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define intelligence?

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bonus question: what is the difference (if any) between intelligence, smartness cleverness, and wisdom?

(i wanted to ask who is intelligenter between x & y but then realized intelligence might mean different things to different people)
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4meAndyou · F
I believe intelligence is the ability to grasp learned knowledge quickly, and retain it in order to apply it to lived experiences.

Smartness and/or cleverness, combines intelligence with a mental and/or physical ease in bringing forth solutions to problems as they present themselves. Smartness might include WIT, which is a facility with language, usually used to make other people laugh.

Wisdom is gained through deep thought and experience, and the application of same to ALL lived experiences of the past, in an effort to apply to oneself and others acceptable standards of living, (and possibly morality), to ease ones passage through all of the vicissitudes of life.
GerOttman · 61-69, M
Intelligence is a measure of capacity. However utilization and efficiency are also important measurements. Picture two desks, one is smaller but well organized, the other is large but cluttered and sloppy. The larger may appear more impressive but the smaller is often more usable.
HeadAboveWater · 31-35, M
Being well rounded, situational awareness, survival, mathematically inclined, social skills, being layered, humor, entertaining, discipline.. its comprised of alot imo
There's different types of intelligence but I don't feel like explaining it all because I'm burned out
Kuronekko · 41-45, F
Depends on whether you are a slime mould finding food in a maze or a expert mathematician lol It's kinda relative.
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
@Kuronekko you get those random videos too lol
The ability to hold and understand many different view points as well as remain psychologically flexible to integrating new information.
NOS4R2 · 41-45
Its all contextual. A brilliant mathematician would be stupid in a wilderness survival situation, just as dog, no matter how smart, doesnt make a good goldfish.
Although in saying that, cleverness is sort of quick and wisdom is very subtle
Rolexeo · 26-30, M
Pattern recognition, problem solving, thinking outside the box, predicting the future

 
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