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What does it mean when someone calls you smart or intelligent? According to developmental psychologist Howard Gardner, it could mean one of eight things. In this video interview, Dr. Gardner addresses his eight classifications for intelligence: writing, mathematics, music, spatial, kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal.
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HOWARD GARDNER:
Howard Gardner is a developmental psychologist and the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He holds positions as Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero.
Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville's Grawemeyer Award in Education and in 2000 he received a Fellowship from the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 2005 and again in 2008 he was selected by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as one of 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world. He has received honorary degrees from twenty-two colleges and universities, including institutions in Ireland, Italy, Israel, and Chile.
The author of over twenty books translated into twenty-seven languages, and several hundred articles, Gardner is best known in educational circles for his theory of multiple intelligences, a critique of the notion that there exists but a single human intelligence that can be assessed by standard psychometric instruments. During the past twenty five years, he and colleagues at Project Zero have been working on the design of performance-based assessments, education for understanding, and the use of multiple intelligences to achieve more personalized curriculum, instruction, and assessment. In the middle 1990s, Gardner and his colleagues launched The GoodWork Project. "GoodWork" is work that is excellent in quality, personally engaging, and exhibits a sense of responsibility with respect to implications and applications. Researchers have examined how individuals who wish to carry out good work succeed in doing so during a time when conditions are changing very quickly, market forces are very powerful, and our sense of time and space is being radically altered by technologies, such as the web. Gardner and colleagues have also studied curricula. Gardner's books have been translated into twenty-seven languages. Among his books are The Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts and Standardized Tests, The K-12 Education that Every Child Deserves (Penguin Putnam, 2000) Intelligence Reframed (Basic Books, 2000), Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet (Basic Books, 2001), Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People's Minds (Harvard Business School Press, 2004), and Making Good: How Young People Cope with Moral Dilemmas at Work (Harvard University Press, 2004; with Wendy Fischman, Becca Solomon, and Deborah Greenspan). These books are available through the Project Zero eBookstore.
Currently Gardner continues to direct the GoodWork project, which is concentrating on issues of ethics with secondary and college students. In addition, he co-directs the GoodPlay and Trust projects; a major current interest is the way in which ethics are being affected by the new digital media.
In 2006 Gardner published Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons, The Development and Education of the Mind, and Howard Gardner Under Fire. In Howard Gardner Under Fire, Gardner's work is examined critically; the book includes a lengthy autobiography and a complete biography. In the spring of 2007, Five Minds for the Future was published by Harvard Business School Press. Responsibility at Work, which Gardner edited, was published in the summer of 2007.
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TRANSCRIPT:
Howard Gardner: Currently I think there are eight intelligences that I’m very confident about and a few more that I’ve been thinking about. I’ll share that with our audience. The first two intelligences are the ones which IQ tests and other kind of standardized tests valorize and as long as we know there are only two out of eight, it’s perfectly fine to look at them. Linguistic intelligence is how well you’re able to use language. It’s a kind of skill that poets have, other kinds of writers; journalists tend to have linguistic intelligence, orators. The second intelligence is logical mathematical intelligence. As the name implies logicians, mathematicians...
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He didn't mention central intelligence. There's even a whole agency dedicated for it.
I think they got renamed to cocaine importing agency
George Carlin: Military intelligence - An Oxymoron
😂😂😂😂
humor and logic covers that one.
Or artificial intelligence: the ability to differentiate between natural and implants.
1. Language intelligence
2. logic and mathematics
3. musical intelligence
4. spatial intelligence (chess, surgeon, navigational, dance)
5. bodily-kinesthetic
6. interpersonal intelligence (salesman, work with others)
7. Intrapersonal intelligence (knowledge of and how to handle yourself)
8. Naturalist intelligence
9. teaching intelligence (as young as 3 or 4 children know how to teach)
10. existential intelligence (philosophical intelligence, love, death, future)
By Howard Gardner
+David Roberts
11. Creative intelligence - by me.
+SirMikeys I think that's probably just your biological need for mating filtered through your intra and interpersonal intelligences, not a seperate intelligence altogether.
+David Roberts
13. Trolling intelligence - by me.
14. Intelligence intelligence
+William Grace The difference between interpersonal intelligence and intrapersonal intelligence is what leads to children developing an introverts or an extravert personality.
"Should you play to strength, or should you bolster weakness?"
If only i had the existential intelligence to figure that out
80% Toward strength, 20% working on your weakness.
-John Maxwell 21 indispensable qualities of a leader.
Dependant on the likely various aspects, it could go either way... That's a judgement call and you can never know if you were right or wrong. Having to choose only one they'll be no comparison. All you can do is speculate, and guestimate..
