(January 12, 2019 at 8:55 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote:(January 12, 2019 at 7:27 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Isn't it obvious?
If you posit that intelligence requires some super intelligence prior to it, then that super intelligence also requires some super-super intelligence prior to it... and then a super-super-super intelligence... and so on and so forth.
If A is self-sufficient, then how is standard human intelligence not self-sufficient?
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(January 12, 2019 at 8:55 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: If intelligence requires a regression of super intelligence, then I guess that kills the idea of a primordial soup that assumes non-intelligence to intelligence. If not, how would it have developed intelligence? It would've needed a superior source.
Did you miss the fact that I was in the IF clause that contained a super-intelligence generating our intelligence?
This IF clause automatically assumed that this primordial soup was not the cause for intelligence, doesn't it?
But, in the primordial soup scenario, intelligence would be a product of evolution. It is possible to find degrees of intelligence in other animals, from dolphins to dogs, to crows, to cats... We humans just happen to be seemingly the top intelligent beings on this planet.
(January 12, 2019 at 8:55 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: Anyway...
It was sufficient, but corrupted. Kinda like a computer program getting a virus. The program may have been fine, but when a virus alters its function, it can become dysfunctional. In other words, man made a choice to alter that sufficiency.
Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Of course I think you know what happens next. They did it anyway.
It was sufficient based on a direct relationship with God.
Yes, I get it... according to the belief, human intelligence can't be self-sufficient.
My question was, how is human intelligence not self-sufficient?
