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What is Intelligence?

Anonymous Thu 16 Sep 15:55:59 2021 No.13648897 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>13648948 >>13648969 >>13649115

Plenty of definitions around. Some even say it's pointless.

But even so, how would you try to define it? Is it basically just pattern recognition or abstraction?

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Anonymous Thu 16 Sep 2021 16:08:57 No.13648936 Report

Quoted By: >>13649043

It's hard enough to test, let alone definitively define.

It's probably an abstraction of multiple different aspects of something, roughly combining them into one vague aspect.

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Anonymous Thu 16 Sep 2021 16:11:17 No.13648948 Report

Quoted By: >>13649027

>>13648897
General aptitude for mentally demanding tasks. Seethe.

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Anonymous Thu 16 Sep 2021 16:15:56 No.13648969 Report

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>>13648897
Neuron count, dendretic connectivity, and absence of brain damage. Good luck getting that above pushed through academia even though it's been proven wholely correct.

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Anonymous Thu 16 Sep 2021 16:35:21 No.13649027 Report

Quoted By: >>13649269

>>13648948
Now you'd have to define what's mentally demanding.

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Anonymous Thu 16 Sep 2021 16:39:39 No.13649043 Report

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>>13648936
Maybe it's hard to test because we aren't able to define it?

I agree it's multiple aspects combined that gives the idea of intelligence. But what aspects would be considered critical in order to be defined 'intelligent'?

Pattern recognition perhaps? The ability to make connections and learn? Creativity?

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Anonymous Thu 16 Sep 2021 17:04:21 No.13649115 Report

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>>13648897
Spatial. The ability to abstract and synthesis in the mind's eye.
Verbal. The ability to concisely transfer thought through medium (writing and speaking)
Memory. The ability to retain information and recall it.

Those are the big three I can think of off the top of my head, and usually the barometer for what most consider intelligent traits in humans. Your mileage may vary.

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Anonymous Thu 16 Sep 2021 17:39:05 No.13649269 Report

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>>13649027
>Now you'd have to define what's mentally demanding.
Why?

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