Intelligence
Jan. 31st, 2011 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mukulrawatAnother thing that i read in Mark Hansen's blog :
" No one knows where the borderline between non-intelligent behaviour and intelligent behaviour lies; in fact, to suggest that a sharp borderline exists is probably silly. But essential abilities for intelligence are certainly:
to respond to sitations very flexibly;
to take advantage of fortuitious circumstances;
to make sense out of ambiguous or contradictory messages;
to recognize the relative importance of different elements of a situation;
to find similarities between situations despite differences which may separate them;
to draw distinctions between situations despite similarities which may link them;
to synthesize new concepts by taking old concepts and putting them together in new ways;
to come up with idea which are novel."
– Douglas R. Hofstadter, in Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
" No one knows where the borderline between non-intelligent behaviour and intelligent behaviour lies; in fact, to suggest that a sharp borderline exists is probably silly. But essential abilities for intelligence are certainly:
to respond to sitations very flexibly;
to take advantage of fortuitious circumstances;
to make sense out of ambiguous or contradictory messages;
to recognize the relative importance of different elements of a situation;
to find similarities between situations despite differences which may separate them;
to draw distinctions between situations despite similarities which may link them;
to synthesize new concepts by taking old concepts and putting them together in new ways;
to come up with idea which are novel."
– Douglas R. Hofstadter, in Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
