Intelligence
Intelligence is not measured by how much you know, but by how much you have the capacity to learn - Francesca Zappia.
image by: Albert Einstein
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The Emergence of Intelligence
Did our intelligence arise from having more of what other animals have? The two-millimeter-thick cerebral cortex is the part of the brain most involved with making novel associations. Ours is extensively wrinkled, but were it attened, it would occupy four sheets of typing paper. A chimpanzees cortex would fit on one sheet, a monkeys on a postcard, a rats on a stamp. Yet a purely quantitative explanation seems incomplete. I will argue that our intelligence arose primarily through the refinement of some brain specialization, such as that for language.
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Can We Stop Confusing IQ With Intelligence?
Life smarts' is very different from book knowledge.
Intelligence
Intelligence is one's ability to learn from experience and to adapt to, shape, and select environments. Formal studies of intelligence date back to the early 20th century.
There is no agreed definition or model of intelligence
By the Collins English Dictionary, intelligence is ‘the ability to think, reason, and understand instead of doing things automatically or by instinct’. By the Macmillan Dictionary, it is ‘the ability to understand and think about things, and to gain and use knowledge’.
What Is Intelligence?
Intelligence is an elusive concept. When one of NOVA's producers asked roboticist Rodney Brooks "What is intelligence?," he half-jokingly shot back "What color is jealousy?" But Brooks nonetheless offered his take on how we might recognize meaningful artificial intelligence. And other experts—Steven Pinker, Nicholas Humphrey, and Seth Shostak—shared their insights about human intelligence as well as the search for intelligence beyond Earth.
What is intelligence? For millennia, western literature has suggested it may be a liability
When technologists assert that computers may soon be smarter than humans and that artificial intelligence represents an existential threat to humanity, they distract us from grasping the underlying ethical problem, which lies not in the computer but with the humans who create and use it.
What is intelligent life?
Our human minds hold us back from truly understanding the many brilliant ways that other creatures solve their problems.
Why Brain Size Doesn’t Correlate With Intelligence
People have long been tempted to link brain size and cognition. The intuitive notion that a “big brain” means “more intelligent” was first threatened some time ago, when we discovered animals with larger brains than ours: elephants and whales.
Brainiacs, not birdbrains: Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primarily human attribute
Whether crows, ravens, and other “corvids” are making multipart tools like hooked sticks to reach grubs, solving geometry puzzles made famous by Aesop, or nudging a clueless hedgehog across a highway before it becomes roadkill, they have long impressed scientists with their intelligence and creativity.
Emotional Intelligence: Is EQ the New IQ?
Emotional intelligence has become a hot topic in the world of business and education. Since the early 1990’s emotional intelligence has moved from a fluffy, obscure concept to a well researched and popular term today.
The tipping point: From animal intelligence to human intelligence
To me, the most revealing feature of human intelligence is that it is primarily societal, rather than individual. Most of what each of us knows or understands is taught to us, rather than things we figured out. We have found a way to accumulate intelligence across individuals and across generations, and because of this, collective human intelligence has exploded over the past few thousand years,
The Emergence of Intelligence
Language, foresight and other hallmarks of intelligence are very likely connected through an underlying facility that plans rapid, novel movements.
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