I pondered this question all of my life. At first it seems obvious, ?I think, right? But, what am I? Life is life... (?) Life came from the universe..stuff(?) I am a thinking person! The deffinition of intellegence is ~ 1. Problem solving. A virus is therefore, intellegent when it adapts to Penicillan. But, does a virus have consciousness? Okay-okay-kay! So, I was a temporary casual mailman and this dog was lose in a frontyard.. But, I couldn't hold the mail, because I was just a casual mailman.. So, I tried to put the mail in mailbox at the chain link fence and the dog bit me. So, I maced the dog.. and he jumped the fence. I locked myself in my car and drove to the next block to finish my rout. The dog followed me! I had to call the police. The owner made a complaint against me after I made my complaint against his dog. The owner said there was a sign clearly posted ~ "BEWARE OF THE DOG." But. The mailbox was inside the chain link fence.. He had to move his mailbox outside the fence. Reflections: Where is the intellegence in leaving a Rotweiler unleashed and unattended in a frontyard? The Rotweiler was intellengent enough to follow me in my car and remain at the car, waiting to finish me off. It sounds silly, but sometimes animals are more intellegent then their owners and the common cold has more skill in adapting than many humans. Is intellegence only human? ... Just curious... |