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

by romansh , Wednesday, September 01, 2010, 03:45 (5196 days ago) @ dhw

My bad - typo The Blank Slate-Pinker cites studies based studies on siblings of various kinds that had been separated a birth and had been left with either the birth family or had been adopted. Technically I should have said the "differences" in our behaviour. -
> I am devastated at not getting the prize! I shall report you to the International Philosophical Awards Committee for changing the rules halfway through the game. 
:)
> The question asked is: What exactly IS intelligence? The answer has to be a definition. You are now asking an entirely different question: at what point does a person qualify as being intelligent? You more or less accepted my definition of consciousness as a state in which one is awake, aware of oneself, and aware of what is going on around oneself. You didn't challenge it by asking at what point does a baby become aware of itself: two seconds after birth, two months, two years, first cry, first laugh, first word? We don't know. Similarly, you can't pin intelligence down to a specific point at which "no" turns into "yes". But that doesn't invalidate the definition. I want my prize!-This is exactly my point. So is there a point at which we are conscious and another where we are not, and a point where we are intelligent and another where we are not intelligent but simply can't measure it? Or are you suggesting that this concept of "yes-no" is ridiculous?