Quotes About Intelligence

He was no longer, at least in his mind, the most wanted man in America. He was an analyst, a seer, a prognosticator going over his reams of data, moving their pieces, twisting them, testing them, discounting some, fleshing out others, slowly transforming disjointed intelligence into something that made sense.

David Baldacci

But the more intelligence you had beforehand, the better the eventual fight would go.

inside his head. It was said that savants

The apes are, after all, behind the bars of their cages, and we are not. Eager for the experiments to begin, they are also impatient for their food to be served, and they seem impatient for little else. After undergoing years of punishing trials at the hands of determined clinicians, a few have been taught the rudiments of various primitive symbol systems. Having been given the gift of language, they have nothing to say. When two simian prodigies meet, they fling their placards at each other.

If intelligence is to be understood as an unconditioned act of perception, its ground cannot be in structures such as cells, molecules, elementary particles, etc. Ultimately, anything that is determined by the laws of such structures must be in the field of what can be known, i.e. stored up in memory, and thus will have to have the mechanical nature of anything that can be assimilated in the basically mechanical character of the process of thought.

One might then suggest that in intelligent perception, the brain and nervous system respond directly to an order in the universal and unknown flux that cannot be reduced to anything that could be defined in terms of knowable structures.

Intelligence and material process have thus a single origin, which is ultimately the unknown totality of universal flux. In a certain sense, this implies that what have been commonly called mind and matter are abstractions from the universal flux, and that both are to be regarded as different and relatively autonomous orders within the one whole movement...It is thought responding to intelligent perception which is capable of bringing about an overall harmony of fitting between mind and matter.

So, we see that the ground of intelligence must be in the undetermined and unknown flux, that is also the ground of all definable forms of matter. Intelligence is thus not deducible or explainable on the basis of any branch of knowledge (e.g. physics or biology). Its origin is deeper and more inward than any knowable order that could describe it. (Indeed, it has to comprehend the very order of definable forms of matter through which we would hope to comprehend intelligence.

The Turing Test never claimed to be able to verify anything metaphysical, but that is where the debate is going. It is a debate about authenticity, which asserts or denies that there are attributes which are uniquely human, not so much conventional intelligence, but love, care and generosity. Turing believed that intuition was computable. Even if a computer passes his test, we won't know if he was right or not.

While Hall was taking it upon himself to re-arrange the leadership of the navy, and shuffle the cabinet, he was also perfecting the art of the intelligence dirty trick. He created his own fake code book, to be used only at a time of national crisis – called the Secret Emergency War Code – and had it sold to the Germans by a representative in Rotterdam for £500.

It is a total mystery how we evolved minds capable of piloting cars through wild maneuvers using a wrist to steep while shouting at a cell phone. The creationists are fools for focusing on animal evolution. Darwin explains nature! He has more difficulty explaining us.

Someone once said that one measure of sentience was how much energy a sophont spent on matters other than survival. Fiben

the towering standing wave that composes the symphony of thought.

Might human sapience be a fluke? Evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr said—"Nothing demonstrates the improbability of high intelligence better than the fifty billion earthly species that failed to achieve it.

It wasn't that I wanted to be a writer; I just didn't want to be stupid.

Some species are so disdainful of brains that they treat them as an expendable luxury. There are species of sea slugs that have mini-brains when they are young. They use them as they voyage through the seas looking for a perch from which they can sieve food. But once they've found their perch they no longer need such an expensive piece of equipment, so they eat their brains. Some have joked, cruelly, that this is a bit like tenured academics.

Pretending to others that your opponents are stupid may sometimes be a sensible tactic. Believing that they are is usually a serious mistake.

There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.

A wise king does not garner all wit, instead he also allows his cunselors to be wise.

La mayor diferencia entre los ejecutivos exitosos y los que fracasaron era la inteligencia emocional (Fernández-Aráoz, 2001).

En otras palabras, tener inteligencia emocional no le garantiza el éxito, pero no tenerla le garantiza el fracaso (Cherniss y Goleman, 1998 en Hyatt, L., Hyatt, B. y Hyatt, J., 2007).

I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion .

She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.