Re: Do you agree...
Peace IntelliPhant
Which sense do we use when we think about 7 + 4 = 11 ??
You are right that we need sense, but intelligence is not limited to sense it is based on it ... Let me explain ..
Sense object A and sense object B ...
Flower - colour and scent
Flower colour = object A Flower scent = object B
Intelligent object C is the object that associates Sense object A with Sense object B.
In another scenario we have acquired Intelligent object D which enables the analysis of various instances of object C.
What I am getting at is that intelligence is built on sense but not limited to it.
Where did Intelligent object C or object D come from? They would need to be there in the first place for us to be able to arrive at the answers above. If they are there what enables them to be used correctly?
Intelligence and the ability of it has to be linked to the source of provision. i.e. God ... we are inspired all the time to think ...
Adam (AS) was taught the Names of things by God ... this is essential for programming we need to declare our functions, variables and constants. It is our ability to name and assoiciate that makes us special before angels according to the Islamic faith. Just a few thoughts!
Thank you very for your thoughts, your point of view is interesting and fortunately is complementing my argument rather than negating it. Think about numbers, they represent an advanced form of an early sensory perception of things in quantity. In post stone age when human being started raising cattle, they used to compare number of cattle heads with number of stones, a need was realized to somehow “invent” something to be representative of quantity. Your second example is yet another ostensible proof that human being can not think of an unthinkable unless the unthinkable has already been perceived as a physical or a logical entity. Object A, in your second example, inherited the knowledge of color, and object B inherited the information about scent, you did nothing but induced acquired knowledge of two objects into a third one. Let’s do some reverse engineering, let’s define object A , and B as null values, and let’s not compare “null” to be true for anything, would object C be still intelligent?. Variables, constants, and function make sense to the perception of a compiler, and are stored as pieces of “information” to infer around.