Intelligence - Introduction

Intelligence

By Salim Meghani

INTRODUCTION

The actions of intelligence are very hard to define. What makes us
intelligent? This
question is by far the most complex question that mankind endeavours to
answer.
Using Medical Science and Technology we still cannot answer the
question
completely.

Mankind began to communicate probably as early as the caveman era. The
first real
communication was probably that of a caveman asking his mate for food
or water by
making a particular type of noise. I wonder what a caveman would make
of us today!

You see our intelligence seems to evolve because knowledge is evolving
all the time.
We make records of our knowledge and what is fashionable today may not
be
tomorrow. As long as the knowledge is deemed to be correct (or
fashionable) then
society will endear it. Otherwise it will reject it.

Mankind uses knowledge to teach its young. To 'learn them correctly'
(to speak).
Although learning and intelligence are inextricably linked they are
different things.

A fish may move in a certain way to avoid its enemies. But can it be
said to be
intelligent or just have copied the movements from a skool of fish when
young?

A Dolphin communicates its feelings to others. Is it more
intelligent?

What we learn we must use to prove that we are intelligent. We use our
knowledge to
debate, express our feelings, our needs etc. The use of knowledge to
express oneself
correctly can thus be said to be intelligent behaviour (at least as far
as mankind is
concerned).

So how is this intelligent behaviour constructed? How does it
evolve?

If one opens a box and asks a child how many sides it has, it might say
4, or 6. But in
reality it has 12 (counting the flaps).

What we perceive (understand), determines behaviour in turn determining
our
intelligence.

In the same way, perception can be used as a test for truthfulness or
reality.

So perception is very important because it controls our actions and our
emotions,
ultimately determining our behaviour.
Expressions and Intelligence.

What is logic? Well, when we are babies we learn about logic by
'exploring' our
environment. We learn to crawl then the world becomes our oyster! We
also learn to
manipulate objects by feeling them and moving them from one place to
another.

All these actions are determined by our previous actions. So we learn
about
expressions the fundamental building block of intelligence.

Suppose I take the following expression and evaluate:

0+1*1=1, then I take the answer and feed back into the
expression:

1+1*1=2.

It is entirely logical, because I have taken a solution and fed it into
an expression to
get another solution.

The ability to pass a solution to our expressions is about how 'we
behave' and is
'what makes us intelligent.'

Our behaviour is determined by a number of factors:

1. What has happened previously.
2. What is happening now.
3. Inputs and outputs to both 1) &; 2).
4. Our emotional balance.

Emotional Balance.

So what is emotion? Well, we feel and how and what we feel determines
whether or
not we act in a particular way (or not).

Emotional Balance, is the sum of our feelings at any point in
time.

Our feelings are determined by sensation, which satisfies our needs
(desires, hunger,
fears) etc. Together they make up our emotions.

Reasoning.

Reasoning is the process of expressive sorting, which involves
evaluating our actions
and emotions using perception. Learning is the act of reasoning and can
mean
committing information to memory and creating a new way of perceiving
things.
Society endeavours to 'learn' us throughout our lives through
socialisation.