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Tao Stoic 30

"When you spoke of pseudologists who do not define, therefore mean everything by their terms, I felt uncomfortable."

"Why was that Leer Ling?"

"You said: 'as we do in the terms Mind and idea."

"Oh, I see. But this is different because the 'everything' is really meant as such. We define Mind as: 'Everything making an inanimate body from cell to humans, alive', and ideation as: 'Everything that goes on in a Mind.' By this, we have divided the total Reality in two, incommensurate parts; the living and the non-living.

On the other hand, we define intelligence as: 'that what is more than pure animal and vegetative function. We call it the 3rd degree of freedom. The plants having 1, animals have 1 and 2, but humans have 1, 2, and an extra choice, a choice over ideas. Therefore, machines, plants, and animals 'cannot' be called intelligent at all, not in the smallest degree. When, now, pseudologists let anything be intelligent, it is not even a 'life, Mind' function because machines are included. Even then, they would need a term plus its proper definition of 'That what makes men more than animals'." [18], [20], [36]


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