Why not both?
Why not 50-50 ?!
@@KashishKaushal I would speculate that a genuine weakness, or area of reduced competence, requires a lot more energy/effort to merely elevate it to an average competence level. It is unlikely you’ll develop a weakness into a strength, so a weakness at best can be raised with A LOT of disproportionate effort effort to a mere average ability. The inverse is likely true that it doesn’t take as much effort/energy to develope an inherent strength to make it stronger. Don’t get me wrong it can still take a fair amount of effort to turn a strength to a higher level, but the results will be significantly higher using the same amount of energy as trying to get a weakness to an average competence level.😎✌️
This is something I've been saying for years. We all know people who can barely read and write but can do other things that the rest of us cannot. These are just as important as any other.
As an anecdotal example, I've known quite a few "hillbillies" (I grew up in Kentucky) that couldn't make change but they could teardown and rebuild any vehicle you put in front of them, including tractors, four-wheelers, etc. lol
If you judge a fish on it's ability to climb a tree then it will always appear stupid
@@3nertia that's called knowledge. Knowledge is information obtained through experience and repetition intelligence on the other hand is the ability to break down, understand and reapply complex information meaning you won't find a hillbilly that can't make change but can create a fusion reactor
@@Spartanxxzachxx
The exact same thing could litteraly be said for any city Billy, or suburban Billy, silly Billy (or any other Billy or body for that matter.)
@@Spartanxxzachxx
You think auto mechanics isn't complex you should think again.
Not to mention the witness stated how the billies could do this on a wide variety of machines.
While there are similarities among gas engines, there are way more differences which would require a deep understanding of each of the thousands & thousands of parts including not only their individual function, but how they all interact.
"Jack of all trades, master of none" is actually a couplet.
The second line is "though oftentimes better than master of one"
Sums me up, more or less...
It's interesting that the second line has not been repeated while the first line seems to have a negative connotation without it. The thought is "you are aimless and not focused. you aren't specialized", and I think "Not all who wander are lost." -J.R.R. Tolkien
Another un finished couplet was
ignorance is bliss
should be
If ignorance were bliss tw'ould be folly to be wise
Language is strewn with such half remembered couplets who's meanings have warped/been warped.
@@jon-paulfilkins7820
Like "the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb."
The "blood is thicker than water" is actually a claim that relationships in a brotherhood are stronger/more important than familial bonds.
9. Intelligence intelligence- knowing about intelligence
UP!!
meta-intelligence. Exactly what I was thinking.
Existential IQ is the same as Meta.
That's knowledge
This intelligence is a curse. I feel it really hurts my resoning for the existsnce of life. Because i am aware of that im a aware of that im aware of that im a aware, and it goes forever. And it makes me tick, becsuse there is no end in sight. I am lost in infinity. And my ego is begging to rechout of 0 and become 1. Because 0 is infinate, and infinity is roothless to my soul.
I just went to a stranger's house for a group get-together, and there was a 4 year old who was constantly going around explaining everything around us, in the house or yard. Definitely falls under pedagogical intelligence in him. It seems like as he gets knowledge he loves to show it to others.
I think that casual social/interpersonal education like that is the best way to educate the public. We need to encourage people to repeat what they hear from reputable sources. Even silly stuff like 2+2 is 4, and water in Spanish is agua. At least people would have things to talk about. These days it seems like everyone is either telling jokes or awkwardly silent.
@@KWifler So true, I 100% relate
Liking to do something is not an intelligence, it's a preference.
That's me!! 42 years ago.
Say hi to that Little professor.
They grow up so fast
I have learning disabilities; I could play chess since I was in Kindergarten and by third grade, I was beating the adults in my life. However, I'm 39 years old and I still struggle with left and right. In fact, I have a tattoo on each arm and if I'm told to turn right or left, I have to think on which tattoo is on my right or left side respectively.
I still spell “of” as “ov” but now just enjoy it
Make an L with both fingers the one that looks like an L is left the one the looks like a backwards L is right I am severe adhd you’re welcome
The whole learning disability thing, don’t get me started! My son supposedly had them. Turns out he needed more time to take tests, less distractions from kids but enjoyed music during tests. Drs said he will never be able to use blueprints or patterns. I never told him. After HS he went on to be a carpenter’s journeyman and then onto NYC 2 years later where he showed twice at NY Fashion week. Both blueprints AND patterns.. .GO FIGURE!
Dyscalculia. I’m 39 and still occasionally have to look at the L shape of my thumb and index fingers. Maps make no sense to me, neither do North, South, East and west. I take mental pictures of my surroundings as I drive. My sense of direction is a flip book of vivid images. Don’t get me started on algebra. My brain will not retain the info longer than a couple of days. We humans are such strange, oddly wired, but beautiful creatures.
