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

by romansh ⌂ @, Saturday, August 28, 2010, 17:12 (4961 days ago) @ David Turell

'Person' means a human zygote. 
Is this your definition or some other definition?-> I'm not sure we can or cannot define a newborn as having a rudiment of consciousness, only the potential from future experience. -OK carbon dioxide, water vapour and nitrogen in the air plus some minerals in the ground also have the potential for future experience. Remnants of the big bang plus stardust also have the potential for future experience.-> I'm not a fan of Susan. I've read her book "Dying to Live", with I believe its purposeful misinterpretations of medical reports of out of body and near to death events, observed by licensed physicians, who themselves had been doubters.-> Either she is dishonest in her presentations, or ill-prepared to tackle the subject. Trying to concentrate on being conscious, 'nutty'.
While I agree based on my experience of psychologists, purely in social circles, that they are a little skewed off the median in terms of nuttiness, but for a phychologist to study consciousness (even her own) is not "nutty" in my opinion.-So you disagreed with her premise that when ask ourselves "Am I conscious now?" we seem to awake? If you disagreed with Susan then two possibilities come to mind - either you are in permament conscious state or permament semiconscious state? No doubt there may be other possibilities.-> I'm a firm believer in free will.
I take you are not an agnostic in any shape or form then - not even an agnostic theist?


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