Intelligence means being able to adapt to unknown environments or tasks. If you know everything there is to know then you have no chance to adapt.
You may disagree that this is what intelligence means but think of what the alternative is. IQ tests would be no use if they were also supplied with the answers. You'd just write the answers down and everyone would get the same score. There is a reason why children are not given the answers during exams. If a computer program has all the answers mapped out already then it's not intelligent, it's a simple look-up table.
Even with natural forms of intelligence there needs to be some limit to mapping out all the possibilities of an environment for intelligent decision making to take place.
Feeling our way to decision
So by talking about an omniscient god, if you truly believe that one exists, then it would be more accurate to refer to it as a universal look-up table.
You may disagree that this is what intelligence means but think of what the alternative is. IQ tests would be no use if they were also supplied with the answers. You'd just write the answers down and everyone would get the same score. There is a reason why children are not given the answers during exams. If a computer program has all the answers mapped out already then it's not intelligent, it's a simple look-up table.
Even with natural forms of intelligence there needs to be some limit to mapping out all the possibilities of an environment for intelligent decision making to take place.
Feeling our way to decision
Quote:In his earlier book, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason And The Human Brain, Damasio described trying to set up an appointment with an emotionless patient: alternative dates are suggested and the patient pulls out an appointment book and consults the calendar. For 30 minutes the patient enumerated reasons for and against each of the two dates: previous engagements, possible meteorological conditions, virtually anything that one could reasonably think about. "He was now walking us through a tiresome cost-benefit analysis, an endless outlining and fruitless comparison of options and possible consequences. It took enormous discipline to listen to all of this without pounding on the table and telling him to stop," Damasio wrote.
So by talking about an omniscient god, if you truly believe that one exists, then it would be more accurate to refer to it as a universal look-up table.