Me too! Im a creative. Whenever doing anything dependent on knowing my right and left, I get my Sharpie and draw an L on my hand.
Meme intelligence- the naturalist at crafting the dankest of memes with efficiency.
Harambe's Soul I can sort of agree with this. If memes can be expressed as genes, in that it is sharing information between organisms, then having a heightened sense of what it takes to craft the dankest of memes would probably fall into the language category rather than be one of its own.
Harambe's Soul I can sort of agree with this. If memes can be expressed as genes, in that it is sharing information between organisms, then having a heightened sense of what it takes to craft the dankest of memes would probably fall into the language category rather than be one of its own.
I guess you lack it, since you're still on that Harambe bollocks.
thats 7th and word inteligense compination
Andronikos comment lacks all types of intelligence.
So basically intelligence has been split into RPG attributes. Interesting.
It’s a simulation you’re right
Or... hear me out... RPG attributes are based on different types of intelligences. Mind blowing, right?
I dumped my skill points into overthinking, what intelligence is that
meanwhile we have some mad lad maxing out all his stats playing the game of life like its a nonstop fever dream
Dude.
A wise man learns from the experiences of others.
A average man learns from his own experiences. A fool has all the answers and never learns.
Mark Twain
The theists all belong into the last group.
@@HolgerJakobs The individuals who judge groups of people by generalizations most likely belong to the last group I guess
So Gardner is an average man, as he just came up with a theory which was not widely tested? And people who just hears "Theory of multiple intelligences" believes it is scientific as the Theory of gravity. I guess the latter people are wise as they learned from Gardner?
I think it is relevant to talk about different intelligence, and make schools accordingly. So many children suffer because they are not recognised for their diverse talents. There is another system talking about these different types of intelligence: intellectual, creative, physical, emotional and more… which I don’t remember… But yes VERY interesting subject ! 😀👍🏼
Yes they keep turning precious stones into bricks in their wall and all too often they break. And the school system is about remembering information not thinking. It's like wow critical thinking class that needle of logic in the hay bale of conformity.
@@thatoneguy7603 because the schooling system was developed to create drones for the factory of the industrial age. That's why the horrible bells to signal the end and start of periods.
@@losfromla1480 yep totally, they didn't have robot's back then and god forbid we have people that can think for themselves that's why special ed exists. Being smarter than them is like having a better product then a major corporation. They gotta snuff out the fish in the pond that will get bigger than them.
So when exactly should these kids be pulled into these specialty schools? Should they be assigned it at birth, or before middle school, maybe highschool? Or maybe that's already how it works.....you learn basic intelligence before highschool.... and when you show the basic problem solving skills and basic linguistics skills you then pick your electives that your interested in. Then after highschool you either pick a trade school specific to your interests or you go to college and still further your interests. When exactly should we take these kids your talking about out of school and place them into interest specific schools.
@@erichenderson1901 when they know the kids are smarter than the others.
I've been called a Jack off, but never a jack of all trades.
+MickyAvStickyHands A jerk of all trades.
That sounds like someone else’s interpersonal intelligence
Lol! What a joke
We wonder why
I've been called a master debater...
I kind of combined my logical intelligence with linguistic intelligence to almost fake interpersonal intelligence
This could not possibly fit into a smaller nutshell, for me.
Dexter
Sociopathy or autism?
lol
(You can't actually be both, autistic people have emotions but they're disconnected from their natural social behavior, sociopaths just have basically no emotions whatsoever, a sociopathic autist would just be a sociopath)
Warp Scanner Both
I cannot stress enough just how appreciative I am of MIT. Howard Gardner's work changed my life very early on. I would not understand myself or be the person I am today without it. In third grade I was in both the gifted and talented and the learning disabilities classes. During Odyssey of the Mind, a competition for the gifted and talented group we were to create a robot that displayed intelligence and or emotion. My assignment in the group was to understand exactly what intelligence was and how we might be able to replicate that for a robot. I was given a copy of MIT (Multiple Intelligences Theory) and set to the task. Reading that book transformed my life. I realized how multifaceted we all are as individuals. I learned to strengthen my weaker intelligences and also put time and effort into my predisposed intelligences. Fast forward many years and I have been diagnosed ASD with savant syndrome. All throughout my school years I had no idea why I was so different. I often heard, "You're so brilliant why don't you just do this? If you just work harder." No matter how hard I worked on certain things I never did improve. I would study and study in history for example but no matter how hard I tried to remember names and dates I could not. However, in math, I never had to study. I could look at equations and they would just make perfect sense. When I put my effort into it I was able to finish three years of math in just nine weeks, or one quarter of a school year. I always believed something was terribly wrong with me though. I never had an answer as to why I was so good at something and so terrible at others no matter how much effort I put into it. Once I received my diagnosis it put years of struggling into perspective and finally made sense as to why I was the way I was. MIT saved my life and sanity though. I became empowered to be my own teacher and endeavored to strengthen each of my weaker intelligences. My reading comprehension was not that great, so instead I found that I was more inclined with poetry, creative comp and Shakespeare. I still struggle with spelling, grammar and sentence structure. I would find ways that worked for me. MIT changed the very core of who I was and how I approached life. I am currently working on a book based on this titled Student of Life - Mastering the Process of Self-Education. It is a break down of education theory, how it has applied to my life, and how others can use the same model to successfully teach themselves in the most effective way possible.
