In a message dated 2/26/2000 11:01:40 PM Pacific Standard Time,
rsunley@escape.ca writes:
<< To denigrate the weakening of the definition of intelligence >
You keep saying 'including abilities denigrates, or weakens intelligence'.
Explain how this happens. I see no reason that adding other abilities to
intelligence somehow magically waters mathematical / verbal abstract symbolic
reasoning down. It doesn't makes that behavior less valuable, inherently, it
just raises other behaviors up. That's like saying if other people get
taller, you'll be shorter.
Two, you also assert "the universal all-importance of symbolic reasoning".
Are you asserting that the universe has an interest in this particular
value? (or perhaps you are in communication with other, more advanced
civilizations, on the planet Xeroc who have unlocked the chemistry of the
brain in advance of our limited efforts here on earth; -)
On the other hand, explain why empiricism would be less ridiculous a notion
in a notoriously soft science such as behavioral development, or psychology
in general? Finally at this point in history, perhaps empirical evidence
begins to dribble in about the brain's workings, but for now it isn't yet
time to claim we have empirical knowledge of the mind, yet. Soon ... soon...
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