but they want you to explain your position that intelligence is a component of the universe. — schopenhauer1
Wiki: Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. More generally, it can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context. — jgill
You haven't done any philosophy here. Philosophy is about argument and rational justification for beliefs. — bert1
You don't have to have one, but then you should be quiet, — bert1
Coming out from under anesthesia one may be partially conscious for a period, — jgill
...recognizing a friend but unable to put thoughts together.
Emerging from a deep sleep there may be a short period of partial consciousness, an inability to synchronize sensory input or think clearly. Before my daily two cups of coffee I am only partly conscious, unable to dredge up names to match faces, etc.
No. That's for undergrads who think they're masters because they know some names. — jacksonsprat22
There can also be additional forces and dimensions in the universe that we cannot detect easily. Right now, the brain is one such device which bridges the gap between mental and physical. But you could possibly also build some kind of sensor that can pick up on mental energy. Elementary particles may have a mental energy field around them which is not easy to see without sufficiently advanced tools. — bizso09
If you want to be a panpsychist, the best way to do so is to attack emergentism as hard as you can. If you can say that emergentism isn't true, and that consciousness is real, then you can say that consciousness is fundamental. — Pneumenon
But there is an historic aspect of all this barely touched on. The ancient Greeks attributed such order as they found in nature to "mind." To go further would require some understanding of what they meant by "nature" and by "mind." But even without that we can observe that these were presuppositions of Greek thinking. That is, their presuppositions grounded there suppositions enabling them to think and theorize about both nature and mind. — tim wood
What do you think philosophy is about? — bert1
When speaking of thinking remote from your own - or at least my own - with modern words, I find it prudent sometimes to put those words in quotes. Or the use the Greek itself, νούς, as a warning to think with care. Is it matter and form? No.Are you saying anywhere they saw order, they thought mind was involved? Is this like matter and form? — schopenhauer1
You last year? You're a junior now? A poem for you:An interest in how the world is. Arguing is for sophomores. — jacksonsprat22
If you want to be a panpsychist, the best way to do so is to attack emergentism as hard as you can. If you can say that emergentism isn't true, and that consciousness is real, then you can say that consciousness is fundamental. — Pneumenon
But there is an historic aspect of all this barely touched on. The ancient Greeks attributed such order as they found in nature to "mind." — tim wood
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