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There's a word for that

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is a bio-psychological potential to process information that can be activated in a cultural setting to solve problems or create products that are of value in a culture.

According to Gardner, an intelligence is 'a biopsychological potential to process information that can be activated in a cultural setting to solve problems or create products that are of value in a culture.'

Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Intelligence is a moral category. Theodor Adorno

morality

is a No-'Man's Land between intuition & instinct: one perceives & creates as a vehicle of a higher unity.

a No-'Man's Land between intuition & instinct: one perceives & creates as a vehicle of a higher unity.'

is a subjective perception, much like sexual attractiveness.

I think intelligence is totally subjective... it's like sexiness. David Fincher

is any ordering process, which if limited to the speed of our brains, would not include the biosphere, if allowing for slower speeds, would.

As Bateson points out, if we accept any ordering process as intelligent, then the biosphere is indeed intelligent... but if we save the word 'intelligence' only for those ordering processes that move at the same speed as our brains, then Nature is merely mechanical, not intelligent. To an extra-terrestrial with a different time-sense than ours, this question would not arise at all.) (wilson 'prometheus' 114)

is at once the most complex phenomenon in the Universe and a profoundly simple process.

Intelligence is: (a) the most complex phenomenon in the Universe... or (b) a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is (c) both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting.

is closer than anything to true humility, for it is impossible to feel pride in one's intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.

There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one's intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it. Simone Weil

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