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Charlatan, I think we are starting with what we know as "human intelligence" and that's where we are off base. I am not saying something so grand as was implied by lebell. I'm also not saying something so advanced as you state as your understanding of "intelligence." I've endeavored to indicate that it seems to me it is an ordinary aspect of the material and energetic universe - simply an ordering, structuring principle. I don't see any necessary teleology in it, I just see it moving things toward more complexity and ultimately toward life, consciousness, and self-consciousness. It is an attempt to explain where exactly the point is in which matter becomes self-conscious. That this happens is irrefutable. I simply do not see it as magically appearing at a particular instance in time - as if there is no related condition that preceeds it.
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