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dazz



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,05:07   

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Fuck, this guy's boring.

At least Gary's funny, with his intelligent molecules, four-legged hippocampus-equipped insects, and McGonagallesque writing style.  Potato just screams I'M RIGHT BECAUSE I SAID SO over and over again.

I have science and I have the best explanation in since I discovered the real intelligence.

If you read all of mys post, my new discovery was the only explanation which could explain if "eating because you are hungry is intelligence or not"!

Gary and all other are all wrong in intelligence, thus, they are NOT reliable!

What are you going to teach to your kids about intelligence? There are 80 definitions of this topic! You have 1/80 chance that you could understand this...but even so, the 1/80 is still wrong!

To know intelligence, you will surely come to me or die without knowing intelligence well..I think the latter will be your experience...

Ridiculous.

"Eating" is such a poorly specific activity that whether it is intelligent or not is moot.

In order to eat, a human must decide when, where, what, and how.  At what point down the scale do we encounter animals (loosely speaking) that sense hunger and immediately consume whatever is present?
There are always intermediate activities, at least at the scale where hunger is felt as such.

You're an absurdist fraud.
It's very amusing to watch you pick and choose what you will respond to.  Somehow it's never the hard issues -- except when all you can do is shout 'shut up!'.
But as everyone, except possibly you, knows, that's not how science works.
I think you know it too, you just pretend so you can continue on your journey of self-glorification and self-aggrandizement, always in the desperate hope that you'll somehow "make it" and become rich and famous.
As if scientific success were measured by riches and fame.

Pathetic.

When I discovered the real intelligence, from that time onward, I felt that I was very blessed since there are probably 50 billions people around the world from 2000 years ago until now, but I was the one who discovered the real intelligence!

It was 1/50,000,000,000! But I did it! Now tell me, I did not glorify nor aggrandize myself..but science had brought me there...little by little...

Probably, I was born to change the course of the world...

There are phrases like these: "eat intelligently" and "eat naturally"...

Thus, you don't have any idea of intelligence an how nature works!

Do you have children?

  
MrIntelligentDesign



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,06:35   

Quote (dazz @ Oct. 14 2015,05:00)
[quote=MrIntelligentDesign,Oct. 14 2015,11:42] [quote=N.Wells,Oct. 13 2015,18:55]Hello again, Edgar,
Comments, please?

   [quote=N.Wells,Oct. 12 2015,19:03]
That's how you debate? This response is a tacit admittance of defeat.

You have nothing to counter our arguments. You lost

DEAL WITH IT

Animals have intelligence?

LOL!

So what are their instincts?

ROFL!!

  
dazz



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,06:42   

Quote (MrIntelligentDesign @ Oct. 14 2015,13:35)
[quote=dazz,Oct. 14 2015,05:00][quote=MrIntelligentDesign,Oct. 14 2015,11:42] [quote=N.Wells,Oct. 13 2015,18:55]Hello again, Edgar,
Comments, please?

   
Quote (N.Wells @ Oct. 12 2015,19:03)

That's how you debate? This response is a tacit admittance of defeat.

You have nothing to counter our arguments. You lost

DEAL WITH IT

Animals have intelligence?

LOL!

So what are their instincts?

ROFL!!

They have both instinct and intelligence, as the evidence shows. The same evidence that also proved you wrong

Why are your books still up for sale? Why haven't you published that retraction? Why haven't you apologized yet?

  
dazz



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,06:45   

Quote (MrIntelligentDesign @ Oct. 14 2015,13:35)
[quote=dazz,Oct. 14 2015,05:00][quote=MrIntelligentDesign,Oct. 14 2015,11:42] [quote=N.Wells,Oct. 13 2015,18:55]Hello again, Edgar,
Comments, please?

   
Quote (N.Wells @ Oct. 12 2015,19:03)

That's how you debate? This response is a tacit admittance of defeat.

You have nothing to counter our arguments. You lost

DEAL WITH IT

Animals have intelligence?

LOL!

So what are their instincts?

ROFL!!

You've run out of answers now that they've all been proved wrong and you're now responding with questions.

Another admittance of defeat.

Do what you have to do and do it now: announce publicly that you were wrong, withdraw your books and apologize

  
NoName



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,07:04   

Quote (MrIntelligentDesign @ Oct. 14 2015,07:35)
[quote=dazz,Oct. 14 2015,05:00][quote=MrIntelligentDesign,Oct. 14 2015,11:42] [quote=N.Wells,Oct. 13 2015,18:55]Hello again, Edgar,
Comments, please?

   
Quote (N.Wells @ Oct. 12 2015,19:03)

That's how you debate? This response is a tacit admittance of defeat.

You have nothing to counter our arguments. You lost

DEAL WITH IT

Animals have intelligence?

LOL!

So what are their instincts?

ROFL!!

Humans are animals.  What grounds do you have for asserting otherwise?  What *evidence* supports any other conclusion?  Even if humans were the only animals to possess intelligence, that does not make them 'non-animals'.

Humans have instincts and intelligence.
Crows have instincts and intelligence.
Likewise for other animals.

That you don't like it has no bearing on what is.

As N.Wells so aptly put it -- you have nothing to counter our arguments with.  You lost.  DEAL WITH IT.

