Originally posted by seagrass
we must have posted at the same time... funny.. we have something in common.
That's funny that your husband finally found out he was smart....I love stories like that. Now if only I can convince my husband.

BUT what about looks --is it possible to have "looks" intelligence? Is that part of the whole "people intelligence" part? Some people know how to make themselves and others look better OR if they are just plain naturally beautiful.....does that fit in somehow?

Originally posted by arbiture
Fantastic topic! In this vein I would like to point out why I think SETI efforts are doomed to failure. Even SETI has stated the EM emissions from Earth are greatly diffused after only 2.5 light years. Alpha Centauri could be broadcasting their version of the "leave it to beaver" and we would never know. Also we make the assumption that an intelligent species must be a technological species. Thats because we always use ourselves as the measuring stick to judge others. Unless "they" can invent their version of a "Ginzoo Knife"and of course patent it, they cant be an intelligent race. Well gang, I think thats crap.

Consider our world. We know without a shadow of a doubt certain sea creatures, who live in the oceans with its small variable's of temp, and chemistry, we know whales, dolphins, etc, have had a mind numbing acoustic language going back at least ten million years. I think the whales, dolphin, have had the great luxury not needing to stand before the tax people who foot the bills. I think the math alone of what they think, what they figure out, is very valuable to us. So to contact intelligent ET's who fall into this catagory, we need to bring the mountain to Mohamed. .

Originally posted by seagrass
Where do "creative" people fall on that list? People who are artistic? If it is spatial then, why do some people excel in certain types of art as opposed to others? I can paint but I can't sculpt well.

[edit on 20-11-2008 by seagrass]

and the ability to entertain multiple perspectives.

Collective intelligence is a shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals. Collective intelligence appears in a wide variety of forms of consensus decision making in bacteria, animals, humans, and computer networks. The study of collective intelligence may properly be considered a subfield of sociology, of business, of computer science, of mass communications and of mass behavior—a field that studies collective behavior from the level of quarks to the level of bacterial, plant, animal, and human societies.