while reading half of ur comment if felt like wtf why am I reading this🤣
@@PokerBoy_18 Then don't read it. Simple. As the comment was not directed at you anyway. And if you don't understand the comment, you don't understand the work that is MIT and not sure why you are here anyway.
Such a fascinating journey. Congratulations on your book. It says a lot about your sense of empathy; not only were you able to outgrow your "weaknesses" on your own, you reasoned you could help others going through some of the same struggles. Kudos to you!
What about creative intelligence? The ability to come up with ideas and solutions that didn't exist before and can't be derived by information and logic alone? This seems like a really important one to overlook.
Can you give us some examples of documented ideas and solutions that have existed and were not derived by information and logic alone?
I agree!
@@911Salvage Well, the sewing machine was invented based in inspiration from a dream, for one. Of course Elias Howe used logic to develop the inspiration, I would never deny that, same as Archimedes later figured out the math to support the inspiration which struck him in the bath on how to measure volume on an irregular object. I don't deny that they go hand in hand, but logic and information alone can only process what they already have. They need that added element of creative inspiration.
Creativity is the ability to mentally make the leap that one thing is like another normally not associated with it, and come up with a solution based on that. Elias Howe actually dreamed of being attacked by people rhythmically poking spears at him with a hole in the tip of each spearhead--he didn't literally dream of how a sewing-machine needle needed to differ from a hand-sewing needle, but he drew inspiration from an image that most would have dismissed as unrelated. In the same way Archimedes made a connection between his body sinking into the water and measuring gold by the volume of water displaced.
@@DoloresJNurss So basically one can't come up with new solutions and ideas without deriving from prior knowledge with logic. Thus, there's no need to add yet another one of non-sensical type of intelligence.
@@911Salvage Somehow you managed to get that backwards. Prior knowledge and logic can only make variations on what has already been discovered. You need the added spark of creative inspiration to expand into new territory. I'm not saying that creative intelligence is in competition with logic and knowledge, but it brings the discoveries possible through logic and knowledge to a whole new level.
Think of knowledge and logic as bullets without primers. Yes, you can hit the target by throwing them in a sling, but until you put primers on them and put them in a gun, you can't shoot them very far. The primer is creative inspiration. Does that help?
I can't believe he did the whole video with his eyes closed
My soil science professor (or Pedologist, but people always think wrong) that 20 years ago was around 120 years old, looked during his classes to the radiators on the side of the auditorium. And every second word was "Aaaahhhhm".
Horror.
Ah, you have observation intelligence
@@frankcarrillo1354
No he/she hasn't. He has sagging eyelids that make it look like he has his eyes closed, but most of the time he hasn't.
U r quite intelligent to notice this 😂
lol
My professor used to say: "every mathematician is a poet." And I tried that, wrote a poem, my first experience, and won a competition. I understood that poems are pure mathematics.
I am interested in learning maths maybe, because I think I need some of their symbols as punctuation, perhaps, for a poem.
No, they aren't. Poems involve mathematics only in that they are closer to music than any other kind of wtiting in that some poems have meter. Most modern poetry doesn't; it is free verse. Of course, speech has a natural rhythm or meter. Moreover, I found it interesting that the standard base meter of most poems (iambic pentameter) is the reverse of the base meter of a piece of music. The stresses are reversed for music. So speech involves meter, but it involves language and meaning, so it can never be pure mathematics.
@@Jan96106 Look up in the sky! Is it a bird? A plane? No! It's the joke going right over your head!
@@Jan96106 I'm going to say this at the risk of getting an ironic whoosh response...
But there are literally circuits of brain cells that literally a analyze statements using a set of bio-organic mathematical algorithms that have been known for centuries. When a statement passes the analysis, it sends a shot of dopamine or something like that into your brain. "All brain is maths."
