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

by David Turell , Thursday, August 19, 2010, 20:05 (5209 days ago) @ romansh


> I'd like to nail down a definition of intelligence before we even tackle a "universal intelligence".
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> I suppose I'm angling for a position where everything has an intelligence, but somethings have a much better quality of intelligence, at least by our lights.
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> Need a better term than "better quality", but I think you get my drift.-I think I would define intelligence as the ability to have a short series of related or interrelated observations and/or concepts. That removes the instincts of the amoeba, but my poodle and the hat demonstrates a series of observations and conclusions. He shows a degree of intelligence, but not very much consciousness.