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From: jcz@sas.UUCP (John Carl Zeigler)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Re: language, thought, and culture
Message-ID: <373@sas.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 00:16:50 GMT
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Reply-To: jcz@sas.UUCP (John Carl Zeigler)
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Keywords: thought modalities


Another way to define intelligence as the quality of being able
to wonder if anything else is intelligent.

Trivia Quiz:  Who was the philosopher who posed that
dualism was observed when you could wonder what it was like to
be something.   That is, What is it like to be a brick vs.
what is it like to be a dog.    Things that you could
in fact imagine yourself to experience yourself being were
"alive", "cognizant", or "intelligent".    Other things weren't,
thus dualism was demonstrated.

BTW, my cat can't speak, but he does have moods,
and he can communicate them pretty effectively.

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--jcz
John Carl Zeigler
SAS Institute Inc.
Cary, NC  27511           (919) 467-8000        ...!mcnc!rti!sas!jcz