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| Intelligence: intelligence is the ability to recognize patterns in presented information or to recognize possibilities for supplementing and transforming known patterns that go beyond repetitions. | |||
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II 52 Intelligence/McGinn: the newer doctrine emphasizes three characteristics: plant, moldability, adaptation. We do not learn to own arms, legs and kidneys. ((s) but we learn to develop our muscles). Intelligence is always at or for something. The ability to achieve the organism goals. --- II 57 Human/Evolution/mind/McGinn: it is a remarkable coincidence that we are the only species on earth that is able to drive science and philosophy. There could easily be a different species with a certain level of scientific talent, about the level of a ten year-old. Or a species that is superior in biology but inferior in physics etc. The kind of intelligence that we have, is absolutely not necessary for living beings to survive. |
McG I C. McGinn Die Grenzen vernünftigen Fragens Stuttgart 1996 McG II C. McGinn Wie kommt der Geist in die Materie? München 2001 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2017-05-29