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

by romansh , Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 04:56 (5210 days ago) @ xeno6696

What is intelligence?-Well I would argue it is whatever we define it to be.
But I suspect this is not a helpful answer.-Having participated in this debate on another forum I have come to the conclusion intelligence is deeply entwined with the concepts of consciousness, life, free will and no doubt other similar phenomena. OK not terribly helpful so far.-OK how about this as a definition of intelligence
"The ability of an entity to synthesize at least one response that is correlated with at least one stimulus."
It's not my definition but it certainly broadens the scope of what is and is not intelligent. -We end up asking how intelligent is a brick - not whether it is?