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Unread 04/13/2007, 11:42 PM   #10
justinl
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intelligence is a layman's term. I think biologists ime avoid that word when they can. there is the question of how efficiently the brain is used. does it learn? how good is memory? complex behavioural or social expressions?

it's sorta like asking what the strongest muscle in the body. could be the heart for endurance. could be the togue which is technically a group of muscles. there are other candidates for that particular question.

we cannot compare to anything out there because all other life depends so heavily on physical attributes like opposing thumbs, rapts, streamlined shape, etc etc. humans on the other hand depend almost exclusively on "intelligence." so of course we are the most "intelligent" but it also isolates usfrom everyone else.


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