I was just right now kinda thinking that, where comes intelect from, in a evolutionnary way, and now im like, the basic for all intellect must be memory, i mean, isnt memory the reason we have the ability to compare and asosiate, and isnt the ability to compare and asosiate the way we are abel to see paralells and contexts, and isnt paralells what holds this society together ?
So whats my question, well what is intelect ?
Isnt intelect just having memory of things, and the ability to put this memorys into context ? Now how do we put it into context, istn that really the smart part ? And isnt this, the ability to se parralels, just an instinct, a biological function.
Ergo knowing how to build a computer is no difffrent from knowing how to wipe your ass, its just a question of what we choose to remember, so why do we feel so smart, when we build a computer ? A pathetic feeling in my eyes, i can understand it but a person shouldnt feel that it is any diffrent from wiping ones ass
(this has nothing to do with awerness, it is simply about what we call intelectif it can be seperated.)
Evolutionary speaking psychologists seem to think that pattern finding was key to the development of grammatical language and from there we got the whole apparatus of abstraction etc. Memory is necessary, but its not the trigger.
yeah memory is necessary, and intelligence has evolved to be pattern recognition. We are anticipatory machines, finding isomorphisms abundant in nature, useful for predicting the future. Thus aiding the survival of our selfish genes.
Firstly there are many different kind of intelligences as noticeable from people whom are talented at different things i.e. some people are good at languages, logic, people (Emotional intelligence) etc etc. Everybody has all these intelligences to varying degrees. Most of these are ‘measurable intelligences’ in a crude way anyhow as done by the IQ test and then an average score produced
Some of these intelligences clearly ‘benefit’ from good memory but there are other factors involved as becomes clear when one considers the Vocational Intelligence (I’m using VI here to describe someone good with their hands) a very important intelligence type for the human evolutionary path in making tools! Is memory ‘useful’ to this intelligence? To a degree however problem solving is I would suggest a much more important.
So this brings us down to building blocks of the measurable intelligences
The building blocks would be things such as memory and problem solving,
possibly imagination??, abstract thought?? Depending on how developed these building blocks are for each individual relates to potential in the benefiting measurable intelligences.
Just a thought anyway, you’ve set off quite a lot in my measly little brain all at once.
PS
I think there are many research papers into how apes started getting cleverer. Considering chimpanzees:
I believe the latest involves memory being expanded because of a need to remember when and where fruit trees that come into ripe are ( A main source of food- obviously in a rainforest ripe fruit goes off quick and fruit trees are widely scattered) and also being in group (has many advantages - we’ll leave why etc for now) facial recognition empathy etc were all advantages. But chimps had limited problem solving ability so somewhere something caused humans to vastly expand this to survive. after that language developed inciting increasing larger demand on memory, politics, empathy etc .
Anyway that’s enough for now.
Look what u made me do.
I’ve only gone and thought of stuff.
Sorry if it’s a bit incoherent, I wrote it as it came to me.
Aero
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