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  • didirius replied to the topic Is Reality “Intelligent”? in the forum Science and Technology 3 years, 6 months ago

    @citizenschallengev4

    I copy the use of ā€œinteligentā€, because i see it to be apropriate.

    Why you see repeating a typo appropriate?

    I reffered to:

    I’m putting ā€œintelligenceā€ in quotes in recognition that what we call intelligence is an extremely local phenomena. It’s a useful concept at human scale when comparing, say, humans and donkeys. But human scale is infinitely small in comparison to reality itself.

    I don’t know what word would describe a universal phenomena, a property of reality itself, which would result in something as small as bacteria acting in an intelligent manner, or a process like evolution proceeding in a manner which we would label intelligent if we invented it. So I’m calling such a proposed universal property ā€œintelligenceā€ until we find a better word for it. – Tanny

    ā€œMainly biologicā€ – seriously?

    What about the first nine billion years of matter and the Universe?

    Or mineral evolution here on Earth, (although biology did join in on that process rather early on)?

    “Mainly” because of its original and most common use to explain the evolution of biological species. – Shouldn’t exclude the way how all other things behave acording to the laws of physics.

    Seems a bit contrived. I like ā€œevolution is cumulative change over timeā€ – short and to the point.

    I wanted to be precisely; I didn’t know that “cumulative change over timeā€ would be sole accauted for evolution.

    How’s that? Using evolution to describe the phenomenon of ā€œgodā€ ? Or?

    No. If the laws of physics would be caused by ā€œintelligenceā€ then this ā€œintelligenceā€ came closest to the description of what the term a “god” stands for, as far I know. Doesn’t mean that it would be a god, just the closest to fit a terms definition.