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| Stephen Jay Gould |
In a previous post (Information and intelligence) I mentioned that intelligence (the ability to manipulate the available information and create new information) is a concept that is difficult to define, related to difficult terms, such as understanding, reasoning, planning, imagination, creativity, critical thinking and problem solving.
In his book The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould points out two important errors
related to the scientific treatment of intelligence:
- Reification, a word descending from the Latin Res, thing: our tendency to convert abstract concepts into entities. In the case of intelligence, we try to turn this unapproachable concept into something more understandable and measurable.
