[MD] expanded list Platt

[Horse]

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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