Intelligence is the ability to remember the right thing at the right time. Every act of reasoning is simply remembering the right postulate at the right time. Indeed, all of problem solving is simply remembering an abstracted memory.
That “at the right time” is what makes computers such dumb-asses. A computer can remember a great deal, but it cannot abstract, cannot ‘remember’ that the last 5 times the user wrote dc/, the next command was cd/, and combine that with a ‘memory’ that cd and dc get transposed a lot.
So, step up and poke holes in my proposal, please.
There’s more to it than that. The people we regard as very intelligent may or may not have a great memory, but they’re extremely good about discovering connections between concepts. The true geniuses are the people who make connections that no one else has seen before.
But, thassa kicker. I am defining intelligence as the ability to see one concept and “remember” another concept, so as to make the connection between them.
You mean to say, the connections that “average” people can’t make.
If someone discovers some brilliant connection without being aware that it’s already been discovered, would that person be any less of a genius than the “original discoverer” ?
Hehe… When I read the title of this I thought you’d be ranting on how people were stupid enough to believe that the children of England’s lower classes were being considered as a food source.
But, isn’t reason just remembering the right thing at the right time? Isn’t the ability to figure out that X creates Y based entirely on your ability to “remember” what happens when X ocurred in the past, or to remember that X1 > Y1, X2 > Y2, and thusly remember that X > Y?
And what is creativity, exactly? Isn’t it just chopping up memories finely enough that it is difficult to recognize them, and assembling them into a coherent whole?
