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question:is-it-misleading-or-a-mistake-to-define-intelligence-as-careIs it misleading, or a mistake, to define intelligence as care?
The paper poses this to challenge its own slogan.
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extracted_from(2023) · Witkowski, Olaf · Doctor, Thomas · Solomonova, Elizaveta · Duane, Bill +1
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- Distinguishing intelligence as capacity from its expression.
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- intelligence as caregatesThe slogan capturing the enabling and embodying function that care performs in active problem solving.
Related by similarity (8)
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- Core definitional claim: Care and intelligence are dual aspects of the same fundamental capacity—ability to detect and act on discrepancies between actual and optimal states.
- Central thesis: expansion of cognitive boundaries through care for others' stress states is fundamental driver of intelligence scaling across evolution and lifespans
- Central concept proposed as a robust, practical invariant linking intelligence, stress-reduction, and moral obligation across biology, AI, and Buddhist thought.
- Authors' shorthand: intelligence fundamentally requires and is defined by engaged concern for problem-solving.