On 22 Sep, 17:20, Rex Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:14 AM, 1Z <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 21 Sep, 18:10, Rex Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What is the significance of intelligence in a universe with > >> deterministic laws? > > >> Your performance on any IQ test is not due to your possessing some > >> property called "intelligence", but rather is an inevitable outcome of > >> the universe's initial conditions and governing causal laws. > > > it is of course both > > I guess I'd have to hear your definition of "property" to make any > sense of that. In what sense is it like the properties of charge, > mass, spin, or color?
it's a distinguishing characteristic that is detectable > And in what sense is it different? it's not physically basic > >> Solving a problem correctly is no more impressive or significant than > >> rain falling "correctly". You answer the question in the only way the > >> deterministic laws allow. The rain falls in the only way that the > >> deterministic laws allow. > > > so your actual conclusion is not that intelligence isn't > > intelligence, but that intelligence isn't an achivement > > No, my actual conclusion is the part where I conclude: > > "The word 'intelligence' doesn't refer to anything except the > experiential requirements that the universe places on you as a > consequence of its causal structure." I have no idea what that means -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