  
MrIntelligentDesign



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,07:07   

Quote (NoName @ Oct. 14 2015,07:04)
[quote=MrIntelligentDesign,Oct. 14 2015,07:35][quote=dazz,Oct. 14 2015,05:00][quote=MrIntelligentDesign,Oct. 14 2015,11:42]
Quote (N.Wells @ Oct. 13 2015,18:55)
Hello again, Edgar,
Comments, please?

   
Quote (N.Wells @ Oct. 12 2015,19:03)

That's how you debate? This response is a tacit admittance of defeat.

You have nothing to counter our arguments. You lost

DEAL WITH IT

Animals have intelligence?

LOL!

So what are their instincts?

ROFL!!

Humans are animals.  What grounds do you have for asserting otherwise?  What *evidence* supports any other conclusion?  Even if humans were the only animals to possess intelligence, that does not make them 'non-animals'.

Humans have instincts and intelligence.
Crows have instincts and intelligence.
Likewise for other animals.

That you don't like it has no bearing on what is.

As N.Wells so aptly put it -- you have nothing to counter our arguments with.  You lost.  DEAL WITH IT.

LOL!!!

I've already dealt that topic when I wrote my science books for my new discoveries!

Now, you deal with them!

LOL!

My goodness, you don't have any idea of instinct and intelligence!!! Don't even the differences!

Deal with that before you die or read my science books!

  
NoName



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,07:10   

Quote (MrIntelligentDesign @ Oct. 14 2015,05:42)
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Wow, good article...

I've read the abstract and it was a good research.

You are demonstrably not qualified to judge.
 
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But I was not impressed by the conclusion that those animals used intelligence.

So?
 
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What would you do if you see some birds build nests? They did not only use tools but they knew the mixtures of water and clay, will you still call that "intelligence"?

One would investigate, of course.  Starting with the establishment of great clarity as to just which phenomena were being investigated, what the meaning of the terms involved were, etc.  What one would not do is try to fit the phenomenon into a pre-established mishmash of undefined terms, pre-selected problems, or any of the other foolishness you get up to.
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My goodness...

Seems to have gone missing, if you ever had any.

What would you do if you saw some birds building nests?

  
NoName



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,07:15   

Quote (MrIntelligentDesign @ Oct. 14 2015,05:52)
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Fuck, this guy's boring.

At least Gary's funny, with his intelligent molecules, four-legged hippocampus-equipped insects, and McGonagallesque writing style.  Potato just screams I'M RIGHT BECAUSE I SAID SO over and over again.

I have science and I have the best explanation in since I discovered the real intelligence.

If you read all of mys post, my new discovery was the only explanation which could explain if "eating because you are hungry is intelligence or not"!

Gary and all other are all wrong in intelligence, thus, they are NOT reliable!

What are you going to teach to your kids about intelligence? There are 80 definitions of this topic! You have 1/80 chance that you could understand this...but even so, the 1/80 is still wrong!

To know intelligence, you will surely come to me or die without knowing intelligence well..I think the latter will be your experience...

Ridiculous.

"Eating" is such a poorly specific activity that whether it is intelligent or not is moot.

In order to eat, a human must decide when, where, what, and how.  At what point down the scale do we encounter animals (loosely speaking) that sense hunger and immediately consume whatever is present?
There are always intermediate activities, at least at the scale where hunger is felt as such.

You're an absurdist fraud.
It's very amusing to watch you pick and choose what you will respond to.  Somehow it's never the hard issues -- except when all you can do is shout 'shut up!'.
But as everyone, except possibly you, knows, that's not how science works.
I think you know it too, you just pretend so you can continue on your journey of self-glorification and self-aggrandizement, always in the desperate hope that you'll somehow "make it" and become rich and famous.
As if scientific success were measured by riches and fame.

Pathetic.

When I discovered the real intelligence, from that time onward, I felt that I was very blessed since there are probably 50 billions people around the world from 2000 years ago until now, but I was the one who discovered the real intelligence!

It was 1/50,000,000,000! But I did it! Now tell me, I did not glorify nor aggrandize myself..but science had brought me there...little by little...

Probably, I was born to change the course of the world...
[/quote]
Funny, none of that is even remotely responsive to what you quote from me and from JohnW.  In fact, it is simply a repeat of the annoying and pretentious self-aggrandizement that seems to be your primary driver.
[/quote]
There are phrases like these: "eat intelligently" and "eat naturally"...

Thus, you don't have any idea of intelligence an how nature works!

Does not follow.
How does the presence or absence of certain phrases, certain linguistic constructs, support the claim that users of those phrases have no idea about intelligence or nature?

The one who continually demonstrates an appalling lack of insight into both intelligence and nature is you.
One of the clearest signs of this is your insistence that nature and intelligence are distinct and different.
You have neither evidence nor reason to assert that the realm of intelligent things is anything other than a subset of the realm of natural things.
You continue to avoid facing this fundamental flaw in your notions.  Until you can satisfactorily justify this absurdity, we are fully justified in treating intelligence as fully natural.
Deal with it.

  
dazz



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,07:16   

Quote (MrIntelligentDesign @ Oct. 14 2015,14:07)
Now, you deal with them!

You've already been dealt with, as demonstrated by my experiments disproving your "theory".

