The case for expanding the definition of intelligence (bigthink.com)
from cm0002@lemmy.world to science@mander.xyz on 22 Mar 16:24
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Paragone@mander.xyz on 26 Mar 14:10 collapse

www.amazon.com/…/0452281377/

identified many years ago that our definition of “intelligence” is far-too-narrow, & anybody who’s read it, can understand why I say the evidence is thiat the orginal definition of “intelligence” was intended to lock-out all kinds of intelligence that male academics were not good at…

( 1 example, right from that book, is … it usually is possible to find 1 girl in a grade-school-class who can identify who’s friends with whom, who’s enemies with whom, and why, having all that stuff mapped-out in her head…

I’m autistic.

I can’t even manage to be anybody’s present-friend, more than a few minutes per year?

Been a few years since I had friends…

What any such girl is demonstrating absolutely is an intelligence!

Denigrated by male “authorities”, of course, as is to be expected…

Gender-prejudice taints all our world, doesn’t it?

Lipman’s “That’s what SHE said!” backs this…

www.amazon.com/…/B0716GZT1P/ )

( obviously, these aren’t “affiliate” links )


Another item, though, music isn’t an intelligence, it is a whole set of intelligences:

  • Rhythm
  • Harmony
  • Melody
  • Improv/Jazz
  • Composition
  • Polyrhythm…

& I rather suspect that ALL intelligences are fractal, like that…


Nick Lane’s Royal Institution Talk, on yt, also indicates that the “atom” of awareness may be mitochondria ( since jamming them jams our awareness, as the anaesthetic xenon, iirc, demonstrates )

nick-lane.net/…/how-the-krebs-cycle-powers-life-a…