On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 , Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree that consciousness is not intelligence. >
I agree also. > An entity can be competent, without intelligence [...] An entity can be > intelligent, without competence > I don't understand the distinction, but I do know that competence means having the skill and knowledge to get the job done, so what's the point of "intelligence"? As far as survival is concerned (and getting genes into the next generation is the only thing Evolution is concerned with) Intelligence, whatever you mean by the word, would be as useless as consciousness. So now you've doubled the number of mysteries you need to explain, not only do you need to explain why Evolution invented consciousness you can't even explain why it invented Intelligence. > I insist also to distinguish intelligence from competence. > Then please do so. I'm all ears. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
