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What does Innate Intelligence mean in the Green Books?

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In Stephenson’s framework, Innate Intelligence is the inborn organizing intelligence of a living body. Its role is to keep the body actively organized and coordinate its parts for mutual benefit.

Principles 20–24 develop this idea: a living thing has an inborn intelligence; its mission is active organization; its function is adaptation for coordinated action; and that adaptation is limited by the properties of matter. This is Stephenson’s philosophical account of living organization.

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“A “living thing” has an inborn intelligence within its body, called Innate Intelligence.”

Ralph W. Stephenson · Chiropractic Textbook
1927 edition · PDF page 30 · Principles 20–24

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