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

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Thursday, August 19, 2010, 12:02 (4993 days ago) @ romansh

What is intelligence?
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> Well I would argue it is whatever we define it to be.-Well, theoretically nearly all things we call knowledge fall right under this category. Most knowledge is relative, inferred from something else. Intelligence is similarly elusive.-> But I suspect this is not a helpful answer.
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> 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.
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> 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. 
> -This is a useful definition from a scientific perspective--at first glance; probably one of the best I've seen yet. But it does allow for some silly formulations. How would you rate one subject being more intelligent than another? Or better yet, how would you rate something like musical or artistic intelligence, when they arise from a stimulus that cannot be verified by a third party? Even the definition you provide misses a great deal of things that we have come to accept to be human intelligence.

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