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tangent: the definition of intelligence
Do you believe that all things in the universe obey the laws of physics? And your nervous system is made of the same type of stuff as everything else? Therefore, what occurs to you as a thought or a feeling is really just the action of a mechanism which is obeying the laws of physics, right? Unless you have a "soul" or some other supernatural quality, you are a physical object, and "some things just organize because that is the easiest path" as you said. A level of organization above or below your own is not defined as intelligence, simply because you don't understand it. And, it probably feels the same way about you.
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There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there
it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your
expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever
gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio
Last edited by Flint; 11-08-2006 at 03:08 PM.
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