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== Being intelligent ==
 
== Being intelligent ==
  
What is intelligence ?
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=== What is intelligence ? ===
  
"Free" capacity for information processing
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=== "Free" capacity for information processing ===
  
Limits to free accessible intelligence capacity
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=== Limits to free accessible intelligence capacity ===
  
  
 
== Being the most intelligent species on earth ==
 
== Being the most intelligent species on earth ==
  
Having escaped from the ordinary evolutionary upper limit of (free) intelligence
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=== Having escaped from the ordinary evolutionary upper limit of (free) intelligence ===
  
Hardware and software
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=== Hardware and software ===
  
Information, tradition, culture, cumulated knowledge
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=== Information, tradition, culture, cumulated knowledge ===
  
 
== Living in slavery ==
 
== Living in slavery ==

Revision as of 08:38, 10 June 2016

What it means to be human

Being living matter

Self replicating molecules

Catalization of self-replication

Competition for basic building blocks

Being an animal, not a plant

How a plant finds its building materials

How an animal finds its building materials

movement; the trick to change place

perception of the environment

emotions and motivation

Proximate and Ultimate purposes of behaviour (basics of how behaviours evolve)

Being a "group"-animal

Emotions to seek company

Emotions to seek own family or group

Being intelligent

What is intelligence ?

"Free" capacity for information processing

Limits to free accessible intelligence capacity

Being the most intelligent species on earth

Having escaped from the ordinary evolutionary upper limit of (free) intelligence

Hardware and software

Information, tradition, culture, cumulated knowledge

Living in slavery

Losing our ignorance

Surpassing point Omega