What Is Intelligence?
Added 2020-10-13 02:30:45 +0000 UTCIt is a basic law of nature that anyone who declares aloud to someone else that they themselves are very smart is definitely not. But what is intelligence? Let's think about it.
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I linked it before, but it bears repeating - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFZFjoX2cGg
Fran Blanche
2020-10-15 16:51:55 +0000 UTC"Squirrels can do amazing things". You are generous, Fran. Well, they can spend all day trying to get at the bird seed in a receptacle floating in mid-air, hung off of an un-navigable cable I've set up, that's easy for (flying) birds to get at. But yes, intelligence is not only humans' domain. And squirrels do thrive, despite their lack of grounding in Kant's treatises on morals, and come to think of it so do most of us humans :) Whether squirrel or human, we need knowledge to both survive, and thrive.
Peter Knazko
2020-10-14 07:25:50 +0000 UTCIf 22.3 is reference to your IQ score, and it's worked out the way I think it is, then I'm impressed, even if it is meaningless.
David Peaker
2020-10-13 21:29:41 +0000 UTCI still find it hard to believe that so called top scientists still believe in mumbo jumbo fairies and all powerful , all seeing entities and they will pop down to their meeting place on a Sunday and suck up all the rubbish with vigour, then on monday go to work and prove that the universe is 13.5 billion years old or something equally amazing.
Mike Hughes
2020-10-13 12:58:48 +0000 UTCOh so very, very true, not mentioning any names of course... both in the US and UK in respective positions.
Mike Hughes
2020-10-13 12:53:25 +0000 UTCCan of Worms Alert: People can be hyper intelligent but have huge blind spots of introspection and self-discipline to distinguish facts from opinion vs mythology. e.g. a scientist or physician who is brilliant in their field but is also a religious literalist who thinks the world in 6000 years old and believe and speak to invisible people. Overcoming selection and confirmation biases is part of becoming enlightened so that you're not fooled by wishful and magical thinking yet some people fail that key trait of striving to be a neutral agent in the discovery process. If you can't distinguish facts from beliefs...you get the political climate we have today.
lohphat
2020-10-13 05:19:24 +0000 UTCI agree wholeheartedly with what you say Fran. I definitely see the difference between knowledge and intelligence, It's 5am here and I'm watching this as I am up with problems with my IBS. So glad you made this video, it's given me a focus that I needed right now. It's not a meaningless video and I'm happy to support this along with all your other types of video. Your declaration of people who declare themselves smart, really aren't seems very pertinent right now, both in the UK and the US.
Dr Andy Hill
2020-10-13 04:07:57 +0000 UTCExtremely we!I said.
William Alsing
2020-10-13 02:49:41 +0000 UTC