The fact that you have no answer to that means that you've lost. Period. You can't keep ignoring the fact that your own experiment proved you wrong.

We also have a valid alternative backed by evidence, as already shown.

Animals are intelligent, humans are animals, the evidence shows that is true, and that supports the notion that animals evolve and intelligence is an emergent property of evolution of those animals.

Now reply with another "LULZ!" and that will mean that you've finally conceded defeat

  
NoName



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,07:17   

Quote (MrIntelligentDesign @ Oct. 14 2015,05:57)
Quote (dazz @ Oct. 13 2015,16:45)
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Is eating because hungry is an intelligent action or not?


Yes it is, or are you willing to argue that NOT eating when you're hungry is intelligent?

Where's your experiment for this? You got no eggs left, no place to go, cornered, helplessly embarrassed

RETRACT YOUR WORK

FUNNY!!!!

LOLOLOLOLOL!!!

ROFL!!!!

Non-responsive.
Totally unprofessional and entirely unscientific.
It is the mark of the fool with no ability to respond to his critics.
Particularly when dazz has you dead to rights on this -- he's demanding you do what you insist is proper for others, on solid and well-established grounds.  You refuse to do so.
At best that makes you a hypocrite.
And as we continue to see here, your best is not good, not good at all.

  
NoName



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,07:18   

Quote (MrIntelligentDesign @ Oct. 14 2015,07:35)
[quote=dazz,Oct. 14 2015,05:00][quote=MrIntelligentDesign,Oct. 14 2015,11:42] [quote=N.Wells,Oct. 13 2015,18:55]Hello again, Edgar,
Comments, please?

   
Quote (N.Wells @ Oct. 12 2015,19:03)

That's how you debate? This response is a tacit admittance of defeat.

You have nothing to counter our arguments. You lost

DEAL WITH IT

Animals have intelligence?

LOL!

So what are their instincts?

ROFL!!

What do you mean by 'instinct'?
What do you mean by 'intelligent'?
What differentiates the two?
How do you determine, for any given behavior, whether it is intelligent or instinctual?

You haven't a clue, as we have clearly seen.  You lack the basic analytic skills to even begin to address the problems.

  
NoName



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,07:22   

Quote (MrIntelligentDesign @ Oct. 14 2015,08:07)
[quote=NoName,Oct. 14 2015,07:04][quote=MrIntelligentDesign,Oct. 14 2015,07:35][quote=dazz,Oct. 14 2015,05:00]
Quote (MrIntelligentDesign @ Oct. 14 2015,11:42)
 
Quote (N.Wells @ Oct. 13 2015,18:55)
Hello again, Edgar,
Comments, please?

     
Quote (N.Wells @ Oct. 12 2015,19:03)

That's how you debate? This response is a tacit admittance of defeat.

You have nothing to counter our arguments. You lost

DEAL WITH IT

Animals have intelligence?

LOL!

So what are their instincts?

ROFL!!

Humans are animals.  What grounds do you have for asserting otherwise?  What *evidence* supports any other conclusion?  Even if humans were the only animals to possess intelligence, that does not make them 'non-animals'.

Humans have instincts and intelligence.
Crows have instincts and intelligence.
Likewise for other animals.

That you don't like it has no bearing on what is.

As N.Wells so aptly put it -- you have nothing to counter our arguments with.  You lost.  DEAL WITH IT.

LOL!!!

I've already dealt that topic when I wrote my science books for my new discoveries!

Now, you deal with them!

LOL!

My goodness, you don't have any idea of instinct and intelligence!!! Don't even the differences!

Deal with that before you die or read my science books!

So your answer is "I have the answer somewhere else, trust me."

Oddly enough, we don't trust you.  You've shown yourself to be profoundly untrustworthy.

I don't need to know how to distinguish instinct and intelligence -- I'm not the one making claims about them.
You are the one making claims about them, therefore you are the one who has to define his terms, justify them on the evidence, defend them against criticisms, and establish the validity of the claimed distinction.

You won't because you can't.  You lack the necessary evidence, the necessary analytic skills, the necessary skills with logic and with reason.

"Hey, look over there" is not an answer, it's an admission of defeat.

  
dazz



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,07:34   

It doesn't matter anymore what's in those books. Nothing can solve the problem of experimental refutation.

If one experiment proves you wrong, nothing else can explain it away.

Of course that "experiment" is no such thing and is totally meaningless, but if you claim that it's valid, then you have to accept that my reproductions are also valid and accept that you've been disproved experimentally. You explicitly said that your egg-tissue experiment was experimental evidence for your categorization, hence, my results contradicting yours are enough to show that your theory doesn't work, no matter what else is in your books.

I already used your own (ridiculous) experiment for gravity: if I dropped a pen and it soared upwards, gravity would be disproved (according to you). No extra rationalizations can overcome contradicting experimental results.

