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What would you say is the basic/needed requirements for a person to be called very intelligent
What is a very intelligent person?
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What would you say is the basic/needed requirements for a person to be called very intelligent
Intelligence is degree of complicated thinking. Itself it has little to do with being correct or not. So a very intelligent person would think in X parameters readily, while an "averagely intelligent" one would think in a fraction of X. The latter can still (and easily) be closer to being correct in a vast number of issues, including of course practical issues
(which is why we have the distinction between experience and intelligence as well).
Agreeing with the person asking the question.
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Hmm. I'm not so sure about that.
That's a bit like saying everyone is an Olympic athlete in their own way. I suppose they might be. But only in a special sense of "in their own way".
I'm inclined to think that adding "in their own way" sucks all the meaning out of whatever statement precedes it.
Which isn't to say I decry the sentiment. I just don't think it tells us much about what intelligence might be. Or might not be.
That's a bit like saying everyone is an Olympic athlete in their own way. I suppose they might be. But only in a special sense of "in their own way".
I'm inclined to think that adding "in their own way" sucks all the meaning out of whatever statement precedes it.
Which isn't to say I decry the sentiment. I just don't think it tells us much about what intelligence might be. Or might not be.
dusters
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What Perf said.
Yeah, that.
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I am of positively olympian intelligence when it comes to the ability to read the comments on slate, jezebel, the Atlantic for hours and waste the day away.
Yes, everyone has muscles, and can do things with those muscles. Everyone is their own athlete and can do their own things.
Same with the brain and intelligence. I reject the idea of hierarchical ranking of intelligence, or the ability to accurately measure one's intelligence against another. And since we have more or less the same brain across all humans, I believe that everyone is just as intelligent, and holds the same abilities as anyone else. People get good at certain things (taking tests, math, what have you) through practice, not innate intelligence. They just utilized their brain for a specific thing and got good at it. Everyone is capable of that, outside of those who are handicapped due to disease and what not.
Yeah, but as you know, some people will run 100metres in a record speed, some in a more average speed, some in rather notably slow speed, and some will collapse if they try to run.
warpus
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1. Questions his/her worldview all the time
2. Never stops learning
3. Excels at rational thinking skills
4. Stays away from pseudoscience (this is to weed out people who use homeopathy and those stupid bracelents)
2. Never stops learning
3. Excels at rational thinking skills
4. Stays away from pseudoscience (this is to weed out people who use homeopathy and those stupid bracelents)
That's due to difference in practice. Just because there are those who run at an average speed, does not mean they aren't capable of eventually running 100 meters in records speed should they train enough.
Perfection
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No, they'd have better things to do.
Up to a level, i agree. But i don't think that anyone can reach the same high level in anything, provided they trained hard. Eg i would not get to be Michael Jordan even if i trained in B-ball 24/7 as a child.
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How do you know this?
Perfection
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because I have better things to do
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