Is Everything Infinite Intelligence or Not?

[SQAAD]

Is it right to call God Infinitely Intelligent when we have nothing to compare it to? A friend of mine suggested that we could call God infinitely stupid and it would make no difference since there is no comparison. He claims the only significance the label ''intelligence'' has is if you contrast it with ''non-intelligence''.  I would agree that it might be tricky what pointers you choose to call God names with BUT still the Actuality , The BEING of God would not change despite whatever labels.

I told him that there is only Intelligence and nothing else. I used the metaphor of height. All people have some height. You can say that there is lack of height relatively but height always exists no matter what. It is a constant. So there is only height and non-height doesn't exist. He didn't agree with me on this one.

What do you guys think? 

Is it appropriate to call God Infinitely Intelligent? Is there any lack of intelligence in the Universe?

Edited July 17, 2021 by SQAAD

[Godishere]

Infinite intelligence is a relative term used to describe the experience of Absolute being. Infinite intelligence/stupidity is a duality of the relative mind. So there is confliction of relative/Absolute. So yeah, we can call it whatever we want

[_Archangel_]

44 minutes ago, SQAAD said:

Is there any lack of intelligence in the Universe?

We can say that Intelligence is the ever-active capacity of infinite mind to create patterns.
This means that everything is the work of this capacity, forever. "intelligent"-"non-intelligent" is just a discrimination pattern made-up by Infinite Intelligence.
 

Edited July 17, 2021 by _Archangel_

[Leo Gura]

Perhaps your friend is infinitely stupid.

[OneHandClap]

I think we can call reality (or God, if one prefers) an absolute wellspring of intelligence. There is nowhere else from which it could arise. Then again, I think I grasp what your friend is trying to suggest in regards to the futility of words. Intelligence is a distinction that we make in comparison to a lack of intelligence. But seeing as there is no possibility for non-intelligence to exist, it's a bit of a moot point. The fact that we are having a conversation is proof of intelligence (which here we can term synonymous with order). Without intelligence, there is no structuring. There is no logical assembly. Intelligence is a prerequisite of existence in any recognizable form. 

[SQAAD]

@Leo Gura

15 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Perhaps your friend is infinitely stupid.

ahahahahahaha 

[SQAAD]

@OneHandClap

14 hours ago, OneHandClap said:

I think we can call reality (or God, if one prefers) an absolute wellspring of intelligence. There is nowhere else from which it could arise. Then again, I think I grasp what your friend is trying to suggest in regards to the futility of words. Intelligence is a distinction that we make in comparison to a lack of intelligence. But seeing as there is no possibility for non-intelligence to exist, it's a bit of a moot point. The fact that we are having a conversation is proof of intelligence (which here we can term synonymous with order). Without intelligence, there is no structuring. There is no logical assembly. Intelligence is a prerequisite of existence in any recognizable form. 

Yes. I think Intelligence is all that there is. There is only intelligence and relatively different levels of intelligence.

Edited July 18, 2021 by SQAAD

[rls2020]

Ethymology of the word "intelligence" is interesting;  it derives from the Latin intelligentia or intellēctus, which in turn stem from the verb intelligere (to comprehend or perceive) ethymologically inte-ligere menas something like reading something from within, or reading between things (inter + lego).

If God is all within all (essence of all etc. = truth) or he is everything between everything (he conncects it all into whole = love), and he is concious of himself then he is reading everything from within (or between things) simply by his  own self-conciousnesss. So he is paradigmatically intelligent.

 

In other words god by knowing himself knows evrything from within - so he is paradigmatically [i.e. exemplary ] intelligent [inter-lego]

 

Edited July 18, 2021 by rls2020