thursday, August 19, 2010, 16:53 (4992 days ago) @ romansh


> So which is more intelligent an amoeba or a brick? Instinctively I would say an amoeba. But in saying so I'm anthropomorphizing an intent for that amoeba. Do you agree? Both objects react and interact with their environment. Bricks bind with calcium oxide and silica in the cement and amoeba adsorb and metabolize organic nutrients in their environment.-An amoeba has automatisms, instinctual behavior somehow coded in its genome. They do communicate with each other to a degree, chemically. It is difficult to compare inorganic and organic. Crystals multiply but they are not alive. I don't think we can push instincts to the point of calling an amoeba intelligent. My poodle, yes. He knows that I am going out if I put on my hat, and that means crate time for him. Intelligence, and a degree of consciousness. I think intelligence implies a degree of consciousness.