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So often, we assume that real thinking—serious thinking—is done alone, bent over a book or a notepad. But in fact, humans think best when they are interacting with others. Social activities like debating, storytelling, and teaching activate mental processes that remain
... See moreAnnie Murphy Paul • The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
First, intelligence is situational—there is no such thing as general intelligence. Your brain is one piece in a broader system which includes your body, your environment, other humans, and culture as a whole. Second, it is contextual—far from existing in a vacuum, any individual intelligence will always be both defined and limited by its
... See moreErik Larson • The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
~ Cordelia • Tweet
intelligence is not something which exists, but something one does; it is active, interpersonal and generative, and it manifests when we think and act.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Intelligence is a very general mental capacity which, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test taking smarts. Rather, it reflects a broader and deeper capability for
... See moreIain McGilchrist • The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
William Deresiewicz • The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - William Deresiewicz
In the context of the Gene Keys intellect refers to the thinking capacity of the human mind, which bases all its suppositions on its two main objectives — the acquisition of facts, and the skill of manipulating those facts via language.
Richard Rudd • The Gene Keys: Embracing Your Higher Purpose
More often than none. I start thinking that the really intelligence does not come from amount of knowledge. Intelligence comes from being able to take compartmentalize concepts, and compare and contrast with everything that you know. To understand that ideas and concepts are going to be challenged and to set them in stone will reduce your chances
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