John Homan wrote:
To me intelligence has
>nothing to do with social perceptions, acquired knowledge, opinion or
>attitude. What it means to me is the ability to interpret and correlate
>disparate information, and with itextrapolate new and original thought
>and ideas.
So that's a subjective opinion, to you, and it says that intelligence only
has one meaning which is the one which cancels out
>
>all the garbage we see when
>people try to quantify the artistic value of a painting or define the
>taste of a wine?
>
Frankly I'm not interested in QUANTIFYING anything, but in being as sure as
I can that we're not excluding too much - my view is that everything is
contingent - Old Chinese proverb say 'the only thing which is constant is
change'.
Cheers (!)
Mairian
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