(April 10, 2014 at 8:31 pm)Heywood Wrote: New research suggests that intelligence tries to maximize the diversity of future options. If God only allowed us to make "good choices" it would be an act of limiting our future options thereby making us less intelligent.
So this could be renamed the Problem of Intelligence?
(April 10, 2014 at 8:31 pm)Heywood Wrote: Better to be smart and capable of evil then dumb and only capable of good.Is it? I suppose if we figure things like intelligence leading to good medical advancements, that's certainly nice, but if you're saying that not being smart would keep us from killing each other, I don't think you have such a clear-cut case.