The true meaning of intelligence?

Do you believe intelligence can be determined by knowledge specifically confined to the sciences of Mathematics, Language.

Or do you believe intelligence lies in ones ability to form and complete intricate thoughts. An ability to think at a higher level of conciseness?

I think intelligence is equal parts accumulated knowledge and the ability to articulate said knowledge.

knowledge is basically memorized facts.

intelligence is your ability to utilize your knowledge

you could know lots of stuff, but if you have low intellect, you can't utilize that which you know. You can hardly know anything, but be able to effectively utilize what you know to form logical thoughts and ideas.

I consider myself to have high intellect, but low knowledge. I have a lot of trouble increasing my knowledge, but once I learn something, I'm able to utilize that knowledge incredible well.

Your ability to use the sum of your life experiences in tandem with the knowledge you've gained in order to form your own thoughts and ideas.

Intelligence, to me, is divided into categories which are then divided further into other categories but they all fall under the ranking of something like "how well or fast your brain works".

There's memorization which includes the amount of memory, ideas and concepts and facts and numbers, that your brain can store. Math and science and history would have presence more or less in this category.

There's implementation of knowledge and interpretation, in which critical thinking and reading fall under mostly, as well as listening skills. Interpretation can also be seen in a more or less conscious level when looking at sports players, who use quick thinking to call audibles, oranlyze quickly in order to make a decision on where to throw the ball.

And there's innovation of ideas or creativity this is most prominently seen in the arts, and in inventors and is, in my opinion, probably the most overated and underated trait of intelligence, as appears to be immeasurable by traditional means.

Intelligence, when measured, should be a rank of all of these traits, combined, or so seems reasonable to me. However, there is no most or least importance. That's like comparing apples and oranges. The difference in the types of ability that you state are both neccesary to be intelligent, but not neccesarily required, as history has shown us before.

Knowledge means nothing if you can't use it in the real world.

Sherlock Holmes for example, he does not give a fuck about philosophy and astronomy, but he experts on other knowledge like British Law and Chemistry (some) because he knows that he needs it in order to solve cases.

I consider him as an intelligent man because he can use his knowledge in "real world".

Forgive me if I am wrong but that's how I interpret the meaning of intelligence.

To me, intelligence is how fast you are able to successfully react to unknown situations,

Of course there is intelligence in the way where you can use known knowledge in helpful ways to your practice, but to me, that should be expected at all times.


So yes, If you were to be expected to use Law/Mathmatics/Chemisty, but still able to learn and use inginuity to overcome those unknown situations. Than I would call you an intilligent person.

All very good answers. Very Intelligent answers!

But I guess in the end it comes down to a persons own personal definition of intelligence. But in saying that, would you say that the entire concept of intelligence is abstract?

"Intelligence can never be measure on your score in the test papers"

There is something called as Multiple intelligence, which is knowledge in every field.
its not just the ones ability to form and complete intricate thoughts. Nor An ability to think at a higher level of conciseness.

Some could be an intelligent performer, an intelligent leader, or an intelligent thinker.
Intelligence is no bounded in the mind, it can be sought in every actions.

I partly disagree.

People might explain what the word intelligence is based on what they know. And some people might not really know what the exact definition of the word intelligence is.

So, they ended up explaining what the word means to them. I'm not saying it's wrong, I'm saying if it's close enough to the real definition or not.

I believe that the concept of intelligence is when people is able to analyze certain situation and able to give a solution.
The exact definition can be explained in the dictionary.But only we,humans can justify intelligence based on the situation that we faced.
When knowledge is synchronized with intelligence,that would be defined as wisdom.
And wisdom usually occurs in those humans use their knowledge in order to amplify their intelligence to be used in critical or simple situation.

unless we quote from a dictionary, any definition we give for anything is only what the word means to us. I wouldn't say that the entire concept is abstract, but it's certainly not a simple thing to define

Yes, I agree with you.
Even each dictionary sometimes can give you a different definition.
Just like how you define a picture, each people explain it differently but it has an exact meaning to it, but to get and understand the exact meaning of it is never as simple as breathing.

Conciseness is a way of explaining something effectively in a few brief words. Intelligence has something to do with conciseness but I doubt that was the word you were looking for. The first sentence of your second paragraph also lacks a question mark to indicate that it is in-fact a question.

I may be nitpicking, but it's hard to decipher what the actual question is here. I think it's, "Can intelligence be rooted in mathematics or in the ability to form complex thoughts?" These two things are not mutually exclusive. You can form complex thoughts even if your intelligence is rooted in physical laws that are describable in mathematics. Why wouldn't it be? Mathematics has to be able to describe intelligence because mathematics is modeled on universal laws. Your intelligence could not possibly defy mathematics because it cannot defy the reality, which physical math is based on. Basically the question then reduces to, "Does intelligence operate outside of the realm of reality?". The answer is no because synapses firing can be described by real processes and therefore intelligence is bound to reality.

Math models reality. Intelligence obeys reality. Therefore intelligence is rooted in math.

Damn, I was just about to say all that.


... I-I swear!

I believe intelligence is the ability to improve knowledge. It is where one can understand the basis of theorems and other things.