On 16 Jun 2014, at 1:14 am, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> That guy was Edward de Bono. He was the first one to say that intelligence
>> is the horsepower of the car whereas thinking ability is the skill with
>> which the car is driven.
>
> If that's Edward de Bono's "theory" of intelligence then he might be able to
> get a job in a fortune cookie factory but not at Google or Apple or
> Microsoft, it explains nothing about why some things are intelligent and some
> things are not, it doesn't say a word about how intelligence actually works.
> And that's why Mr. de Bono is not a trillionaire. When a person (or more
> likely a machine) comes up with a good theory of intelligence YOU WILL KNOW,
> probably in just a matter of hours.
John,
hW
De Bono was not theorist, that is true. He merely worked with intelligence and
showed how thinking ability can be hoisted up to more effective levels despite
intelligence or IQ as educators refer to it, IQ being one of the favourite
Aristotelian boxes into which people are dumped, forever to sink deeper. What
makes a human intelligent is CREATIVITY and that is by now well understood and
no, machines (the human constructed ones) cannot do that yet. Nobody ever
understands what creativity is about who does not separate perception from
thinking. I asked de Bono in 2012 if he felt it were possible that one day
machines would actually think, according to his definition of true thinking,
which involves a studied use of creativity. His response was "only if they are
allowed to do their own perception otherwise they will only be zombies."
hY
You don't need to have a theory of intelligence in order to use one, any more
than you need to know how to tune a piano in order to know how to play one or
understand the workings of a combustion engine to know how to drive a car.
There is less of a need to have a theory of intelligence than there is a need
for people to act intelligently. Someone can be plain daft and still show
excellent thinking skills. There are many examples of those who made good with
absolutely no chance at all in the IQ stakes.
hR
You don't have to worry about the size of your dick as long as you know how to
use what you've been born with. Size may matter in some arcane respect but
skill at use is what counts. The person who ultimately comes to possess a
"winning theory of intelligence" may well be Mary Bloggs of Blainey who has no
university education, was home-schooled and who cannot even complete a simple
crossword, yet her perceptual ability outstrips a Nobel Laureate.
hG
Apart from that, I would say that a way to understand the workings of
intelligence is to simply say that this is the speed factor involved in
neurotransmission.
hR
You will in all probability say that this is wrong or inadequate. Why should
today be different.
hW
Some people have fast, powerful minds, others do not. The ones who don't have
the V8 engines upstairs tend to be the ones who exercise caution and think
slowly. You might have a lousy IQ but you can still succeed in life if you use
what you've got and practise thinking. Machines, when and if they ever get an
intelligence, will have precisely this issue to deal with as well.
hR
Intelligence is not the main issue. We've all got one but what we do not yet
adequately understand is what makes a PERSON. For my money that has something
to do with Comp.
Kim
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