Well, intelligence IS you, in a sense. 'Your brain' is effectively you, your psyche, instincts, personality and memories are all simply running electrical signals. Pinning down one's thoughts and intellectual capacity to a set standard is impossible if you want it to be an accurate representation. See, I hate shows like 'Australia's Brainiest *insert whatever social category here* that rate people's intelligence via general knowledge.
General knowledge, in my mind, does NOT equal intelligence. At the risk of sounding arrogant, I think I can honestly say that I'm a moderately smart person. Yet, I know absolutely jack about geography (I get lost regularly in this relatively small town that I've lived in for 19 years), who past famous leaders are, etc, and I have little 'practical' knowledge (ie. How to 'cope' in the 'real world'). I believe that intelligence is more defined by one's logical reasoning, philosophies and ideals. But then, much of that is opinion, so an 'intelligent' view in one person's eyes may be 'really fucking stupid' in the eyes of another.
In a nutshell, intelligence is pretty much impossible to categorise in a literal, statistical sense. But it's obvious that some people are more psychologically developed than others. In the end though, it all comes down to how hard one's willing to work with the basic structure that their mind is created with via genetics, and how they choose to use it.
At 8/18/06 05:12 AM, SaiNT_SiLEiGHtY wrote:
you fail at spelling philosophical
You fail at contributing to the topic. Way to ignore a good conversation and make yourself look like an asshat by pointing out a small, irrelevant detail.