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

by dhw, Wednesday, September 01, 2010, 14:50 (4979 days ago) @ romansh

In response to the question that forms the subject of this thread, I have offered what I would like to believe is a clear definition. However, I have not been awarded the Prix de Romansh, and instead have been asked:-"So is there a point at which we are conscious and another where we are not, and a point at which we are intelligent and another where we are not intelligent but simply can't measure it? Or are you suggesting that this concept of "yes-no" is ridiculous?"-I'm mystified as to why you think I might regard it as ridiculous. You have quoted my response, and then ignored it! I wrote (about consciousness): "We don't know. Similarly, you can't pin intelligence down to a specific point at which "no" turns into "yes"." -However, since you won't accept "we don't know" as an answer (I will happily change that to "I don't know" if you prefer it), let me pursue a question I asked earlier and which you did not respond to. How do you distinguish between instinct and intelligence, is there a specific point at which the one turns into the other, and if so where is it? My own answer is that instinctive behaviour is unconscious whereas intelligent behaviour is conscious, but I do not know if there is a specific point at which the one turns into the other. -I would also be interested to know precisely why you are not prepared to accept my definition of intelligence.