What is Real Intelligence?

Adi Da: "Mind is the first “robot” that human beings ever made. In the usual discussions of such matters, artificial intelligence is presumed to be something generated by computers.

In actuality, however, language is the first form of artificial intelligence created by human beings.

There is no mind. Mind is a myth. There is language, which is programmed by brains, and which, in turn, programs brains. However, there is no tangible existence to “mind” itself, absolutely none.

Nevertheless, human beings identify with the “mind” as “self”, and thereby invent destiny for themselves, and even project that “self”-imagined destiny into an idea of time and space beyond the present physical lifetime. Mind is an interior projection of a language-program that, in its imaginative elaboration of itself, conceives of purposes and ideas, in the realm of illusion, for which there are no corresponding physical data. Human beings are all living in a “virtual world” of mind. Human beings are, characteristically, egoically “self”-identified with a “robot”, an artificial intelligence. Real Intelligence is tacit, or intrinsically wordless, living existence."

A good, wise friend (Stuart Camps) commented: 

"The entire life-cycle of rocks is amazing and mind-boggling... from magma deep in the Earth, appearing upwards as lava into mountains and valley structures, weathering to sands and fine grains, into beaches, solidifying into sedimentary rock, and limestone coming from coral reefs and sand, then being pushed up into mountains, on and on... A rock is but a tiny aspect of a process much larger and older, always changing and transforming... and to us, who come & go so quickly, their process seems very very slow... a whole planet in cycle over billions of years..."