You are done, Edgar. The sooner you assimilate it the better

  
NoName



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,07:48   

We can also take a look at the question I raised yesterday and its implications for your notions.
Is fear 'naturen' or 'intellen'?
Fear -> fight or flight
Well-established, and seems to support the view that fear is 'intellen'.  Or if you want to insist on a requirement that there be 3 solutions, then we point out that 'fight or flight' is an over-simplification.  Some creatures have a third option, neither fight or flight.  Freeze and hope to be overlooked.
The Opossum is perhaps the canonical case for this, but it is not a response limited solely to Opossums.  Thus, it is not a 'singular exception' -- although principles admit of no exception, right?
So fear -> flight, fight, or freeze
3 solutions to one problem, so fear has to count as 'intellen'.  Yet we clearly see this pattern of "problem>solution" in many animal species that you are entirely unwilling to consider intelligent.
So once again we see that your foundational distinction is, in fact, ad hoc, unsupported by the evidence, and merely a rhetorical ploy.  Also, that it is one that is based on an argument for ignorance.  Until we discovered the Opossum and its fear reaction behavior, and other creatures with the same or similar reaction behaviors, we could get by with fear -> fight or flight.  But freezing in place is neither fight nor flight.
You lose, on your own grounds.
Deal with it.

  
MrIntelligentDesign



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,07:54   

Quote (NoName @ Oct. 14 2015,07:22)
[quote=MrIntelligentDesign,Oct. 14 2015,08:07][quote=NoName,Oct. 14 2015,07:04]
So your answer is "I have the answer somewhere else, trust me."

Oddly enough, we don't trust you.  You've shown yourself to be profoundly untrustworthy.

I don't need to know how to distinguish instinct and intelligence -- I'm not the one making claims about them.
You are the one making claims about them, therefore you are the one who has to define his terms, justify them on the evidence, defend them against criticisms, and establish the validity of the claimed distinction.

You won't because you can't.  You lack the necessary evidence, the necessary analytic skills, the necessary skills with logic and with reason.

"Hey, look over there" is not an answer, it's an admission of defeat.

I am not a salesman here, thus, don't trust me.

What I want you to do is to make a replacement for intelligence which is better than mine in science since you have a nerve to say that I am wrong.

And after that, categorize if waiting when hungry is intelligence or not.

That is it.

Write them in book so that I could buy.

  
NoName



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,08:07   

Quote (MrIntelligentDesign @ Oct. 14 2015,08:54)
[quote=NoName,Oct. 14 2015,07:22]
Quote (MrIntelligentDesign @ Oct. 14 2015,08:07)
Quote (NoName @ Oct. 14 2015,07:04)

So your answer is "I have the answer somewhere else, trust me."

Oddly enough, we don't trust you.  You've shown yourself to be profoundly untrustworthy.

I don't need to know how to distinguish instinct and intelligence -- I'm not the one making claims about them.
You are the one making claims about them, therefore you are the one who has to define his terms, justify them on the evidence, defend them against criticisms, and establish the validity of the claimed distinction.

You won't because you can't.  You lack the necessary evidence, the necessary analytic skills, the necessary skills with logic and with reason.

"Hey, look over there" is not an answer, it's an admission of defeat.

I am not a salesman here, thus, don't trust me.

We don't.  Even though it is abundantly clear that you are only in it for the personal fame and fortune.  That was your answer to my question about what would change if the world adopted your notions into science.
Hardly respectable.
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What I want you to do is to make a replacement for intelligence which is better than mine in science since you have a nerve to say that I am wrong.

And again, that's not how it works.
We've shown your notions are wrong.  No replacement needed.
No argument need be defeated solely by a replacement solution.  It is often the case that all that is required is to show that the proposed solution fails.
In your case, even the proposed problem fails.  The proposed solution is utter nonsense.
We've shown that, and that is all that is needed to demolish your claims.
How about you provide a good solid well-defined definition of the problem?  You haven't even done that.

[quote]And after that, categorize if waiting when hungry is intelligence or not.

That is it.

Write them in book so that I could buy.

The answer is short, it can be provided here.
The answer is "it depends".  How long a wait?  Why the wait?  Overweight people do not eat immediately when hungry.  Refusing to satisfy their hunger to the point where they are no longer hungry is (part of) the intelligent solution to the problem of losing weight.  As part of the problem of 'hungry'.
You keep insisting that the very complex set of issues involved in hunger and eating are simple and trivially susceptible to a single simple answer.
As I've shown, you are entirely wrong.  You lack the necessary analytic skills to even begin to approach the genuine issues.
There is always a lag between the occurrence of hunger and the act of eating.  Always.  There are always choices -- eat or don't eat, eat now or eat later, eat what? eat where?
All are involved in any adequate consideration of the 'hunger-eat' notion.
All are ignored by you in your desperate attempt to collapse and force-fit every phenomena into your pre-selected idiotic notions.
You lose.
Deal with it.

  
dazz



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,08:09   

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What I want you to do is to make a replacement for intelligence which is better than mine


Already done, stop ignoring it: intelligence is an emergent property of evolving life forms that involves learning, decision making and problem solving. The evidence has also been presented to you: animals learn, make decisions, and solve problems.

That's an operational definition, yours are not. We have evidence, you have counter-evidence. So we're right and you are wrong, so your books are wrong from cover to cover.

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you have a nerve to say that I am wrong


We don't just say you're wrong, we've PROVED you wrong

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if waiting when hungry is intelligence or not


Yes it is, for example, if you're in a diet. That involves decision making. Our theory explains why it's intelligent in the terms of our own definition of intelligence.

Your "theory" can't answer that question because it doesn't follow from your "theory" that eating or waiting when hungry is intelligence or not. You just assert it. You fail

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Write them in book so that I could buy


It's written here, more than enough.

