intelligence

Intelligence has become a cognitive concept. The study of intelligence historically sprung from epistemology, a post-Kant Newtonian professionalization of philosophy.

Intelligence is not between our ears. It's out there in the stars, in the ocean, on the ground, in the world. Intelligence is in the interface between out and in. The basis if intelligence is in the selective membrane. This selective membrane is also a prerequisite for life. With a selective membrane an out and an in become possible, separating a cell from a soup of organic chemicals, replicating proteins bathed in the radiation of a young sun.

Our sense of consciousness is merely epiphenomenal to a network of specialized motor neurons whose connections in three dimensional space provide the conditions for memory. And our odd behaviors, our repetition, our culture, our memorializations fit a cyclical process. We return to the same over and over for the sake of our brains. Cultural activity is neuronal consolidation: it allows us to return to familiar features continually. It's the basis of our memory. We have events that continually serve as signposts to a life lived serially from start to finish.

Those are my views. The basis of intelligence is merely a selective membrane.