How does having a higher IQ alter or modify one's behavior? — Shawn
In other words, I.Q is a measurement of behaviour. — VagabondSpectre
An interesting fact is, if theism is false, all the wonders of the universe, including life, especially life that's capable of developing a self-sustaining harmony, an equilibrium, between the various forces that act on it, arose in the complete absence of intelligence. Humans, despite having the highest IQ of any known life, are a far cry from achieving anything like blind chance has on Earth. Doesn't this mean that, in some sense, random throws of a die or a coin exhibits greater [genius-level] intelligence than an actual intelligent being? This is the paradox of intelligence - given the current status quo regarding intelligent life, it can't compete with pure randomness in performance. So much for IQ. — TheMadFool
In my opinion, there's a direct correlation towards IQ and beauty and aesthetics itself. — Shawn
When are you from? — Sarah Connor (Terminator - Dark Fate)
How does having a higher IQ alter or modify one's behavior? — Shawn
You discount the fact that randomness has had a much longer time (four billion years on this planet) to effect change than man has had with his intelligence, which is roughly 100000 years to a million years maximum. This is a ratio of roughly 400,000 to 1.
Now conceptualize that theism is NOT false. In that case it must be true that God had an infinity to think about, plan, and conceptualize actions to come up with creation before he started the project. In this case God with his infinite wisdom compares to randomness rather poorly as an achiever. — god must be atheist
Pure trial-and-error is less efficient than design, of course, but it can be more effective - because it has no qualms about exploring the entirety of the solution space.Doesn't this mean that, in some sense, random throws of a die or a coin exhibits greater [genius-level] intelligence than an actual intelligent being? — TheMadFool
The concept [of evolvable hardware] was pioneered by Adrian Thompson at the University of Sussex, England, who in 1996 used [a field-programmable gate array] to evolve a tone discriminator that used fewer than 40 programmable logic gates, and had no clock signal. This is a remarkably small design for such a device, and relied on exploiting peculiarities of the hardware that engineers normally avoid. For example, one group of gates has no logical connection to the rest of the circuit, yet is crucial to its function.
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