Now grab your books and shove'em up your ass. That will be the most intelligent decision you would've made so far

  
NoName



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,08:32   

This criticism of a student’s research paper reads as if the student were Postrado.  Or as if the criticism were directed at his AtBC thread and his books.

“Actually, you didn’t turn in a research paper.  You submitted a large, awkward, random assemblage of sentences.  In fact, the sentences you apparently kidnapped in the dead of night and forced into this violent and arbitrary plan of yours clearly seemed to be placed on the pages against their will.  Reading your paper was like watching unfamiliar, uncomfortable people interact at a cocktail party that no one wanted to attend in the first place.  You didn’t submit a research paper.  You submitted a hostage situation.”

Actually, the same criticism could be raised against Gaulin and his “theory” with equal validity.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,09:18   

[quote=NoName,Oct. 14 2015,07:04][quote=MrIntelligentDesign,Oct. 14 2015,07:35][quote=dazz,Oct. 14 2015,05:00]
Quote (MrIntelligentDesign @ Oct. 14 2015,11:42)
 
Quote (N.Wells @ Oct. 13 2015,18:55)
Hello again, Edgar,
Comments, please?

     
Quote (N.Wells @ Oct. 12 2015,19:03)

That's how you debate? This response is a tacit admittance of defeat.

You have nothing to counter our arguments. You lost

DEAL WITH IT

Animals have intelligence?

LOL!

So what are their instincts?

ROFL!!

Humans are animals.  What grounds do you have for asserting otherwise?  What *evidence* supports any other conclusion?  Even if humans were the only animals to possess intelligence, that does not make them 'non-animals'.

Humans have instincts and intelligence.
Crows have instincts and intelligence.
Likewise for other animals.

That you don't like it has no bearing on what is.

As N.Wells so aptly put it -- you have nothing to counter our arguments with.  You lost.  DEAL WITH IT.

Dazz said that: Edgar chopped out some material and left the rest looking like I said Dazz's words.  (Edgar, please stop doing that.)

Edgar, there is a huge literature on instinctive behavior versus learned behavior and intelligence.  Key words for early literature are vitalism and mechanism.  There is a great discussion in Welty, The Life of Birds, including a discussion of where some previous researchers went off the rails in trying to force-fit observations into preconceived philosophical schemes.  Everybody reading that discussion except you will easily recognize the categories of errors that you commit.

Birds rely heavily on innate, inherited (instinctive) knowledge that can be remarkably sophisticated and adaptive.  On the other hand, birds also rely on learned behavior and creative solutions: read about blue-tits discovering how to puncture metal foil caps on milk bottles in England to get at the cream inside, and learning to follow milk-carts on their delivery routes. New behaviors come in a gradation of sophistication from habituation to trial-and-error learning, on to insight learning.  It is clear that there is a gradation from instinct to creative intelligence, and that animals show mixtures of behaviors all along the spectrum, and that the dichotomy that you propose is wrong-headed and ignorant of reality.

  
NoName



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,09:28   

Ah, figures.
He claims to know what intelligence is yet he cannot figure out how to use the 'quote' function and the associated editor.
Compounded by his innate dishonesty and total disregard for the thoughts of others.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,10:31   

Plus, he's a salesman (I can smell them a mile away, especially on the 'net . . . . he's constantly trying to sell his 'books').

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I am not a salesman here, thus, don't trust me.


Bullshit, as I've written above.  And we DON'T trust you, you haven't earned it.

There's a word for you, MrIntelligentDesign, and that's DUMMY.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,14:16   

Quote (jeffox @ Oct. 14 2015,18:31)
Plus, he's a salesman (I can smell them a mile away, especially on the 'net . . . . he's constantly trying to sell his 'books').

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I am not a salesman here, thus, don't trust me.


Bullshit, as I've written above.  And we DON'T trust you, you haven't earned it.

There's a word for you, MrIntelligentDesign, and that's DUMMY.

No no no no salemen here.


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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,15:32   

Quote (NoName @ Oct. 14 2015,08:07)
[quote=MrIntelligentDesign,Oct. 14 2015,08:54][quote=NoName,Oct. 14 2015,07:22]
Quote (MrIntelligentDesign @ Oct. 14 2015,08:07)
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So your answer is "I have the answer somewhere else, trust me."

Oddly enough, we don't trust you.  You've shown yourself to be profoundly untrustworthy.

I don't need to know how to distinguish instinct and intelligence -- I'm not the one making claims about them.
You are the one making claims about them, therefore you are the one who has to define his terms, justify them on the evidence, defend them against criticisms, and establish the validity of the claimed distinction.

You won't because you can't.  You lack the necessary evidence, the necessary analytic skills, the necessary skills with logic and with reason.

"Hey, look over there" is not an answer, it's an admission of defeat.

I am not a salesman here, thus, don't trust me.

We don't.  Even though it is abundantly clear that you are only in it for the personal fame and fortune.  That was your answer to my question about what would change if the world adopted your notions into science.
Hardly respectable.
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What I want you to do is to make a replacement for intelligence which is better than mine in science since you have a nerve to say that I am wrong.

