1st December 2005, 3:52 PM
What the fish....?
A brick does not eat, a brick does not run from danger, a brick does not seek an environment that can properly sustain it, a brick does not alter behavior based on anything effecting it, a brick is not alive, a brick does not reproduce, a brick does not work with others like it to sustain a larger life form.
To say such things, that a single celled organism has no intelligence or self-awareness, by that nature alone would not be able to use its own materials and structure to create multi-celled organisms to anything from viruses to a human being. The fact that a unicell organism absorbs another and divides itself in to a human being in the womb proves that. Countless studies of the introduction of stimuli in to single celled cultures has shown that they react in much the same way that any life on Earth does... and what is this about a single celled organism not having a simple brain? How can it be alive, or die, or carry out its functions or reproduce without one?
Either you dont want to think of cells as alive (thus self aware) or you haven't studied cell structure. Anything that is alive is self-aware.
Here is what dictionary.com had to say about intelligence:
Main Entry: in·tel·li·gence
Pronunciation: in-'tel-&-j&n(t)s
Function: noun
1 a : the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations b : the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (as tests)
2 : mental acuteness —in·tel·li·gent /in-'tel-&-j&nt/ adjective —in·tel·li·gent·ly adverb
Here's what they say about emotion:
Main Entry: emo·tion
Pronunciation: i-'mO-sh&n
Function: noun
1 : the affective aspect of consciousness
Now here's my take on it:
Intelligence is the use of knowledge.
1.) To use fact to formulate new fact
2.) To use fact to destroy misconception or old (false) ideals
3.) To record factual information for future generations
Knowledge is stagnant, unmoving until...
Emotional intelligence is how that knowledge is used.
1.) Thinking 'out of the box'
2.) Finding the correct core or direction that does not apply to logic but instead is based in emotion
3.) The use of imagination in light of factual information to break new ground and press forward with fresh ideals
See: Hope, dream, wish, what if, etc
See: Socrates, Newton, Da Vinci, Einstein, etc
There are BILLIONS of intelligent people on Earth, there are colleges filled with individuals with 200+ IQ's and yet we only have a handful of truly amazing people who single-handedly changed the world forever? If it's not the ideal of intelligence and imagination, then what is it? Studies show that people great at math suck with anything artistic and vice versa... what about the people who dont work that way? Einstein was horrible at math and he loved to draw and doodle or build things out of blocks and he created his OWN MATH he even said that the imagination is key to human achievement, imagine if IQ had nothing to do with the ability to invent and create or even ...be a genius? There seems to be alot of stuff suggesting that i'm on to something...
And I dont understand why you're so apprehensive accepting it or atleast allowing the idea to make its point before you start comparing it to bricks again. :D
A brick does not eat, a brick does not run from danger, a brick does not seek an environment that can properly sustain it, a brick does not alter behavior based on anything effecting it, a brick is not alive, a brick does not reproduce, a brick does not work with others like it to sustain a larger life form.
To say such things, that a single celled organism has no intelligence or self-awareness, by that nature alone would not be able to use its own materials and structure to create multi-celled organisms to anything from viruses to a human being. The fact that a unicell organism absorbs another and divides itself in to a human being in the womb proves that. Countless studies of the introduction of stimuli in to single celled cultures has shown that they react in much the same way that any life on Earth does... and what is this about a single celled organism not having a simple brain? How can it be alive, or die, or carry out its functions or reproduce without one?
Either you dont want to think of cells as alive (thus self aware) or you haven't studied cell structure. Anything that is alive is self-aware.
Here is what dictionary.com had to say about intelligence:
Main Entry: in·tel·li·gence
Pronunciation: in-'tel-&-j&n(t)s
Function: noun
1 a : the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations b : the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (as tests)
2 : mental acuteness —in·tel·li·gent /in-'tel-&-j&nt/ adjective —in·tel·li·gent·ly adverb
Here's what they say about emotion:
Main Entry: emo·tion
Pronunciation: i-'mO-sh&n
Function: noun
1 : the affective aspect of consciousness
Now here's my take on it:
Intelligence is the use of knowledge.
1.) To use fact to formulate new fact
2.) To use fact to destroy misconception or old (false) ideals
3.) To record factual information for future generations
Knowledge is stagnant, unmoving until...
Emotional intelligence is how that knowledge is used.
1.) Thinking 'out of the box'
2.) Finding the correct core or direction that does not apply to logic but instead is based in emotion
3.) The use of imagination in light of factual information to break new ground and press forward with fresh ideals
See: Hope, dream, wish, what if, etc
See: Socrates, Newton, Da Vinci, Einstein, etc
There are BILLIONS of intelligent people on Earth, there are colleges filled with individuals with 200+ IQ's and yet we only have a handful of truly amazing people who single-handedly changed the world forever? If it's not the ideal of intelligence and imagination, then what is it? Studies show that people great at math suck with anything artistic and vice versa... what about the people who dont work that way? Einstein was horrible at math and he loved to draw and doodle or build things out of blocks and he created his OWN MATH he even said that the imagination is key to human achievement, imagine if IQ had nothing to do with the ability to invent and create or even ...be a genius? There seems to be alot of stuff suggesting that i'm on to something...
And I dont understand why you're so apprehensive accepting it or atleast allowing the idea to make its point before you start comparing it to bricks again. :D