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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  I don't know many people who'd define intelligence as "knowing what to do and then not doing it."
Would you consider a robot who made such claims to be highly intelligent?
Talking about the intelligence you can't apply is like bragging about a car you can't drive. |
My concept of intelligence has to do with my problem solving skills, my creativity, my ability to think about a problem from different angles. In an ideal set of circumstances (say, the Starship Enterprise), I wouldn't have to worry about all of the practical problems like "funding" and "feeding myself", and I could simply work on the scientific problem. Most people don't have a very good concept of what intelligence is, which is why people like Einstein were thought of as stupid by their peers and the world until they were able to prove everybody wrong with tangible ideas.
What keeps me from acting is damaging beliefs that lie beneath the subconscious surface that prevent me from acting on higher impulses (like the desire to create technology), via emotional mechanisms like fear. A robot, in the classical sense, lacks all emotion and does what it's programmed to do, in a linear fashion. That is why the terms robot and intelligent and antithetical in my book.
The main thing I lack is the software required to take care of all of the practical, physical, and emotional concerns so I can go back to focusing on what is really important to me. I like to think of myself as irrational (controlled by emotion), rather than unintelligent.