Intelligence
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- Spirits differ in intelligence.
- God is most intelligent.
- "intelligence" used to refer to a being.
- Intelligence received by obedience.
- Intelligence, the light of truth, was not created, nor can be. (Seems to refer intelligence as a being in context.)
- Intelligence is "light and truth".
- Intelligence forsakes the evil one.
- The wicked one taketh away intelligence through disobedience.
- We are commanded to bring up our children in light and truth.
- Intelligence received by obedience.
- All blessings dependent upon obedience to associated law.
- Intelligence gained in mortality is advantageous to us in the next life.
- Joseph Smith, "The King Follett Sermon"
- "The mind or the intelligence which man possesses is co-equal [co-eternal] with God himself. I know that my testimony is true; hence, when I talk to these mourners, what have they lost? Their relatives and friends are only separated from their bodies for a short season: their spirits which existed with God have left the tabernacle of clay only for a little moment, as it were; and they now exist in a place where they converse together the same as we do on the earth."
- "I am dwelling on the immortality of the spirit of man. Is it logical to say that the intelligence of spirits is immortal, and yet that it has a beginning? The intelligence of spirits had no beginning, neither will it have an end. That is good logic. That which has a beginning may have an end. There never was a time when there were not spirits; for they are co-equal [co-eternal] with our Father in heaven."
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- "Intelligence is eternal and exists upon a self-existent principle. It is a spirit from age to age and there is no creation about it. All the minds and spirits that God ever sent into the world are susceptible of enlargement."
- Bobby Azarian Ph.D., "Neuroscience's New Consciousness Theory Is Spiritual", Psychology Today, Dec 22, 2015
- Integrated Information Theory suggests that experience arises from information.
- Note: For a secular idea, it must be noted that this is a "theory". It may not even be a hypothesis as it does not appear to suggest testability, but it is an interesting idea arising from the philosophy of some modern scientists.
- The author concedes that it does not explain "consciousness", but presupposes consciousness in varying degrees as a fundamental property of the universe and its material.
- Satoshi Kanazawa, "Why Intelligent People Use More Drugs", Psychology Today, 1 Nov 2010
- Alex Fradera, "Very intelligent people make less effective leaders, according to their peers and subordinates", The Brittish Psychology Society: Research Digest, 13 Nov 2017
- Mean IQ of managers higher than mean IQ of general population. Optimum IQ is higher than average, but not too high, or peers will see them as ineffective. Evidence suggests a failure (or perceived failure) to utilize good leadership strategies.
- Ibn Khaldun, "The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History", Ch. 3 (On Dynasties, Royal Authority, Government Ranks, and All That Goes with These Things), Section 22
- "The conclusion is that it is a drawback in a political leader to be (too) clever and shrewd."
Notes
At the moment, this page is a bit of an amalgamation of disparate topics. There is intelligence, as in, general smarts. There is intelligence, as in, the eternal part of the soul that pre-exists even spirits. Finally, there is also a formally defined intelligence, which refers to a facility for accepting evolutionarily novel behavior and circumstances, also associated with a low level of feelings of disgust. This last item and the first item are loosely associated with measures such as IQ, but this measure may identify yet anothert meaning of intelligence.