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What is Intelligence?
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<blockquote data-quote="Falkon303" data-source="post: 98339" data-attributes="member: 4848"><p>I feel intelligence is an entirely relative term. If we judge it by ability to adapt, you have to ask yourself if the intelligent choice was somehow *not* having the ability to adapt, what would intelligence be then?</p><p></p><p>I think to expand on the idea of "adaptation to a situation", we can assume that the intention is to attain the most beneficial result from a decision, which is in essence the decision that becomes the attempt at adaptation.</p><p></p><p>To expand on that even more, there is the question of maximum return for an individual versus maximum return for a group based on an adaptive decision. While I am of the belief that we should attempt to benefit everyone, the textbook term "intelligence" refers to an individual, and so we are to wonder if intelligence refers to serving ourselves primarily before others.</p><p></p><p>If we are to believe that intelligence is thinking of our own well-being primarily before others, we can assume that intelligence is relative to survival itself rather than adaptation.</p><p></p><p>The problem with this definition is that the world we live in has many different methods of survival because it is a complex environment. There are many different ways people can survive and adapt because human behavior.</p><p></p><p>If someone becomes an expert con-artist, are they highly intelligent by definition, or are they just skilled in the area of deceit? They have fit the definition of intelligence, yet deceit is morally considered wrong and not generally associated with intelligence, which in my opinion proves that the term is technically relative.</p><p></p><p>More simply put - A farmer is an idiot at a law office, and a lawyer is an idiot on a farm.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Falkon303, post: 98339, member: 4848"] I feel intelligence is an entirely relative term. If we judge it by ability to adapt, you have to ask yourself if the intelligent choice was somehow *not* having the ability to adapt, what would intelligence be then? I think to expand on the idea of "adaptation to a situation", we can assume that the intention is to attain the most beneficial result from a decision, which is in essence the decision that becomes the attempt at adaptation. To expand on that even more, there is the question of maximum return for an individual versus maximum return for a group based on an adaptive decision. While I am of the belief that we should attempt to benefit everyone, the textbook term "intelligence" refers to an individual, and so we are to wonder if intelligence refers to serving ourselves primarily before others. If we are to believe that intelligence is thinking of our own well-being primarily before others, we can assume that intelligence is relative to survival itself rather than adaptation. The problem with this definition is that the world we live in has many different methods of survival because it is a complex environment. There are many different ways people can survive and adapt because human behavior. If someone becomes an expert con-artist, are they highly intelligent by definition, or are they just skilled in the area of deceit? They have fit the definition of intelligence, yet deceit is morally considered wrong and not generally associated with intelligence, which in my opinion proves that the term is technically relative. More simply put - A farmer is an idiot at a law office, and a lawyer is an idiot on a farm. [/QUOTE]
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