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

by romansh ⌂ @, Thursday, September 02, 2010, 02:05 (4957 days ago) @ dhw
edited by unknown, Thursday, September 02, 2010, 02:18

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. 
dhw
This is not quite what I meant - my apologies. My question is there a line between intellgent/non-intelligent or conscious/unconscious in a human being's development? If your answer is I don't know fair enough, for I don't either. But in that case could it extend to before conception? My answer of course is I also don't know. But this line of reasoning extends to my professor's definition?-
> 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. -In pragmatic everyday conversations it would be conscious and unconscious behaviours/actions/choices etc. But with careful reflection I suspect I might not distinguish between the two.-> I would also be interested to know precisely why you are not prepared to accept my definition of intelligence.-I have no great dislike or great philosophical objection. If I were to argue against your definition: you are replacing one imponderable (intelligence) with another (consciousness)?-> dhw - Despite Pinker's figure of 40% to 50%, I don't see how we can quantify escapable and inescapable influences ... which is a typically agnostic way of saying I don't know to what extent our will is free.-My background as a chemist has shown me the law of mass action
> The product of the apparent concentrations of the products divided by the product of the apparent concentrations is equal to a constant
has shown me that it is an accurate predictor of behaviour of molecules. Now which bit of me is not described the law of mass action? This is where free will would have to reside. Unless someone can point to another place because I cannot envisage something else!


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