Can you define intelligence?

[ShallowDiverDave]

See title, and attempt to answer the question...and yes, I have been drinking.

 

[Diver0001]

The ability to learn adapt and understand

Higher intelligence makes these things go faster.

R..

 

[Diver0001]

Alternatively you could say that it's the insight that kissing a shark will be bad for your lips *before* you kissed the shark.

Saying after that fact that one will avoid kissing upside down sharks in the future shows adaptation but not real learning and therefore a lack of intelligence.

R..

 

[jagfish]

I've heard it said before that the way we define the answer to this question is the person we wish to be/become....

 

[tstormdiver]

I would say intelligence is a person's abillity to take all possible knowlege of a situation, think through all the possible positive outcomes & negative consequences, then formulate a plan of action based on the thought processes just mentioned & act on that plan, with contingency plans for when plan A doesn't pan out.

 

[Mako Mark]

the ability to be drunk and not write stuff on the internet that you maight later regret.

 

[jagfish]

the ability to be drunk and not write stuff on the internet that you maight later regret.

 

[Mike Veitch]

the ability to be drunk and not write stuff on the internet that you maight later regret.

Hey!!!

i resemble that daily!

 

[seadoggirl]

Intelligence level is directly related to the amount of time someone's mouth is running. I can keep my mouth shut and people will have to guess. Open my mouth and they KNOW!

 

[divad]

I would say intelligence is a person's abillity to take all possible knowlege of a situation, think through all the possible positive outcomes & negative consequences, then formulate a plan of action based on the thought processes just mentioned & act on that plan, with contingency plans for when plan A doesn't pan out.

This is pragmatic, but impractical, alternative/back-up to intelligence.