Intelligent behaviour

According to the Oxford dictionary, the word intelligence is derived from intellect, which is the faculty of knowing, reasoning and understanding. Intelligent behaviour is therefore the ability to reason, plan and learn, which in turn requires access to knowledge. 

Shaw A., Astrochemistry From Astronomy to Astrobiology, John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 2006. Chela-Flores J., The New Science of Astrobiology From Genesis of the Living Cell to Evolution of Intelligent Behaviour in the universe, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. 

This chapter explores the possibility of a biological basis for the processes that underlie behavioural adaptation in road users. Behavioural adaptation in the road safety context has been desorbed by some as a manifestation of intelligent behaviour (Smiley, 2000 Brown and Noy, 2004) that is intrinsic to human nature (Smiley, 2000). It is not surprising, then, that humans (ostensibly the most intelligent species on the planet) would have the ability—and inclination— to adapt their behaviour in ways that improve the likelihood of evolutionary success, or that allow for tradeoffs in terms of other measures of success. Behavioural adaptation is not a new... 

Anyone who deals with road safety knows the frustration of designing a safety countermeasure to reduce risk, only to have drivers use it in unintended ways. The subject of behavioural adaptation has always had a great appeal to me, perhaps because it reflects the independence of the road user in the face of regulators and engineers and the complexity and oft times unpredictability of human nature. Adaptation is a sign of intelligent behaviour and, for the most part, an invaluable human characteristic. 

Study of the solubility behaviour of the compound. A semi-quantitative study of the solubility of the substance in a hmited number of solvents (water, ether, dilute sodium hydroxide solution, dilute hydrochloric acid, sodium bicarbonate solution, concentrated sulphuric and phosphoric acid) will, if intelligently apphed, provide valuable information as to the presence or absence of certain classes of organic compounds. 

Jin, Y., Levitt, R. E., Christiansen, T. R. and Kunz, I. C. 1995 Modelling Organisational Behaviour of Concurrent Design Teams. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design Analysis and Manufacturing, 9(2), 145-158. 

These exposures may sometimes have long-term effects, not least on children. For instance, reduced birth weights or birth lengths have been associated with environmental levels of bisphenol A (NTP-CERHR 2008), PFOA (Fei et al. 2008), phthalates (Latini et al. 2003) and others (IFCS 2003a), and effects on the central nervous system that may lead to effects on intelligence or behaviour (IFCS 2003a) have been associated with environmental levels of lead, mercury and PCBs. 

Quantitative agreement, of course, is not to be expected, as this critical intensity is not susceptible of exact definition at all. The comparison shows that the intensities for which the quadratic law is transformed into the linear law are of the order of magnitude anticipated, and also that the behaviour at different temperatures becomes intelligible. 

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