Monday, February 21, 2005

On the subject matter of Intelligence.

Well actually I wrote the previous post as some thing of an intro. If you can understand it in the right sense. It is not about me.
Here i will discuss what I understand about Intelligence. First of all intelligence can be divided into analytical and synthetical. The first one is about cognition , that is it is the ability to recognise a pattern while other is synthesis , that is to extrapolate the existing patterns the mind has recognised to create newer ones.
The patterns can be recognized in various fields Maths, Science, Music, Painting, Sculpture, Human behaviour, Animal behaviour, even Linguistics. It is the ability to percieve a particular pattern that makes someone really intelligent.
So when Mozart was able to see such a pattern and extrapolate it , he could create music unparalleled. Ramanujan was able to see patterns in nos more clearly than any ordinary man could. That was what his genius was about.
How to recognize intelligence is much more difficult. But it is about how much pattern he can see. This means that we can say that patterns percieving ability of the people is what i see as intelligence.
So can we say that some one is more intelligent than the other? Not really in my view. But some one might be better at some kind of cognition.

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