Questions tagged [intelligence]
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Is color a hallucination?
This is a continuation of my last question in which I showed that color does not exist in reality but only in our perceptions. So I ask, is seeing something which does not exist not classified as ...
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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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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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What did Poincaré mean by intuition of pure number?
To what does Poincaré refer in his article Intuition and Logic in mathematics when he speaks about the intuition of pure number? He refers also to two other forms of intuition, besides the "...
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Einstein on induction [closed]
Einstein says here
the researcher always starts out from facts, whose mutual
connections are his aim, he does not find his system of ideas in a
methodical, inductive way
Surely, I am thinking, ...
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Minima Moralia.127: "Intelligence is a moral category"
Minima Moralia is a collection of aphorisms by the (individualist) Marxist inspired philosophy Theodor Adorno, who was probably most famous (outside philosophy) for strident attacks on the culture ...
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Tomatoes, Wisdom and Intelligence?
A lighthearted topic after I came across this funny quote:
Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put tomatoes in a fruit salad.
This had me wondering what ...
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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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Are "intelligent systems" really intelligent? [closed]
For the scope of this question, let's consider an intelligent system as something with the properties of accomplishing some kind of goal(s). By this definition, all people are technically intelligent ...
