[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for your reply!

I'm not trying to wrench up the defining, but have you all previously agreed to what is meant by "intelligent." If so, can you ping me to it? Thanks.

Most certainly I will ping you!

And yes, I expect we will need to define all the component concepts as well: intelligence, causation, life v non-life, undirected process.

[Alamo-Girl]

LOLOL! I forgot to mention that we have not yet defined intelligence.

[HiTech RedNeck]

and purpose, will, intent. something that manifests itself as operations seen on a medium that would be too poor to be expected to support the operations by itself. (e.g. an ordinary piano has no way to play itself, so if you hear music from it you could reason that a pianist is sitting at the keyboard)