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- Yes it is! - No, it isn’t. Is it intelligence to attribute this quote to Monty Python, or isn’t it? Remembering things is traditionally considered a part o
by nialse 6mo ago
- Yes it is!
- No, it isn’t.
Is it intelligence to attribute this quote to Monty Python, or isn’t it?
Remembering things is traditionally considered a part of intelligence, memory that is. The subject has been discussed for ages. Personally I favor the statistical definition based on the observation that given a range of different intelligence tasks, individuals that succeed in one task generally succeed in other tasks. There is shared variance, a g-factor. Intelligence.
- apsurd 6mo agoGood point. I used to heavily criticize rote memorization for being distinct from intelligence because: school. It's painful to go through so many years of school where everyone is seemingly complicit on rote memorization being equal to "winning". I grew up, and it still pains me but I had it better explained to me that memorizing things doesn't equal intelligence, but those people that remember a lot have a much larger pool of information to draw upon. So whatever definition I use for intelligence, like synthesis, well, a large pool of information to draw from probably helps a whole lot.
- rcxdude 6mo agoI would also say that it matters how you remember things. It's possible to memorize a large quantity of facts without really meshing them together into a coherent whole, and this is a lot less useful than remembering things through the relationships between them.