being able to realize and admit it when you're wrong, and that you don't really know everything... being able to observe and analyze what you see and experience, and then use it for something practical... being able to absorb and remember facts and details for recall and use at a later date... most importantly being able to bullshit and sweet talk people into believing that you really know what you're talking about
THis is a great question. I cannot define intelligence like Webster may be able to. Just adding to the original question: where is the fine line between intelligent and non intelligent?
Is being knowledgable considered intelligence though? Personally I think its what you do with your knowledge that makes you intelligent
Like I said, the presence of knowledge and the lack of ignorance. The lack of ignorance means that you know how to use your knowledge in productive ways.
Intelligence is like love or hate, good or evil; there's a certain line we can all draw and recognize, but when it comes right down to it, it's a totally subjective idea.
rate of assimulation and proccessing of new data. NOT a limitation on ultimate capacity other then in the context of combined with time, i.e. lifespan, during which to accumulate it. er, at least that's what i.q. seems to measure. there are other, perhapse more meaningful concepts too. perhaps depth of proccessing and recognition of relationships between data elements and whole areas of data constructs. (intimately utilitarian to creative synthasis, though not always a limiting factor in all creative proccessess). there may be simpler anecdotal ways of saying all that. i just couldn't think of them at the moment. =^^= .../\...
Intelligence is the ability to understand information and the thirst to question it. There are two kinds of smart people in the world, absorbers and questioners. The absorbers are just booksmart, they can read and comprehend, but the questioners go beyond that and actually question what they learn. I came up with my theory when I was in advanced placement English in high school and discovered our class was always divided, one half of the room just wanted to do the work and move on, while the other half wanted to learn more and had no problem stopping on a certain point and expanding on it.
there's all kinds of intelligence. there's people who can hardly read and write, but you put anything into their hands and there magicians with it. there's people who flunked out of school who are artists with wood and paint and art. but our bizarre little word has declared that if you don't do well in school, you must be a drooling meathead. dave dropped out of school, and he's a techie guy now. i did really well in school and still love learning all sorts of things, how's, why's and wherefores, but i'm useless. my mediocre abilities do me no good now. but for some reason these people i've just discussed thing i'm SO SMART. it's ridiculous. they're the smart ones.