And again, that's not how it works.
We've shown your notions are wrong.  No replacement needed.
No argument need be defeated solely by a replacement solution.  It is often the case that all that is required is to show that the proposed solution fails.
In your case, even the proposed problem fails.  The proposed solution is utter nonsense.
We've shown that, and that is all that is needed to demolish your claims.
How about you provide a good solid well-defined definition of the problem?  You haven't even done that.

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And after that, categorize if waiting when hungry is intelligence or not.

That is it.

Write them in book so that I could buy.

The answer is short, it can be provided here.
The answer is "it depends".  How long a wait?  Why the wait?  Overweight people do not eat immediately when hungry.  Refusing to satisfy their hunger to the point where they are no longer hungry is (part of) the intelligent solution to the problem of losing weight.  As part of the problem of 'hungry'.
You keep insisting that the very complex set of issues involved in hunger and eating are simple and trivially susceptible to a single simple answer.
As I've shown, you are entirely wrong.  You lack the necessary analytic skills to even begin to approach the genuine issues.
There is always a lag between the occurrence of hunger and the act of eating.  Always.  There are always choices -- eat or don't eat, eat now or eat later, eat what? eat where?
All are involved in any adequate consideration of the 'hunger-eat' notion.
All are ignored by you in your desperate attempt to collapse and force-fit every phenomena into your pre-selected idiotic notions.
You lose.
Deal with it.

CRAZY! CRAZY! CRAZY!!

What would you do if you are hungry? Drink? or Eat? or Walk? or Fast? or Sing?

The answer is swift and simple: eat and that is naturen.

Now, that is symmetry.

  
NoName



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,16:02   

Quote (MrIntelligentDesign @ Oct. 14 2015,16:32)
[quote=NoName,Oct. 14 2015,08:07][quote=MrIntelligentDesign,Oct. 14 2015,08:54]
Quote (NoName @ Oct. 14 2015,07:22)
 
Quote (MrIntelligentDesign @ Oct. 14 2015,08:07)
 
Quote (NoName @ Oct. 14 2015,07:04)

So your answer is "I have the answer somewhere else, trust me."

Oddly enough, we don't trust you.  You've shown yourself to be profoundly untrustworthy.

I don't need to know how to distinguish instinct and intelligence -- I'm not the one making claims about them.
You are the one making claims about them, therefore you are the one who has to define his terms, justify them on the evidence, defend them against criticisms, and establish the validity of the claimed distinction.

You won't because you can't.  You lack the necessary evidence, the necessary analytic skills, the necessary skills with logic and with reason.

"Hey, look over there" is not an answer, it's an admission of defeat.

I am not a salesman here, thus, don't trust me.

We don't.  Even though it is abundantly clear that you are only in it for the personal fame and fortune.  That was your answer to my question about what would change if the world adopted your notions into science.
Hardly respectable.
 
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What I want you to do is to make a replacement for intelligence which is better than mine in science since you have a nerve to say that I am wrong.

And again, that's not how it works.
We've shown your notions are wrong.  No replacement needed.
No argument need be defeated solely by a replacement solution.  It is often the case that all that is required is to show that the proposed solution fails.
In your case, even the proposed problem fails.  The proposed solution is utter nonsense.
We've shown that, and that is all that is needed to demolish your claims.
How about you provide a good solid well-defined definition of the problem?  You haven't even done that.

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And after that, categorize if waiting when hungry is intelligence or not.

That is it.

Write them in book so that I could buy.

The answer is short, it can be provided here.
The answer is "it depends".  How long a wait?  Why the wait?  Overweight people do not eat immediately when hungry.  Refusing to satisfy their hunger to the point where they are no longer hungry is (part of) the intelligent solution to the problem of losing weight.  As part of the problem of 'hungry'.
You keep insisting that the very complex set of issues involved in hunger and eating are simple and trivially susceptible to a single simple answer.
As I've shown, you are entirely wrong.  You lack the necessary analytic skills to even begin to approach the genuine issues.
There is always a lag between the occurrence of hunger and the act of eating.  Always.  There are always choices -- eat or don't eat, eat now or eat later, eat what? eat where?
All are involved in any adequate consideration of the 'hunger-eat' notion.
All are ignored by you in your desperate attempt to collapse and force-fit every phenomena into your pre-selected idiotic notions.
You lose.
Deal with it.

CRAZY! CRAZY! CRAZY!!

What would you do if you are hungry? Drink? or Eat? or Walk? or Fast? or Sing?

The answer is swift and simple: eat and that is naturen.

Now, that is symmetry.

Of course you can make the result whatever you want it to be if you specify it precisely and then pretend that the result is fully general.
But that's not how it works.
That's one part of what we mean when we say you lack analytic ability.

It is patently absurd to counter an argument by shouting 'crazy, crazy, crazy!'
At the very least you need to substantiate that rejoinder.
You have not.

