FlashDangerpants wrote:Ken, if your claim is that you are every bit as intelligent as Einstein (or even our resident genius Hexhammer - notoriously the only clever person around these parts!), it's not unfair to ask you to explain this apparent anomaly by giving an account of what intelligence is.
You can surely recognise that the suggestion is highly unintuitive. And being as clever as everyone else, you can see what we can see - which is that it needs justification.
You may feel that HC has demonstrated bad manners in his method of asking. But that remains to be seen, as if all people are, counter-intuitively, equally smart; perhaps this same logic will apply and we may turn out to all be equally polite as well. Either way, the question is dangling and we all would like to know ASAP if we are truly our own private little Einsteins!
Besides the assumptions made in the first sentence, thank you very much for asking for clarification.
To Me 'intelligence' just means
the ability to learn, understand, and reason. The ability to, is the main part, and can only come from the open Mind because what has already been learned, understood, and reasoned is already held or stored within the brain. Of course My perspective of Mind and brain is different and unintuitive to others, but that is for later.
As for "little einsteins", i think, we ALL have
this ability to learn, understand, and reason. It is, to Me, what separates human beings from all the other animals. The first human being to imagine the wheel for example certainly did not come to imagine that by just using the already gathered knowledge in the brain. Obviously if something has not been invented yet, then imagination is needed first for it to even be conceptualized. That person who first imagined a wheel had to think "outside of square" literally. This way of thinking or imagining outside of and/or beyond and past the "normal" or intuitive thinking comes from the open Mind. 'Intuitive', for this thread, is the knowledge that we have already stored in the brain. To Me "unintuitive" is the brand new ideas, beyond any known knowledge. This can only come from imagining or imagination.
'Intellect' is the already gathered and stored knowledge one person has. This is what is used to pass exams, tests, etc. and to gain qualifications. How intellectual a person is absolutely not level. Every person has different amounts of intellect, all depending on how much knowledge and what types of knowledge they have stored/remembered.
'Intelligence', however, is just
the ability to learn, understand, and reason. This ability is what is needed to discover, invent, and create any thing new. To Me, every human being is equally able to learn, understand, and reason. Besides the very obvious and extremely rare cases each human being is able to learn, understand and reason something that is beyond our basic survival instincts. This idea has to also be looked at from the perspective of ALL human beings as a species also. As it has already been alluded we need to look at over time human beings'
the ability to learn, understand, and reason newer things all the time.
