Hegel asserts that intelligence, consciousness, and understanding lack any natural essence, proposing that behaviors commonly seen as innate, like breathing, do not equate to intelligence. Nature is framed as brute materiality, distinguished from consciousness, which is seen as an immaterial process. While certain behaviors are learned, natural elements like mountains and rivers exist independently of human action. Consciousness itself is a form of externalization, a means of perceiving oneself from a distance, blurring the lines between the internal and the external.
For Hegel, intelligence is always artificial, with nothing natural about understanding, consciousness, or intelligence itself, challenging the idea of innate behavior versus learned actions.
For Hegel, nature is brute materiality, representing just the raw elements without the intricate layers of culture or consciousness added, solidifying the division between natural and artificial.
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