Intelligence

The tsunami that brought havoc in Indonesia on Dec 2004, led to thinking ways to alert people on impending doom to soften the impact of these natural calamities. Now, in the news, scientists are boasting that they have a satellite that records data of unusual events happening on Earth. Read here. They say that the satellite is intelligent enough to make its decisions, but it led me to asking: "What is Intelligence?" Some say that well, it's programmed by humans and it will decide according to what it is programmed to do. Maybe intelligence is something that people deciding on their own without anyone telling them to. Yet, there are levels of intelligence.

I guess the bottom line here is that intelligence is a gift to be used for the good of man-kind, and it doesn't matter if someone is intelligent. There are people who are not that intelligent yet they are rich, and some people are very intelligent yet so poor. Well, it also doesn't matter if you're rich or poor, but what matters most is that you are a good person who is willing to help in times of these disasters.