Clever Corvids: using tools (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, September 09, 2015, 14:29 (3144 days ago) @ dhw


> DAVID: One cannot tell the difference between using intelligence and following intelligent information they have been given. Example: I wanted to be a physician, but could not intelligently act in that role until I had the training (given to me) to then perform intelligent acts as a physician.
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> dhw: An excellent analogy. Thanks to your intelligence, you were able to absorb and process all the information necessary for your role and then use it appropriately. You are not an automaton. Thanks to their intelligence, bacteria are able to absorb and process all the information necessary for their role and then use it appropriately. They are not automatons.-But you haven't challenged the point of my analogy: one cannot tell the difference. On the outside looking in there are always the two possibilities, and you always pick one only, while seeing both. I do the same, but based on other biological situations I've mentioned over and over.