Monday, March 27, 2006

Intelligence

Is there a universally held (well on Earth anyway so "Earth held") agreement of what attributes an "intelligent person" is considered to possess? And if so what are the most important of those, some thoughts are:

1. Good memory
2. Pattern recognition
3. Making connections between sets of data (intuition, cognitive stuff here)
4. Prudence
5. Honesty

Is there such a thing as "emotional intelligence" and what might it be. Is the richest man in the world the most intelligent man in the world? Is someone who relies on factual recreatable evidence more intelligent than someone who goes on faith?

And has 5, "honesty" got anything at all to do with "intelligence"?

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