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I always consider intellect to be a part of the nature. It is a nature's way to reason about itself after all.

• coldtea 9y ago
  In an abstract way yes. But in another sense, intellect vs nature is a useful distinction to make. (E.g. blind forces of evolution through selection/mutation/etc, vs conscious targeted changes).
  • roceasta 9y ago
    The work of Karl Popper suggests than human knowledge also progresses in an evolutionary manner, by conjecture and refutation. So something resembling natural selection must be going on in our brains. http://www.the-rathouse.com/CRContents.html http://www.the-rathouse.com/CRContents.html
    • coldtea 9y ago
      >The work of Karl Popper suggests than human knowledge also progresses in an evolutionary manner, by conjecture and refutation. Human knowledge in general might, but I'm talking about how humans take action and shape the world around them vs how evolution does. Conjecture and refutation are not like random mutations -- that's just the "survival of the fittest" part of evolution, which is not the actual mechanism and which applies to everything (after all, anything that survives is fitter that what didn't).