I saw a comment higher up the list to the effect that "if you can have intelligence without consciousness, Darwin was wrong". Clearly evolutionary examples show you can have intelligence without consciousness - the development of organisms encodes intelligent responses to the environment.
On 28 November 2014 at 10:35, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26 November 2014 at 22:52, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You need consciousness to develop intelligence, and you need intelligence >> to develop competence. >> > > IN my humble opinion you don't need consciousness to develop intelligence. > Large parts of our own brains behave intelligently - e.g. processing visual > images - without being conscious. Evolution has developed (relatively) > intelligent behaviour in animals and plants that are probably not > conscious. The immune response is certainly more intelligent (in terms of > keeping the organism containing it alive) than letting diseases kill it, > but I doubt it involves consciousness. > > -- 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.