You have completely ignored the meat of my objection -- it is simply not true that every occurrence of hunger results in immediate consumption of something conveniently ready to hand.  There is always a set of decisions to make.  Decisions are a part of intelligence, thus eating always involves some degree of intelligence.  Or, at the 'lowest' levels, perhaps a precursor to intelligence -- the difficulty here is determining at what point we have a creature that does not feel hunger but merely consumes.  Such creatures exist, you know.  You've been given at least one example.
So, the question remains -- hunger -> desire to eat.  But desire to eat may be met in a wide variety of ways.  People who are dieting, another category brought to your attention by myself and others, do not eat until satiated.  They are always at least a little bit hungry.  Yet they do not eat.  By choice.
Thus, the simple-minded overly simplified, indeed, simplistic account "hungry therefore eat" does not serve you as you need it to.
You've been falsified.  Your notions fail.
No matter how many times you stamp your feet or how loud you shout.
No matter how much you wish it were otherwise.
Wishing will avail you nothing against the brute adversity of facts.

You lose.  You have failed.
You do not have any understanding of intelligence at all.
How could you?  You have no understanding of hunger or of eating.

Oh, and yes, if one is hungry, drinking can be a satisfactory and fully intelligent reaction to the hunger.
I leave it to you to work out why.  Or deny it and be embarrassed yet again by your errors.

Symmetry has nothing to do with determining if an entity or act is intelligent.
Nor does asymmetry have anything to do with determining if an entity or act is natural.
Do you understand me?

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,16:43   

Quote (NoName @ Oct. 14 2015,14:02)
[quote=MrIntelligentDesign,Oct. 14 2015,16:32][quote=NoName,Oct. 14 2015,08:07]
Quote (MrIntelligentDesign @ Oct. 14 2015,08:54)
Quote (NoName @ Oct. 14 2015,07:22)
 
Quote (MrIntelligentDesign @ Oct. 14 2015,08:07)
 
Quote (NoName @ Oct. 14 2015,07:04)

So your answer is "I have the answer somewhere else, trust me."

Oddly enough, we don't trust you.  You've shown yourself to be profoundly untrustworthy.

I don't need to know how to distinguish instinct and intelligence -- I'm not the one making claims about them.
You are the one making claims about them, therefore you are the one who has to define his terms, justify them on the evidence, defend them against criticisms, and establish the validity of the claimed distinction.

You won't because you can't.  You lack the necessary evidence, the necessary analytic skills, the necessary skills with logic and with reason.

"Hey, look over there" is not an answer, it's an admission of defeat.

I am not a salesman here, thus, don't trust me.

We don't.  Even though it is abundantly clear that you are only in it for the personal fame and fortune.  That was your answer to my question about what would change if the world adopted your notions into science.
Hardly respectable.
 
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What I want you to do is to make a replacement for intelligence which is better than mine in science since you have a nerve to say that I am wrong.

And again, that's not how it works.
We've shown your notions are wrong.  No replacement needed.
No argument need be defeated solely by a replacement solution.  It is often the case that all that is required is to show that the proposed solution fails.
In your case, even the proposed problem fails.  The proposed solution is utter nonsense.
We've shown that, and that is all that is needed to demolish your claims.
How about you provide a good solid well-defined definition of the problem?  You haven't even done that.

 
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And after that, categorize if waiting when hungry is intelligence or not.

That is it.

Write them in book so that I could buy.

The answer is short, it can be provided here.
The answer is "it depends".  How long a wait?  Why the wait?  Overweight people do not eat immediately when hungry.  Refusing to satisfy their hunger to the point where they are no longer hungry is (part of) the intelligent solution to the problem of losing weight.  As part of the problem of 'hungry'.
You keep insisting that the very complex set of issues involved in hunger and eating are simple and trivially susceptible to a single simple answer.
As I've shown, you are entirely wrong.  You lack the necessary analytic skills to even begin to approach the genuine issues.
There is always a lag between the occurrence of hunger and the act of eating.  Always.  There are always choices -- eat or don't eat, eat now or eat later, eat what? eat where?
All are involved in any adequate consideration of the 'hunger-eat' notion.
All are ignored by you in your desperate attempt to collapse and force-fit every phenomena into your pre-selected idiotic notions.
You lose.
Deal with it.

CRAZY! CRAZY! CRAZY!!

What would you do if you are hungry? Drink? or Eat? or Walk? or Fast? or Sing?

The answer is swift and simple: eat and that is naturen.

Now, that is symmetry.

Of course you can make the result whatever you want it to be if you specify it precisely and then pretend that the result is fully general.
But that's not how it works.
That's one part of what we mean when we say you lack analytic ability.

It is patently absurd to counter an argument by shouting 'crazy, crazy, crazy!'
At the very least you need to substantiate that rejoinder.
You have not.

You have completely ignored the meat of my objection -- it is simply not true that every occurrence of hunger results in immediate consumption of something conveniently ready to hand.  There is always a set of decisions to make.  Decisions are a part of intelligence, thus eating always involves some degree of intelligence.  Or, at the 'lowest' levels, perhaps a precursor to intelligence -- the difficulty here is determining at what point we have a creature that does not feel hunger but merely consumes.  Such creatures exist, you know.  You've been given at least one example.
So, the question remains -- hunger -> desire to eat.  But desire to eat may be met in a wide variety of ways.  People who are dieting, another category brought to your attention by myself and others, do not eat until satiated.  They are always at least a little bit hungry.  Yet they do not eat.  By choice.
Thus, the simple-minded overly simplified, indeed, simplistic account "hungry therefore eat" does not serve you as you need it to.
You've been falsified.  Your notions fail.
No matter how many times you stamp your feet or how loud you shout.
No matter how much you wish it were otherwise.
Wishing will avail you nothing against the brute adversity of facts.