My only poem for my wife
When god created light
The light gave her eyes
And so god evolved
Eyes and such
are the oldest things
come from the deepest place
Your eyes are always congruent
and truthful
I am very happy to hear your talk. When I was a school counselor, my schools use multiple intelligences and now as a therapist engage my clients in the multiple intelligences, as well. It’s wonderful. Thank you so very much for teaching us about the multiple intelligences.
Gardeners theory of multiple intelligences always appealed to me as well. While many psychologists would prefer to use the general intelligence (G), I think that gardeners model explains intelligence in a much more elaborated way.
It's not wonderful that they keep pushing pseudocsiences like this to teaching. It's dreadful actually and you being a school counselor should know better.
I am 44 and just received my diagnosis of ASD with savant syndrome just two months ago. Back in school they never knew what to do with me. I was both in gifted and talented and special education. I struggled for years constantly shamed by educators for my short comings. They could see I was highly intelligent, but thought that I just didn't put enough work into learning, which just was not true. Should you come across someone who both excels and struggles it is worth looking at a high functioning ASD diagnosis.
0:28 Linguistic 0:41 Logical mathematical 1:19 musical 1:51 spatial 2:21 bodily kinesthetic 2;50 interpersonal 3:21 intrapersonal 4:00 Naturalist 5:00 Pedagogical 5:59 existential . Well that makes or an interesting mathematical observation. I would also add value as a essential intelligence. Apparently I am getting lost, in that all is just a division of intelligence so may as well include the intelligence of a rock :-)
Thanks a bunch
These are *categories* of intelligence, *types* of intelligence. They are independent and distinct *top-level* categories. The "intelligence of a rock" is disingenuous.
He forgot gaming intellect. The art of feeding 0 - 20 when someone upsets you in a lobby.
Lmao!
League?
Spatial
That goes with logic and spatial intelligence since you are observing and breaking down what to do and using what limited space you have to make an upset win
humor is definitely rooted in logic. especially creative output in humor. joke writing is just logic puzzles with word games thrown in for fun.
Also it overlaps with interpersonal intelligence
+Omar Ghani lmao we share the same name and i freaked out when i saw because i thought i wrote what you did lmao
Omar Ghani yeah, there are writers that rely on it more heavily. you get those kind of "so, what do you do?" type of stand-ups, or long-form writers that rely on relationship building before a certain joke can work, etc. raw/short joke writing usually leans more away from the interpersonal side, and in the case of twitter or current events joke-writing, it can be downright anti-social.
***** oh, i wasn't quantifying better or worse, i was just agreeing and expanding.
***** i mean, i'm a liguist comic, but i'd definitely say that the "joke" is logic, and language is something only the presentation of the problem.
you mentioned carlin: most of his language jokes are logic jokes with words as the ingredients. getting ON the plane, etc. he sometimes used speed/rhythm/prose towards the end, but even in his ranting old guy days, he was still using logic to present the parts that were the "jokes."
i adore the idea of "silly," but that's more performance, etc. the "joke" is always a logic puzzle, and the comic is an aesthetic artist with his own decisions he gets to make about how he can present them, or what he wants to use to create the puzzle.
20 years ago, his book on emotional intelligence has been a real eye opener in how I used to see people around me. We all have a tremendous potential, the difference is how and where it develops.
Could you recommend me the title of his book?
You should stop reading this bs. This is pseudoscience. Emotional intelligence doesn't exist just like any other of the intelligences don't exist either.
statistical intelligence: the ability to reduce all the intelligences to a highly correlated common factor known as IQ
dunning kreuger intelligence: the ability to understand why some people might not want to do that
intersectional intelligence: the ability to realize that when intellectuals make up the meanings of words, they can make the meanings whatever they want
structural intelligence: the idea that jet fuel can't melt steel beams
brilliant (literally gold)
You forgot Lack of Intelligence. That's you.
Amusingly intelligent but not exactly accurate..
@@jamesedward9306 ah. dunning kreuger intelligence, i see.
@@pyellard3013 what is accurate then?
I always thought of the intelligent quotient as a way to see how quickly someone could grasp new concepts and ideas, and how well someone can come up with solutions to problems. everything els was just a skill you put your time and knowledge into in order to become better at said skill.
Agree, those become skills out of routine
Who is more intelligent of these two types of people?
Person 1: A person who understands a concept taught to them extremely quickly and can accurately use said concept efficiently and effectively.
Person 2) A person that takes longer to grasp the initial concept, but when they do they have seen a deeper element, have added more insight, and perhaps even created an entirely new superior concept.
