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Originally Posted by harmonygirl can you explain degrees of freedom to me? |
In human terms, it is the same as the freedom to act, free will and volition. In math and physics, degrees of freedom are the directional properties of vector quantities maybe also tensor quantities but tensors deal with dimension higher than three becoming more abstract and difficult for me to explain.
About intelligence linked to the mind, it is beyond human logic or math or physics to analyze it. We know we have it but we don't know how we got it from. It seems we are born with it. It could be a gift or it could be an emergence by the process of evolution. If that is true then other species had equal chances of going through this evolutionary process. The dinosaurs have ruled for millions of years yet there is no fossil records that indicate they could have prevented their own catastrophic demise. If we cannot prevent our own forthcoming demise then we are no more intelligence than the dinosaurs.