04-26-2009, 04:37 PM
Good points.
Intelligence is often equated with rational thought. Our thoughts can understand a philosophical system. But with it our being does not necessarily understand the full extend of the reality that this system describes.
If you're a programmer you know the other way goes as well. It's often trivial to do something yourself, but hard to explain to another, or a machine in this case, how to do it. If our naive understanding of something were one on one with rational understanding we'd never have this problem. How do you recognize a face?
So intelligence is a spectrum, we're all sensitive to different colors on this spectrum, smart in different ways. When we become more sensitive to more levels of the spectrum we are advancing as beings.
Intelligence is often equated with rational thought. Our thoughts can understand a philosophical system. But with it our being does not necessarily understand the full extend of the reality that this system describes.
If you're a programmer you know the other way goes as well. It's often trivial to do something yourself, but hard to explain to another, or a machine in this case, how to do it. If our naive understanding of something were one on one with rational understanding we'd never have this problem. How do you recognize a face?
So intelligence is a spectrum, we're all sensitive to different colors on this spectrum, smart in different ways. When we become more sensitive to more levels of the spectrum we are advancing as beings.