For me person two may take longer to portray understanding of the initial concept due to their deeper insight, raising many unanswered questions that were overlooked by the creator of the initial concept.
In my example I think both people demonstate two different kinds of intelligence.
Depending on what you value, some people would argue person 1 is the most intelligent and others would argue that person 2 is more intelligent.
@@rhodrimorice7746 That is not likely to happen if he took so long to grasp the first one.
@@lilliansmith8444 what're you basing that statement on? Ever heard of slow learners? There're a lot of reasons why someone might not grasp a concept as quickly as another: teaching methods, environmental dependencies, etc. For example, it would be more difficult for a blind and deaf person to grasp a concept via regular teaching methods. This doesn't make them less intelligent than others who aren't blind and deaf. It just makes it more difficult to learn initially given the standard methods and processes of teaching. If you imagine how complex and different humans are beyond the surface, you can see how this could play out amongst people who might appear at first glance to have similar learning capabilities.
Many deep thinkers tend to be slow btw.
When you can change the definition of intelligence, any man can be a genius.
There isn't an agreement for what intelligence means across different fields of study and across different cultures.
"Judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree and it'll live its whole life thinking it is stupid." 'Intelligence' is much too contingent on environment to fit it into any one particular box.
Snake oil salesmen lol
In other words, nobody is.
Jack of All Trades master of none. Is pretty much an all rounder genius term. That means he has great learning
“Should you play to strength, or should you bolster weakness?”…”Supplement or accentuate?” such a profound question when you think about it. I feel like your habits, experiences, and opportunities play a big role in shaping how you approach this as you enter adulthood. As much as, if not more so, than whatever your inherent interests are (which to an extent, are already shaped by experiences but it’s kind of nature vs nurture). For example I have a lot of free time to spend educating myself on whatever I’m in the mood for, but not a lot of people are so fortunate. So as much as it is a “value” question, it’s also up to chance whether or not it’s even a choice to begin with. That being said, in terms of parents raising children, I think if you indulge the natural curiosity in the post toddler through kindergarten years and foster that, you increase the chances of it becoming a fixture of their personality. Curiosity as a character trait is surprisingly rare in adults, at least in my experience. Most people avoid learning unless they have to and find it tedious. What I’ve noticed among my parent friends is that when they explain things to their kids there is rarely any enthusiasm and patience runs thin and the questions get shit down. I understand that it’s very taxing after a while with how incessant and sometimes obnoxious the questions can be, but I think that that annoyance and lack of enthusiasm imprints on kids in relation to curiosity. But, maybe I’m drawing too much on personal experiences here and not so much actual science so take it with a grain of salt I guess. Anyways, see what I mean about how profound the question is? Really thought provoking
Finally, I got to see a picture of the man who came out with such theories and helped me navigate through daily life lately! Thanks for sharing!
this is what people don't understand, if someone doesn't know one thing they'd be called 'stupid'
Jason indeed, majority of society are blind and ignorant.
That is so true
+DeathCreationist You aren't though right? Of course not.
+hattalah is there a principle of yours that has been put into practice? There is something to be said for specialization and efficiency in human product.
hattalah indeed, very right. always better to have a well balanced wide perception.
I don't know, many of these "intelligences" can be improved by learning and/or practice. That makes it less an intelligence but rather skill or knowledge.
Suvi-Tuuli Allan Either you have intelligence, or you don't. That's the thesis I'm assuming.
Does a rock have intelligence? What about a computer? Do clowns knock before cuming?
+Suvi-Tuuli Allan ....clowns cuming lol GOLD
+Suvi-Tuuli Allan I am a bi lingual illtierate
+Vanalos so you are born with a set speed of intelligence? It doesn't change? I think skills are specific, while intelligence applies to all of the field. This is where having "social intelligence" works for all people, and not just the people you "trained" with.
Knowledge isn’t intelligence, and wisdom isn’t equitable. Intelligent people have several of these qualities, never just one.
Correct. Also, the intelligence is useless without the knowledge to accompany it.
Knowing isn’t intelligence? Wisdom isn’t equitable? An intelligent person “never” has just one quality? Sorry, but this is just naive.
@@michael7144 knowing HOW TO APPLY THE KNOWLEDGE is intelligence. You can know math, but if you don't understand how to apply the math to real world situations, are you intelligent?
@@CertifiedClapaholic no, if you knew everything in the universe and could explain it, but you couldn’t apply it you would still be intelligent.
Are you intelligent?
@@michael7144 I don't know. I do know that an intelligent person would've looked up the definition of "intelligence" and realized I was right before retorting with incorrect information.
