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

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Friday, August 20, 2010, 01:34 (5208 days ago) @ dhw

dhw,
> The starting point of this thread was Matt's question concerning a Universal Intelligence "wholly different" from ours ... in contrast to my own view that if there is such a thing as a UI, its intelligence will be much the same as ours but immeasurably more advanced. -AH! AH!! STOP RIGHT THERE!!!-This is exactly what I wanted from this thread in the first place!-dhw, ignore my excitement for a moment, and ponder the question:-"What would make an intelligence immeasurably more advanced?"

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"