From: Reilly Jones (Reilly@compuserve.com)
Date: Mon Mar 09 1998 - 17:22:12 MST
John Dale wrote 3/9/98:
<D. What remains
There is an open area concerning the 'fact' that higher intelligence is
itself limited and supposes a higher order still. In this, we might also
consider that our very idea of 'higher' might be called into question.
Some evolutionary biologists say that we cannot even call human
intelligence 'higher' than that of any other species.
--
Tony Blake>
Well, certainly some evolutionary biologists do not possess higher
intelligence than that of any other species if this is their hypothesis.
"The fact that higher intelligence is itself limited and supposes a higher
order still" is contained in the thought of Anselm from the eleventh
century, and is subsumed within his ontological proof for the existence of
God. A good reference work on the subtleties of the argument and on
previous attempts to refute it can be found in Charles Hartshorne's
"Anselm's Discovery" (1965).
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