There are multiple intelligences, but these sound like domains of insight, and they could be multiplied indefinitely. Insight is 'information.' Intelligence is the ability to acquire information. They're different.
If you listen close he says nothing
@@mk3ferret Which side of a chicken has the most feathers?
Answer is below...
The outside.
@@keisi1574
Good use of “Natural Intelligence”
Lol.
Uh no. As what he is saying requires different types of thinking and understanding to know so yes it does require certain intelligence.
There aren't multiple intelligences. There is one that is divided into two: fluid and cristalized. The multiple intelligences hypothesis has been proven wrong countless times.
After reviewing the 8 intelligences and 2 other possible intelligences, I've come to the conclusion that imma fucken idiot.
Connor McGaughey so get smarter dude you have time.
Trolling Intelligence. Every babby is formed with it.
+Anthony Clifton Junior That's a form of stupidity.
pRopaaNS You say tomato, I say tomato..
Jev Laa What intelligence, trolling don't have any logic in it other than doing crap to other people for sake of satisfying a petty self-esteem.
Jev Laa Ass wipping intelligence confirmed.
+Anthony Clifton Junior I agree that trolling is a form of intelligence, but everyone doesn't have it since trolling relies on the other person falling for it.
Amazing! Most of us learned about the 7 intelligences in school(they usually leave out existential) but hearing it from the theorizer himself is a game changer!
This is the first time I'm hearing it. If I ever learned about them, I completely forgot.
Non of them exist. There is only one intelligence than can be devided into two: fluid and cristalized. The multiple intelligence hypothesis has been proven false countless times. It's pseudoscience.
Lecture at its finest! Very well articulated, thanks for doing this :)
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All these intelligences and Im still stupid....
Nolan Brock Just like the rest of us s😸
upvoted, because that statement is stupid and creates a nice paradox...
Don't worry, wait 4 more years, you will have STUPIDITY intelligence.
I love how the states that developing any one type of intelligence is a matter of what you value.
I'm glad you found love.
I would say mechanical intelligence should be its own thing. Something about being able to understand the workings of a machine (like a mechanic), being able to build from an assortment of parts (like a carpenter), or being able to construct through destruction (like a sculptor) feels different from the others listed.
I think that is kinesthetic?
@@samanthab6642 No. It has to do with visualization not bodily feeling, which by the way is the only one of our senses that feels . There is no such thing as mental feeling or visual feeling. Emotions, as well, are physical response to our other senses. Yer welcome.
Visuospatial intelligence
I think these are a mixture of listed intelligences.
It's not that you have one and not the others. We all some all of these intelligences at varying degrees.
I go along with the idea that calling someone 'intelligent' is just too broad and needs to be qualified. Not all people exhibit the same set of intellectual skills. An attempt to categorize them into a list may be a bit too presumptive.
For example, take the set of skills required to play a sport like soccer or football. You would need spatial intelligence to understand the various positions and layout of the field, interpersonal intelligence so that you can read and anticipate other players' actions, mathematical and logical skills for developing offensive plays and field positions and which play to make for the optimal amount of points to stay ahead, and so it goes.
Musical skill fuses math with art. Which intelligence predominates here?
But there are likely other skill sets, some seemingly contradictory, like relying on intuition versus logic and planning that can at the same time be successful within the same situation.
Overall, human intelligence in its many forms is probably too amorphous to probably divide by subcategory. There is just too much overlap. But I would agree that overall intelligence isn't just one thing.
Gary Horsman Your making alot of sense😀
Gary Horsman you don't need math to be a musician all you need is the feel and rhythm of it. numbers are only used to map out whatever your going to play but it's just math at its most simple level. music requires a good ear not math
He was reading through the lines. I think that sounds more analytical than existential.
just want to say: the "complicated" math was already done a couple of hundred years ago, the math is built into the instruments. The 12th root of 2 is what makes todays music possible. Music and math are as simple or as complex as you want to make them.
sebastian horta True. You don't need math to be a musician. However, if you want to grow as a musician, knowing the theory will help you increase your skills and knowledge by leaps and bounds as opposed to kind of feeling your way around, hoping to discover something new by pure accident. The musical prodigy is an incredibly rare occurrence. 99 percent of musicians get greater proficiency through careful study of mathematical theory.
My piano teacher showed me how to play a C chord. My high school teacher showed me chords on the ukulele. But it wasn't till years later that a TV show on PBS described a chord as the first, third and fifth notes (1+3+5) in the major scale that I was able to play every chord in every key all on my own. That mathematical knowledge sent me on a journey of discovery that increased my playing skills a hundredfold. But I wouldn't have known that without the math.
