Regret, do you believe as the Bible teaches that Jesus Christ has always existed and that (in His incarnation only) He was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary (who was a virgin at the time)?
Well then which defenition better defines intelligence. This is what this whole argument is about.
The Golden Gate Bridge and a plank across a creek may serve the same purpose, but they are not the same. And clearly one is a bridge where the other is really not.
The comparison of salt concentrations is a chemical process. There is nothing really intelligent about it. Comparing Communism and Socialism....that is a sign of intellignece.
With regard to the above, may I repeat an earlier post...
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"If we limit 'intelligence' to an organism willfully using subjective 'as ifs' as a means of understanding and controlling the objective world--applying mental maps--then we refer to organisms with differentiated mapping systems: nervous systems. This differentiation allows the organism to get perspective (however vague or clear-cut) on its own subjective experience so that willful deployment of maps can occur. Along this vein, bacteria are not intelligent (they have no nervous system), though clearly they have the capacity to be aware of and adapt to their environment thanks to far simpler biomolecular processes.
In a nutshell: you don't have to be intelligent to learn, just aware, because intelligence encompasses more than just learning from the past. It also involves anticipating the future, especially if you do something to bring about a desired outcome."
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As used elsewhere in this thread, this is why I don't think "intelligence" is the appropriate term.
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Holy Mary Mother of God! Jesus age Christ! Don't you have ANYTHING! else to say? You keep repeating yourself and repeating yourself. We get it! People don't like to be preached at, contrary to how you might have been raised to believe.
Ush did a fine job by closing his last redundant thread. If you guys just ignore him and the mods keep closing his new threads, maybe he'll stfu.
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...and awareness is a property of all biological macormolecules. Proteins fold naturally into their active state. All they need to do this is to be placed in H20. That is sensing the environment and reacting to it, but its clearly not intelligence.
You can call it what ever you want, but it has to be a group effort. Because I put Jackie on my ignore list too, and everyone keeps quoting her. So I have to read her verbal diarrhea anyway.
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Oct 9th, 2006 02:30 AM
. So I made up an acronym for it.
