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A very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience.^So the soil in the northern latitudes may not be very good for growing large quantities of cereals, vegetables and other things.
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^Learn how HP listens to customers, & how we help solve business and IT problems with the HP BladeSystem c3000 and c7000.
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^Read more> > Dec 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine 12/1/2009Imagination, Concentration, and Generalization: Peirce on the Reasoning Abilities of the Mathematician .
Defining Wisdom | A Project of the University of Chicago 3 February 2010 18:45 UTC wisdomresearch.org [Source type: Academic]
.It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts.^HP Study Guides, for those who appreciate a more text book approach to learning a new skill.
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^Pick up a book you’ve always wanted to read or learn a new skill.
Cutting Edge Wisdom 3 February 2010 18:45 UTC www.cuttingedgewisdom.com [Source type: General]
^Other useful skills come from being in the "trenches" at all levels, learning "street smarts" from experience.
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.Rather, it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings — “catching on”, “making sense” of things, or “figuring out” what to do.^Yeah, “masking the effects” does make sense and does point better to things to come.
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^For this reason, it may make sense to convert our overall energy consumption to equivalent power units.
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^And how do we use our wisdom to determine who needs to be involved in making those deeper decisions (as well as the simpler ones) .
January 2002 Wisdom Society Survey Results 3 February 2010 18:45 UTC www.co-intelligence.org [Source type: Original source]
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Individuals differ from one another in their ability to understand complex ideas, to adapt effectively to the environment, to learn from experience, to engage in various forms of reasoning, [and] to overcome obstacles by taking thought.^They are different from one another.
January 2002 Wisdom Society Survey Results 3 February 2010 18:45 UTC www.co-intelligence.org [Source type: Original source]
^Read more> > Jan 01 2003, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine 1/1/2003Innovation and Social Learning: Individual Variation and Brain Evolution .
Defining Wisdom | A Project of the University of Chicago 3 February 2010 18:45 UTC wisdomresearch.org [Source type: Academic]
^It occurred to me recently that that is one reason I think too much is made of the human ability to increase carrying capacity.
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.Although these individual differences can be substantial, they are never entirely consistent: a given person’s intellectual performance will vary on different occasions, in different domains, as judged by different criteria.^Although these individual differences can be substantial, they are never entirely consistent: a given person's intellectual performance will vary on different occasions, in different domains, as judged by different criteria.
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^Of course, these are personal matters and only an individual's conscience can compel him or her toward the path of sustainability.
Carrying Capacity -- Environmental Protection 6 February 2010 10:49 UTC eponline.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^This required the evolution of an entirely different type of genetic regulation because genes had to operate differently depending on which segment they might be in.
Life on Earth 14 January 2010 11:23 UTC www.palaeos.com [Source type: Original source]
.Concepts of “intelligence” are attempts to clarify and organize this complex set of phenomena.^An attempt is made here to give a firm and unambiguous definition to the concept of sustainability and to translate the definition into a series of laws and hypotheses which, it is hoped, will clarify the implications of the use of the concept of sustainability.
[Exponential Functions] Reflections on Sustainability, Population, and Carrying Capacity: Denial of Population Problem 6 February 2010 10:49 UTC www.scribd.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.Although considerable clarity has been achieved in some areas, no such conceptualization has yet answered all the important questions, and none commands universal assent.^All these questions are not answered.
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^Of course, there is no way to *convince* ALL of humanity to join such a...not mass suicide, but conscious species reduction.
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^But when the other declined on account of his great age, and because as yet there was no such custom, Antony himself set off immediately to the mountain.
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.Indeed, when two dozen prominent theorists were recently asked to define intelligence, they gave two dozen, somewhat different, definitions.^And those who were wounded before, gave thanks, because they were no longer being wounded, and because they had petitioned for this gift, that there would be this difference.
Wisdom - Latin English Study Bible 3 February 2010 18:45 UTC www.sacredbible.org [Source type: Original source]
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| Researcher | Quotation |
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| Alfred Binet | Judgment, otherwise called “good sense”, “practical sense”, “initiative”, the faculty of adapting one’s self to circumstances . . . auto-critique.[5] |
| David Wechsler | The aggregate or global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with his environment.[6] |
| Cyril Burt | Innate general cognitive ability[7] |
| Howard Gardner | To my mind, a human intellectual competence must entail a set of skills of problem solving — enabling the individual to resolve genuine problems or difficulties that he or she encounters and, when appropriate, to create an effective product — and must also entail the potential for finding or creating problems — and thereby laying the groundwork for the acquisition of new knowledge.[8] |
| Linda Gottfredson | The ability to deal with cognitive complexity.[9] |
| Sternberg & Salter | Goal-directed adaptive behavior.[10] |
| Reuven Feuerstein | The theory of Structural Cognitive Modifiability describes intelligence as “the unique propensity of human beings to change or modify the structure of their cognitive functioning to adapt to the changing demands of a life situation.” [11] |
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Intelligence is a property of the mind. People do not agree on what intelligence is, exactly. The idea comes from Latin intelligo. A part of intelligence allows people to solve problems. These problems may be easy to solve. They may also be hard to solve, and involve abstract thought.
If a solution is found to a problem, it can be remembered. That way, the problem is solved more quickly when it comes up again. That is what is called learning.
There is disagreement about what has more impact on intelligence, genetics or environment.
Some people say that intelligence can be tested. An intelligence test for them would be solving many problems in a very short time. Most of the problems have to do with seeing things, or telling what a rotated shape will look like. Some are also related to mathematics, for example to tell what number is next. Other tests have to do with words. After doing such a test, they will then calculate a number they call Intelligence Quotient (IQ). Since most of the words on these tests have to do with Latin, some people say that an Intelligence Quotient only measures how much a person has learned Latin. People in other parts of the world have very different ideas about the mind.
Some people try to build machines that try to act as if they were intelligent. That is related to Computer science and is called Artificial intelligence (man-made "intelligence" that is not real).
Some say that intelligent behaviour is when an organism (a living thing) reacts enough to a stimulus.
Here are sentences from other pages on Intelligence, which are similar to those in the above article.
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