Philosophy Lexicon of Arguments
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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. _____________ Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.
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McGinn, Colin   Books on Amazon	Intelligence	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. _____________ Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution.	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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