An amoeba or a plant is no more intelligent than a spring that expands
when you attach a weight or atoms of hydrogen and oxygen displaying
'intelligence' by combining to form a water molecule. Part of the reason
for saying that a cell or whatever having intelligence is to muddy the
waters between intelligence and intellect which is part of the mangling
of the MoQ necessary to substantiate the idea that SOM is the entirety
of the Intellectual level. Notice how some folks that attribute
intelligence to a cell will also hotly deny group intelligence. The same
will also deny that a machine could ever become intelligent but if
they're composed of intelligent components then they must also be
intelligent. Just because something appears to learn because we
anthropomorphise it's behaviour doesn't mean it's intelligent.
Intelligence is a characteristic of intellect which is attributable to
Intellectual patterns of value and is part of a hierarchical system we
discuss here called the MoQ. Odd that some people tend to forget this
when it suits!
Horse
On 27/04/2010 22:31, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote:
Importantly as well, ask what are the characteristics of intelligence that make
such a statement plausible. Is an amoeba "intelligent" because it pulls away
from acid? What about a sunflower that turns to the sun? (As you say). If one
but not the other, why?
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