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>From: zirdum@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Antun Zirdum)
Subject: Re: What is Intelligence anyway? (Was: Re: Intelligence, awareness, etc)
Message-ID: <1992May3.190755.21824@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
References: <1992Apr29.025810.10175@highland.oz.au>
Date: Sun, 3 May 1992 19:07:55 GMT
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In article <1992Apr29.025810.10175@highland.oz.au> andrewr@highland.oz.au (Andrew Rothwell) writes:
>in article <1992Apr27.083621.9441@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, zirdum@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Antun Zirdum) says:
>> 
>
>Awareness and intelligence are separable. Meditation will show you this.
>(Aside: Is my ability to focus/enhance my field of attention
>predicated on my being intelligent...? Find out.)
>
I have never seen any evidence that awareness is/can be
seperated from the physical world that one is aware of!
When one is aware, one is aware of something! When they
are aware of nothing they are NOT conscious. Now the
question becomes can a being be aware of a 'thing' without
being intelligent? If one is aware of a thing then one
presumably knows about that thing that one is aware of,
thus one can use the thing intelligently. Do not attempt
to go any further without answering the above question.

It is obvious to me that a being that can recognize
a thing is INTELLIGENT (to a degree)
To say that one can be aware of something without being
able to recognize or otherwise know about it is pure BS.
(Since I don't want to argue here about what recognition
means I am perfectly willing to use 'know about' as a
replacement!)
>Andrew.


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