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 Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 8:26 am
first, i know i cant spell, but here is my question........what is intelegence, i mean think about it, in some cultures americans seem like the smartest of all, and other see americans as the diseased plague of stupidity........so I ask again, what is intelegence?????
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Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:21 pm
Well when you compare humans to animals, I think it's the ability to reason and question things, you know? But as far as people compared to people goes, I don't think there's a specific line of "intelligence" and "non-intelligence," if you know what I mean.
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:57 pm
Define intelligence: knowledge of an event or circumstance, information.
I think why some cultures believe americans are smarter because those cultures haven't been taught with enough knowledge. Other cultures which think americans are more stupid is probably because they've been taught more or better.
It all depends how much you "input" information in your brain.
Feel free to criticize or whatnot.
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:39 pm
i dont think intelligence has anything to do with book smarts, but rather what you know. anyone can figure out a complicated equation once they're given the ropes and shown the steps you need to complete the it, but that doesnt make you smart. We would need to ask a whole lot of other questions to actually figure out what intelligence is, and to be honest im too hungry to think right now XD. in my philosophy class someone is going to be trying to answer that question, so i will get back to u when he does.
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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:03 am
in lamen terms to me for intelegence is knowing when and where to use what youve learned how you see fit, ie a teacher teaching students.
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:03 am
Intelligence is not taught but learned. You can read a history book and read about all the great people in it, but you weren't there to experience it. The facts that you take in are just facts, and you only memorize them. If you were taking a science, adding chemicals together, you would learn from the experience.
Intelligence is self-taught knowledge. It is learned from observation. You cannot gain this kind of thing from a classroom, or a teacher. You are your own teacher, and you learn from life around you.
Respectfully,
Konotanumara
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:17 am
Konotanumara Intelligence is not taught but learned. You can read a history book and read about all the great people in it, but you weren't there to experience it. The facts that you take in are just facts, and you only memorize them. If you were taking a science, adding chemicals together, you would learn from the experience. Intelligence is self-taught knowledge. It is learned from observation. You cannot gain this kind of thing from a classroom, or a teacher. You are your own teacher, and you learn from life around you. Respectfully, Konotanumara no offence but isnt that wisdome
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:46 am
Pray tell, yami, why is it not welcome? It fits well within the scope of the discussion, and was presented in a respectful manner.
EDIT: ah okay, wisdom is very different from welcome.
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:57 am
Wisdom and intelligence are very similar, yet different. Wisdom is gained from loss of experience, intelligence is gaining from the experience. Wisdom is more life knowledge, whereas intelligence is common-knowledge.
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:44 pm
Intelligence isn't a matter of how smart you are- it's a matter of how you understand things. 3nodding
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:15 am
I find it amazing how much stock people put into a person's IQ. True, people who have a higher IQ are more likely to make intelligent decisions and learn things easier. However, true intelligence is something that occurs on a situational basis and can't be measured at all. Even someone like George W. Bush can make an intelligent decision (even as unlikely as it is to happen), and a genius can seem like a complete moron (this is usually the result of over thinking something terribly simple). Something I have always considered foolish is for humans to compare their intelligence to the other members of the animal kingdom.
Animals, when in their element, are far smarter than a human can ever expect to be. A good example is when you see a large mass of animals running from something as one, follow them. They aren't running for their health. They're running from something, but often a human's curiosity will get the better of them and they'll want to know what the commotion is about. So the animals survive, while the human stand like a fool to die while seeing what is causing them to run. In that situation the animals are far smarter than the human. But humanity believes it has a superior intelligence simply because animals don't care about art, science or the other achievements of "civilized" society.
Anyway, that's how I see things. People and animals all have the capacity for intelligent decisions, but even those who are accounted as the smartest will fail to be intelligent from time to time.
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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:59 am
Intelligence is the ability to learn about, learn from, understand, and interact with one’s environment.
This is but a general description of that ability. More specific abilities of intelligence include, but are not limited to:
* Adaptability to a new environment or to changes in the current environment
* Capacity for knowledge and the ability to acquire it
* Capacity for reason and abstract thought
* Ability to comprehend relationships
* Ability to evaluate and judge
* Capacity for original and productive thought
Taken from Carol Bainbridge
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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:47 pm
For me, it's as simple as this:
Intellegence is knowledge, weather it bee from books, study or real-life happenings. Wisdom is putting your intellegence to practice. It takes intellegence to know HOW to do something, and it takes wisdom to actually use your knowledge to actual use, say a surgeon. You can know how to preform an open-heart surgery from a text book and memorize it by heart, but you need wisdom to be able to apply the knowledge when you actually have to do it and do it right.
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:06 pm
Intelligence necessiarly isn't book smarts or street smarts. It's a combination of both. It's nice to know what's going on in the world but at the same time, you need to know how to survive and get along in this world. Personally, I think America focuses too much on book smarts and stuff that not everyone's good at. It all depends on your view.
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:19 am
People That Can Type.
That's Intelligence.
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