1st December 2005, 10:05 AM
I'd rather be Socrates unsatisfied than a pig satisfied...
And do you speak simply of self-awareness? Indeed, I'd rather be me than a mere calculator, or telescope. However, the thing about it is self-awareness is a direct consequence of being an intelligent being. Everything we've observed leads to that conclusion, that being self aware is a PART of intelligence. So, intelligence is justified, and being aware, being capable of understanding it rather than a meaningless volume of data that no one can be aware of, is what intelligence IS. You can't be intelligent without awareness.
You speak of "emotional intellect". What exactly is that?
And do you speak simply of self-awareness? Indeed, I'd rather be me than a mere calculator, or telescope. However, the thing about it is self-awareness is a direct consequence of being an intelligent being. Everything we've observed leads to that conclusion, that being self aware is a PART of intelligence. So, intelligence is justified, and being aware, being capable of understanding it rather than a meaningless volume of data that no one can be aware of, is what intelligence IS. You can't be intelligent without awareness.
You speak of "emotional intellect". What exactly is that?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)