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

by romansh ⌂ @, Thursday, August 19, 2010, 16:10 (4971 days ago) @ xeno6696

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.-It's from a computing professor at George Washington University, I'll have to read his book. So it is a scientific definition, you are right; is this inappropriate for this kind of discussion?-I don't actually think the formulations are silly - despite the prospect of ever so slightly intelligent bricks. But it does give us a different perspective on our place in the universe (if we have one at all?)-So which is more intelligent an amoeba or a brick? Instinctively I would say an amoeba. But in saying so I'm anthropomorphizing an intent for that amoeba. Do you agree? Both objects react and interact with their environment. Bricks bind with calcium oxide and silica in the cement and amoeba adsorb and metabolize organic nutrients in their environment.


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