You lose.  You have failed.
You do not have any understanding of intelligence at all.
How could you?  You have no understanding of hunger or of eating.

Oh, and yes, if one is hungry, drinking can be a satisfactory and fully intelligent reaction to the hunger.
I leave it to you to work out why.  Or deny it and be embarrassed yet again by your errors.

Symmetry has nothing to do with determining if an entity or act is intelligent.
Nor does asymmetry have anything to do with determining if an entity or act is natural.
Do you understand me?

For entertainment purposes, i wonder if we should concede Potato's point so he can move on.  He's been bloody boring so far, but it might be amusing to see how he gets from "eating is not intelligent" to "therefore Jesus."  It will probably be just as sad and pathetic as his first 22 pages, but we live in hope.

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Math is just a language of reality. Its a waste of time to know it. - Robert Byers

There isn't any probability that the letter d is in the word "mathematics"...  The correct answer would be "not even 0" - JoeG

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,16:51   

He insists he's got science. I want him to prove it.
That he can't is obvious, but that's no reason to let him get away with his childish tantrums.
He made his mess, I want to see him eat it.

  
NoName



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,16:52   

Also, he hasn't been entertaining so far -- why expect that to change?
He's a tedious little git and that's unlikely to change.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,17:08   

Quote (NoName @ Oct. 14 2015,15:51)
He made his mess, I want to see him eat it.

It's only natural naturen.

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"You could always wrap fresh fish in the paper you publish it on, though, and sell that." - Field Man on how to find value in Gary Gaulin's real-science "theory"

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,17:58   

Quote (MrIntelligentDesign @ Oct. 14 2015,22:32)
[quote=NoName,Oct. 14 2015,08:07][quote=MrIntelligentDesign,Oct. 14 2015,08:54]
Quote (NoName @ Oct. 14 2015,07:22)
 
Quote (MrIntelligentDesign @ Oct. 14 2015,08:07)
 
Quote (NoName @ Oct. 14 2015,07:04)

So your answer is "I have the answer somewhere else, trust me."

Oddly enough, we don't trust you.  You've shown yourself to be profoundly untrustworthy.

I don't need to know how to distinguish instinct and intelligence -- I'm not the one making claims about them.
You are the one making claims about them, therefore you are the one who has to define his terms, justify them on the evidence, defend them against criticisms, and establish the validity of the claimed distinction.

You won't because you can't.  You lack the necessary evidence, the necessary analytic skills, the necessary skills with logic and with reason.

"Hey, look over there" is not an answer, it's an admission of defeat.

I am not a salesman here, thus, don't trust me.

We don't.  Even though it is abundantly clear that you are only in it for the personal fame and fortune.  That was your answer to my question about what would change if the world adopted your notions into science.
Hardly respectable.
 
Quote
What I want you to do is to make a replacement for intelligence which is better than mine in science since you have a nerve to say that I am wrong.

And again, that's not how it works.
We've shown your notions are wrong.  No replacement needed.
No argument need be defeated solely by a replacement solution.  It is often the case that all that is required is to show that the proposed solution fails.
In your case, even the proposed problem fails.  The proposed solution is utter nonsense.
We've shown that, and that is all that is needed to demolish your claims.
How about you provide a good solid well-defined definition of the problem?  You haven't even done that.

Quote
And after that, categorize if waiting when hungry is intelligence or not.

That is it.

Write them in book so that I could buy.

The answer is short, it can be provided here.
The answer is "it depends".  How long a wait?  Why the wait?  Overweight people do not eat immediately when hungry.  Refusing to satisfy their hunger to the point where they are no longer hungry is (part of) the intelligent solution to the problem of losing weight.  As part of the problem of 'hungry'.
You keep insisting that the very complex set of issues involved in hunger and eating are simple and trivially susceptible to a single simple answer.
As I've shown, you are entirely wrong.  You lack the necessary analytic skills to even begin to approach the genuine issues.
There is always a lag between the occurrence of hunger and the act of eating.  Always.  There are always choices -- eat or don't eat, eat now or eat later, eat what? eat where?
All are involved in any adequate consideration of the 'hunger-eat' notion.
All are ignored by you in your desperate attempt to collapse and force-fit every phenomena into your pre-selected idiotic notions.
You lose.
Deal with it.

CRAZY! CRAZY! CRAZY!!

What would you do if you are hungry? Drink? or Eat? or Walk? or Fast? or Sing?

The answer is swift and simple: eat and that is naturen.

Now, that is symmetry.

Repeating the same disproved and unfounded assertions won't cut it dude. It's all futile. Experiments rule science, and your experiments failed. You know it. No point in persisting.

You asked for experiments, alternatives, refutations. All of those were given here. You have no answer to that, you just keep repeating the same disproved assertions over and over again... It amounts to stubbornly persisting that the earth is flat, "because I say it's flat!!!!", "I told you it was flat!!"

You know it, so be a man of honor and assume it. You know you promised to withdraw your books, remember God is watching from above and he doesn't like dishonest liars

Do what you have to do now

  
NoName



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2015,18:02   

He has no honor.
He will not do the right thing.
His sin is upon him and he glories in it.
He has no honor.

  
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