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Last week, in our World Changers Issue, Michael Pollan wrote about the growing field of plant neurobiology and the ways that plants seem to exhibit intelligence, intention, and even choice.
By The New Yorker December 20 , 2013 Last week in our World Changers Issue, Michael Pollan wrote about the growing field of plant neurobiology and the ways that plants seem to exhibit intelligence, intention, and even choice.
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What shamans and indigenous cultures have been saying for a long time is increasingly confirmed in scientific research: There are persons in these other beings with intelligence, intentions and consciousness".
To define certain words in such a way as to bring plants and animals beneath the same semantic umbrella — whether of intelligence or intention or learning — is a philosophical choice with important consequences for how we see ourselves in nature.
"Theme parks are the all-encompassing product of a singular intelligence and intention, and as such they also resemble utopias," says Will Wiles, an architecture journalist who took a crowbar to the cookie-cutter motel, motorway and conference-centre landscape found on the periphery of so many cities in his novel The Way Inn.
Second, it looks at the universe and searches for two things: intelligence and intention.
So that's the whole purpose of intelligence; to produce intentions and capabilities of potential adversaries.
Working backward from that point, it passes the creator's intention — intelligence, emotion, soul — coming the other way.
Though she is perfectly capable of uttering sentences like "Every character puts me through a journey of acceptance about myself," it is hard to discount either her intelligence or her intention.
The robot voice is also more confident, showing artificial intelligence with a purpose, an intention, a power.
McConnell admitted that Congress had reason to be wary of the intelligence community's intentions.
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