// what is intelligence? (longer definition)
Intelligence is the constantly evolving community (collection / aggregate) of recursive processes for:
- INPUT - perceiving information (messages) in one's environment,
- PROCESS - transforming and integrating information (through memory, imagination, reason and interpretation of meaning, relevance and value) into knowledge, and
- OUTPUT - applying knowledge to change one's environment (technology) or the transformative processes (thinking).
Ultimately, all intelligence is systemic since the OUTPUT of each PROCESS becomes the INPUT into other processes.
- Learning is the transformation of information (input) into knowledge useful for predicting future events (output)
- Knowledge = information + transformation (imagination, reasoning and idiosyncratic construction of meaning, relevance and value).
- Technology is the application of knowledge to the environment
- Innovation is the process of introducing new technology into an environment for use by others.
- Creativity is the application of imagination to produce something new.
- Reasoning is the systematic process of comparing facts (differences in information) to reach conclusions (motives, decisions, convictions).
Given these definitions, learning, knowledge, reasoning, imagination, creativity, innovation, fun, evolution and technology are subprocesses of intelligence.