On 27 Nov 2014, at 01:59, John Clark wrote:
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I insist also to distinguish intelligence from competence.
> My understanding is that intelligence refers to learning ability
and behavior adaptability to novel circumstances. Competence is
being able to act effectively in a given circumstance, but not
necessarily adaptable to new circumstances.
But Bruno says something can be intelligent without being competent,
and that doesn't make one particle of sense to me. It can solve
difficult and novel problems but it can't solve easy problems that
it sees all the time??
May be you can see this in this way: take an intelligent child, and
put him/her in a box, and close the box. You get an intelligent
entity, but without any competence, for the reason that being enclosed
in a box makes yopu no more competent than a pebble. Intelligence is
the potential to develop competence. It is more an internal
flexibility of mind than a well defined type of procedural knowledge.
Bruno
John K Clark
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