Brain Storm: philosophy of mind term paper

Sent to Dr. G with an apology and excuse for all of the lateness this semester:

I have elliot's book now and have used it to write this paper and may copy pages that I need for my paper. I want to write about the meaning of intelligence, thinking, and consciousness and how to best test for them. I guess I want to use a functionalist approach of defining intelligence as a measure of classifying a being's ability to perform a specified function. This lets us use terms like emotional, social, intellectual, and even physical intelligence. It also lets us test for levels of intelligence like with an IQ test. With this reasoning, it follows that tools can be rated by their instrumental or computational intelligence. We should understand thought as a tool used in conjunction with action by people to express their functional intelligence. I'm not really sure what I have to say about consciousness. Something about awareness. Maybe it should be classified by a being's intelligence factors. Like a being with certain levels of intelligence is conscious. Really consciousness is just awareness and so if a being has any awareness of its self and its action, then it has some level of consciousness. I guess that means that for every category of intelligence, we can make a category of consciousness. An object that is conscious, is consciously intelligent. If it is only somewhat conscious, then we can classify its consciousness accordingly. We can test for different aspects of intelligence and consciousness through a variety of ways. I'd say the turing test is a good way to test for conversational intelligence, but not great for conscious intelligence. I wanna talk about psychometrics and this "anytime universal intelligence" test. So..that's the paper idea. I kinda just made it up and there may be some other term that I should know that already fulfills the role of the word intelligence in my brief explanation. If so, then I may need serious redirection. But if not, and this sounds semi-coherent, I'd appreciate suggestions if you wouldn't mind.