What is Intelligence?

[wesxo]

This is a question i ponder and somehow fail to figure out an answer to every time it crosses my mind, what makes some people so talented and distinctive at reasoning and understanding? What makes the question so engaging, is the amount of intelligence that varies between people, some people are master Filmmakers for example, and some people are great musicians but could never pick up a camera and create a film. 

Some people are too intelligent to fall into the traps of political dogma and ideology, and some people run head first into it like dogs chasing after a car, it's interesting. It's subtle, for some reason i always had the privilege of understanding hypocrisy, being able to instantly understand the mindset of various people, and even their intentions, it makes you wonder "Am i really that smart" or do people just run around with a vacant mind and lack self reflective skills. 

And here's some food for thought, scientists studied Albert's Einstein's brain some time after his death, they found certain areas of his brain to be distinctive and larger in comparison to other modules found within the brain, his parietal lobe was bigger (responsible for Spatial reasoning and Visual Thinking) than the average person. There's no way to prove whether or not if he was born this way, or his brain grew in response to him using that part of it in particular so often.

And that made him talented at being able to imagine his thought experiments in the most realistic way possible, so this literally gave him a advantage creatively and scientifically. Try getting a bunch of undereducated individuals, who have to blow dust from off of their brains, to imagine the geometrical framework that's required to reconcile space & time with each other, and they'll start smoking from their ears, even trying to explain it to them will be like explaining stock market math to a beaver.

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 07:28 PM by wesxo

[Princess Arabia]

Nobody has intelligence. No one is intelligent. It's just intelligence. It's just bodies. Intelligence seems to run through these bodies. It's not really, but it seems to, to appear as a person with intelligence. Einstein was just as dumb as a church mouse. (expression). It's whatever this is being intelligence. It's whatever this is being an equation called C=MC2. You're not asking this question, the question asks itself. There are no intelligent people just people that seem intelligent.

[wesxo]

7 minutes ago, Princess Arabia said:

Nobody has intelligence. No one is intelligent. It's just intelligence. It's just bodies. Intelligence seems to run through these bodies. It's not really, but it seems to, to appear as a person with intelligence. Einstein was just as dumb as a church mouse. (expression). It's whatever this is being intelligence. It's whatever this is being an equation called C=MC2. You're not asking this question, the question asks itself. There are no intelligent people just people that seem intelligent.

That's some real insight, we are stupid in theory, and in reality... no wonder the Aliens don't want shit to do with us .

[Princess Arabia]

12 minutes ago, wesxo said:

That's some real insight, we are stupid in theory, and in reality... no wonder the Aliens don't want shit to do with us .

Lol. No we're not stupid. There's just no we, but that's another story for another time. 

[Ishanga]

Real Intelligence is not based on any sort of memory.

Most of what we call intelligence is not really that, or its is a low level of intelligence.. Why we Humans dominate this planet is because of our intellects, we are masters of using our memory of events, and our imagination of the future, combined with the gift of creativity and a strong built in desire to live another day and expand in all ways, we dominate all life forms today, but this is low level use of intelligence because its still on the Survival level of Life..

Yes, via music, movies, art and such we showcase another level that is beyond Survival, that is for sure, but true Intelligence is pure creativity and organization!  Just think of the smallest thing, an Atom, do You think we know all there is too know about an Atom, or a proton or neutron? We may think we do, but in a few years something else will be discovered about it, it is the same with everything and anything in the Universe including Yourself, we think we know everything about, then something else is discovered, but where did all of this come from, how did it all come into existence from Nothing??

That is true Intelligence, what was there before the supposed Big Bang, or Bangs, how did all of this, what we can see via telescopes and microscopes, come into material existence from Nothing? What has allowed Evolution to happen, what is allowing Gravity to happen, what is allowing a tree/leaves to change color at a certain time of the year when it doesn't know about time?  There are a billion things like this and more.. There are millions of chemical processes going on in your body right now, what is controlling it, what is monitoring it, how did this level of sophistication come about, not only in You but in Billions of others.. That is True Intelligence, Absolute is True Intelligence, way beyond what our minds or science will ever be able to explain or find out..

 

Edited Thursday at 12:13 AM by Ishanga

[Ramanujan]

intelligence is the ability to solve problems