reid@uwvax.ARPA (Glenn Reid) (11/02/83)
When people's intelligence is evaluated, at least subjectively, it is common to hear such things as "He is brilliant but never applies himself," or "She is very intelligent, but can never seem to get anything accomplished due to her short attention span." This seems to imply to me that intelligence is sort of like voltage--it is potential. Another analogy might be a weight-lifter, in the sense that no one doubts her ability to do amazing physical things, based on her appearance, but she needn't prove it on a regular basis.... I'm not at all sure that people's working definition of intelligence has anything at all to do with either time or sur- vival. Glenn Reid ..seismo!uwvax!reid (reid@uwisc.ARPA)
karl@trsvax.UUCP (11/20/83)
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trsvax!karl Nov 9 20:11:00 1983
" .... I'm not at all sure that people's working definition
of intelligence has anything at all to do with either time
or survival. "
Glenn Reid
I'm not sure that people's working definition of intelligence has
anything at all to do with ANYTHING AT ALL. The quoted statement
implies that peoples' working definition of intelligence is different
- it is subjective to each individual. I would like to claim
that each individual's working definition of intelligence is sub-
ject to change also.
What we are working with here is conceptual.. not a tangible ob-
ject which we can spot at an instance. If the object is concep-
tual, and therefore subjective, then it seems that we can (and
probably will) change it's definition as our collective experi-
ences teach us differently.
Karl T. Braun
...ctvax!trsvax!karl