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| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
Smart and intelligent are two very different things though. Intelligence is all about processing speed whereas one is considered smart if they have a large breadth of information readily available for recall. |
I believe intelligence is more about relevance, which implies speed.
Like I said in the other thread, I associate intelligence with understanding of the 'whole', and if a topic is understood as a whole rather than piecemeal collection of facts, then it's much easier to be relevant, and that means it's easier to communicate to people, because what you are saying or doing may well be more minimal, but it's much more likely to be exactly the right thing.
so yes, i believe intelligence, at least in the way i understand it, makes people better overall communicators, because their words and actions will tend towards relevance.
check this out:
Wholeness & The Implicate Order by David Bohm (quantum physicist)
| quote: | | The word 'relevant' derives from a verb 'to relevate', which has dropped out of common usage, whose meaning is 'to lift' (as in 'elevate'). In essence, 'to relevate' means 'to lift into attention', so that the content thus lifted stands out 'in relief'. When a content lifted into attention is coherent or fitting with the context of interest, i.e. when it has some bearing on the context of some relationship to it, then one says that this content is relevant; and of course, when it does not fit in this way, it is said to be irrelevant |
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