> Can you provide an example of an "intelligent" system that is definitely not a "mechanistic response unit"? Sure, intelligent systems do by definition have a

> Can you provide an example of an "intelligent" system that is definitely not a "mechanistic response unit"? Sure, intelligent systems do by definition have a mechanistically responsive element at its base; they're made of matter, after all. However, that doesn't mean that every system which is able to respond to changes in its environment is ipso facto intelligent. The neurons in the brain are not what makes a brain intelligent. It's the emergent meta-structures formed by neurons which allow us to think the way we think.