Questions tagged [intelligence]
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What is the relationship between consciousness and intelligence?
Some philosophers say that consciousness is all about experiences, feelings, etc.
Can we say that intelligence is also an experience or feeling making it one of the outcomes of consciousness
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Is every intelligence a collection?
Is every intelligence a collection? Obviously 'general intelligence' is a collection of abilities, a statistical entity that is a measure of ability "in general". What about musical ...
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Can an intellect judge itself?
Suppose you want to measure the length of something, e.g. the length of a kitchen table. It's not an easy task, but luckily you have a meter stick on hand! So you take your meter stick and make your ...
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Intelligence as a prerequisite for consciousness/sentience?
Google engineer Blake Lemoine recently made headlines by claiming that he thought Google's LaMDA conversational AI was sentient, based on his interactions with it. (E.g.: https://www.wired.com/story/...
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Is wisdom one type of intelligence, or distinct from it?
I asked this question on the psychology stack exchange, but was told this would be a better stack exchange for it. I subscribe to the theory that there are multiple types of intelligence. Is wisdom ...
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Relationship between intelligence, thinking and knowledge [closed]
A quick google search defines intelligence as "the ability to acquire and apply knowledge" and thinking as "the process of considering or reasoning about something"
What is the relationship between ...
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Is there a fundamental difference between hypothetical explanations in sociology and natural sciences?
According to Explanandum and Explanans on Wikipedia:
An explanandum (a Latin term) is a sentence describing a phenomenon
that is to be explained, and the explanans are the sentences adduced
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Can one pursue knowledge without their own personal perspective?
In my opinion, the pursuit of knowledge is directly linked the the individual pursuing it, and their perspective is crucial in the process.
However, would anyone have an argument to why an individual ...
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What is the general relationship between Intelligence and Information?
I will take the definition of "information" used in the field of Information Theory, which according to my understanding of Information Theory, information is the loss of uncertainty(e.g. while a coin ...
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Is the study of IQ an example of greedy reductionism?
Is the study of IQ an example of greedy reductionism?
greedy reductionism occurs when "in their eagerness for a bargain, in
their zeal to explain too much too fast, scientists and philosophers
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Free Will and Intelligence
What is the relation between free will and intelligence.
I'll identify free will with conscious mind and wonder what their relation is.
Obviously there is free will without intelligence. Just have a ...
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How to define intelligence amongst animals [closed]
In the comments section of this article: Humans can recognize and understand chimpanzee and bonobo gestures, a few philosophical questions came up which have redirected me here. Could you please shed ...
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Is there a clear, objective difference between intelligence in the arts and the sciences? [closed]
Often, when referring to whether or not person A is "smart", discussion about Person A's political stance or their appreciation—or not—of art becomes part of the conversation.
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How would the dynamics of discourse change if your interlocutor were a superintelligent being?
The problems I see here:
The super-smart being might know so much more that humans feel they can't add anything useful to the talk. This being might find it hard to explain things simply, making it ...
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Are we biologically limited from knowing the universe?
Consider the relationship between a human and a dog.
A dog can be very intelligent or not very much. Border Collie is considered to be the most intelligent dog breed in the world, while Afgan Hound ...
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