Bebelina,
Infinite intelligence means exactly what it says.
The concept of something being infinite is of course always hard to grasp, and so is the concept of intelligence.
LOL. So it is a vague term and largely meaningless then, right? But sounds “deep”.
But nature is everything
that is or can be detectable. Otherwise it doesn’t exist. It is claimed that there is a ‘supernatural’ realm, but no one has really been able to define what that means and if it exists or could exist or how it might interact with nature without itself being natural.
Not so very long ago radio-waves were unknown. They still remain invisible to the human eye since that sensor does not operate at those frequencies. Could there be other forms of energy or forces that we have yet to discover? No one knows, I hope so, and it would be arrogant to assume that we currently know all that there is. Could there be something that allows telekinesis or telepathy? I have no idea.
The problem with trying to label the unknown is that one has no idea what the unknown is so any label will almost certainly be wrong. In which case why even try? Could you imagine living 1000 years ago and assigning the label of ‘electromagnetic radiation’ to the light coming from the sun?
I have heard many say that the power of the human brain is infinite, but we know from neuroscience that is has very finite limitations. The term ‘infinite’ seems to be an overly misused term and tends to really mean something unimaginably large. But ‘infinite’ isn’t simply a large number, in fact it cannot describe any numerical value. It is simply something that doesn’t have a boundary.
And all the combined consciousnesses that exist must together be extremely intelligent, from a human point of view anyway.
Perhaps, but they must be combined. For example, and I hope you understand a little bit about binary. Take 2 binary digits and show their combinations – 00,01,10,11. There are 4 possibilities. Let’s say this represents the intelligence of one individual. Now is the combined intelligence of two people 2 x 4 combinations, making a power factor of 8 or is it something else? So let’s take two sets of 2 binary digits and combine them and see what happens – 0000,0001,0010,0011,0100,0101,0110,0111,1000,1001,1010,1011,1100,1101,1110,1111. That gives us 16 combinations, what happened to the prediction 8? This really is a case where the total is greater than the sum of the parts.
So I think you are right, if all our individual intelligences could be combined then the result would be staggering, and more so than you are suggesting. Perhaps if all the matter and energy in our infinite universe could be organized into one single combined intelligence then yes I could visualize “infinite intelligence”. But at the moment we are not combined, we are very much separate and very limited. It seems to me inevitable that the human race will evolve along those lines and will find ways to combine individuals into larger intelligences. I believe I can also see quite clearly how to achieve that in the not too distant future.
What ya reckon?