On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 , Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > Intelligence is not a question of behavior. >
If so then you have no reason to believe that Einstein was intelligent and you have no reason to believe that a rock is not, and thus "intelligence" joins "God" as being words that convey absolutely no information in your new reformulation of the English language. And "Christianity" and "Atheism" are redundant as they both mean the same thing because one is just a minor offshoot of the other, although I've forgotten which is a offshoot of which. > > Competence is an ability to solve problem. > Like the problem of figuring out how the world works? Somehow I got the strange wacky idea that intelligence means doing intelligent stuff, but the trouble with that definition is that then you'd have to say that computers were intelligent and we can't have that. So let's invent a new word (like competence) that applies only when a machine does intelligent stuff. Do you think we should also invent a new word that only applies when a black man does intelligent stuff? > > That can be tested, notably with exams and things like that. > And things like winning the Nobel Prize in physics. Who needs "intelligence" (whatever the hell that word is supposed to mean in your reformulation of English) if you're competent? > Intelligence is more an abstract ability to learn I said it before I'll say it again, Watson could have never won on Jeopardy if he couldn't learn. Bruno, if we were having this discussion in 1859 long before computers were invented would you be insisting on making this silly distinction between intelligence and competence? Of course not. > or a sort of courage making some person able to change its mind, to > develop new taste, etc. Dictators have far far more of that ability than you or I do or that any scientists has, so was Hitler more intelligent than you or me or Einstein? 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.
