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

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Friday, August 27, 2010, 21:15 (5201 days ago) @ romansh

Romansh,
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> I noticed some comments on consciousness; so here is Susan Blackmore's observation on her personal consciousness. - Am I conscious now?
> http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/Books/Tenzen/question1.htm
> -Excellent link. Reminds me of my Buddhist years--maintaining this mental state is exactly what the practice of Buddhism is all about. -> I found this to be a reasonable approximation as to how I perceive consciousnss, though I did not try achieve consciousness all the time like Blackmore tried.
> -It is something that I practiced for 6 years--and really--I still DO practice. (That kind of training doesn't leave you.) I highly recommend it; it lets me get quite a bit done in a day. -> Also some of the answers posted here to me imply that we must have free will? Am I being intelligent in my observation?-I still follow a fairly Buddhist version of consciousness, I agree with this implication fully. It is our ability to be aware of and "consciously" carrying out an action that separates us from everything else we've observed.

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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.\"