agreed that a large part of "smart" is having a big enough pattern-matching apparatus think there is more to it than this, especially on the highest ends thin

agreed that a large part of "smart" is having a big enough pattern-matching apparatus think there is more to it than this, especially on the highest ends think the next biggest impact comes from having a large solid internal mental model of the world, of cause-and-effect, of action-reaction, perhaps two or more separate models, one or more models are "the way it is supposed to work" and one or more models are "the way it might work" think the next higher level of smart/genius is the purely creative/original/innovative/brainstorming/fount-based: ideas and urges and visions and impulses that arise from somewhere that a purely logical/controlling/categorical mindset can't nail down, and yet, it... happens. and yet we feel it, we experience it, we feel it, we can imagine it. whether it is real or fantastical, possible or impossible. I'd argue that the very smartest of us all may somehow leverage from all three of these levels