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Politics : Should God be replaced?

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To: LLCF who wrote (24028)	6/20/2006 6:15:43 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) of 28931

"Intelligence is an awareness of reason. Reason is observed as logical nature and is an endowment of the conscious observer. The awareness of reason and ability to deal with reason may be measurable as a function of intelligence." I have used the following analogy for other applications, it is very adaptable. We'll call it the 'irrational rain drop and irrational tree meet the rational rain drop and the rational tree.' A rain drop or a tree are irrational. They do not have the ability to observe and consciously understand the logical existence of each other. In this example a rational rain drop has the ability to observe only that which is a natural endowment of rain drops (H20), as it exists in other forms and the tree has the potential to understand only that which is natural to the tree as it exists in other forms. Neither is self aware. The tree can not live without moisture (H20). The tree is endowed with moisture in it's own life processes like of absorbtion through cell walls etc. We can give either the role of observer. If the rain drop observes the life process of the tree it will have the ability to recognise the existence of H20 in the various life processes of the tree. The rain drop will not be able to observe photosynthesis, etc in the tree because the rain drop is not endowed with photosynthetic aspects of existence. Likewise, when we give the tree the role of observer, it becomes aware of rain drops because it is endowed with properties of H20 and so is able to intelligently understand the object of its observation. Where does the logic of H20 exist, it exists in both the tree and the drop. If the drop cannot observe the moisture of the tree it has no awareness of H20. If the tree cannot observe the rain drop it has no awareness of H20. Intelligence requires that both the observed and the aware observer exist, or intelligence does not exist ... only the potential of intelligence. Reason cannot exist without observation and it must exist as an endowment of both the observer and the observed. We can be intelligent because we are observing that which is intelligible. Intelligence is ubiquitous.

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