1) linguistic i. 2) logical/mathematical i. 3) musical i. 4) spatial i. 5) body i. 6) interpersonal i. 7) intrapersonal i. 8) naturalist i. 9) existential i.. The 8 intelligences that were 9?
Rursus - He mentions that the last two intelligences were "in the works" and not confirmed in his view.
Well you missed one, there was 10 total, but he said at the beginning 8 that he thinks he can prove, and then 2 he is considering, one of which those 2 is existential.
only the first 8 are acceptable, the other two need more research (proof)
I think oftentimes he might overuses the word intelligence for mere competence. E.g. the body “intelligence”, might also think proprioception is just competence, which doesn’t necessarily go hand in hand with intelligence i believe
What about dancers, fighters, athletes etc. Wouldn't they have a strong intelligence of how to manipulate their body
@@greitasopelis5542 that's called physics my guy
@@TURTLE2055 please explain. The realm that they manipulate their bodies in, is called physics. The ability to manipulate their bodies in a intelligent way isn't called physics.
This is the most important video I have watched in a while. Not only do I see more value in more people but I better understand myself and my circumstances.
I'm a little skeptical to these ideas because of the lack of distinction between skill, knowledge and intelligence.
Make sure you never overcome this semantic road block.
@@MC-br1gk because science is about ignoring fundamental details :)
@@EpicShkun you mean God?
Number 9: Sexual Intelligence.
+Robert's Art Studio might be a mixture of interpersonal and existential intelligence, but I would love to hear what he thinks on the subject!
Thats interpersonal intelligence
Morpheus
thanks for that, took me a second to type existential to, must not have much of that literary intelligence HA!
+Robert's Art Studio Ah yes. The *vagina*....
+Robert's Art Studio or just 02:35 x))
I put up for consideration:
1- Adaptive intel. The ability to flex.
2- Associative intel. The ability to solve by connecting unrelated info.
3- Creative intel. Without having existing data, and conceiving a result that is unique. True invention.
Thank you for this video.
The "teaching" one is about people's ability to understand how another person's mind works.
This is one of the most important things I’ve ever watched in my entire life
Lol why
Very helpful thank you
Amazing knowledge! Thank you!
It seems as though you could apply the word "intelligence" to just about anything if you follow this model.
Perceptive intelligence, audio-receptive intelligence, tea tasting intelligence... My point being, the designation seems arbitrary.
I think he would say to you that those things are senses, not intelligences which is an (very basically) what you do with the information your senses give you. for instance you wouldnt say a def person is adutorially retarded because that implies some sort of conscious thought, but rather that they have a problem with their senses. also perception would fall into a mixture of spatial and logical I would say (many of the more specific intelligences can be made by combing two of more of these 8)
Marty2012 It just FEELS good to belong. It's great to be inclusive! Let's create categories that have no actual meaning in order to assuage our feelings of worthlessness relative to our peers who are actually productive! These should be public school poster captions with pictures of gorillas and the like.
@@travelinghermit Having a higher IQ does not necessarily make you more productive.
@@Catlily5 Why are you replying by saying EXACTLY what I said?
@@travelinghermit I thought you were saying the opposite.
I think teaching intelligence could be incorporated into interpersonal intelligence and existential intelligence could be included in intrapersonal intelligence.
all intelligences he mentioned can be incorporated to IQ + physical abilities.
I believe that one of the most beautiful things about humans is our ability to work together has allowed for greater variation amongst individuals.
Almost any problem we have just the right people or person for.
Everyone should appreciate their uniqueness, as it allows for others to have their own as well, and this allows us to achieve so much more than if we were all the same.
This is brilliant! I definitely agree with these.
I'd love to have a conversation with this man
"If you don't have a good understanding of yourself, you are in big trouble."
I'M DOOMED.
Obviously untrue unless you classify most of the human race as permananently "in big trouble" which would make the phrase semantically equivalent to "normal".
Well... I think majority only have like 50 or 70%understanding self... The top performer always understand themselves the best... Whereas u can see lots in ppl when they have a set back... They dunno why they are so triggered.. I guess u can still live normal life if u don't fully understand yourself... But to optimise life u need to understand urself better
Such a nice interview!!!!!
Once i heard that intelligence is not only knowing something but aply this knowledge to solve problems, sounds like a perfect discription.
Some of these "intelligences" he's describing sound like developed skills.
Yes; this theory has no basis in phycological study. People who have researched these kinds of abilities in terms of the brain usually can explain them in terms of personality, which guides preferences; and the intelligence quotient. For IQ as it is modernly tested, we find that there is no exact reliable way of increasing it, although it does increase for people.
What this guy is doing is grouping the huge variety of abilities that people have in today's world in way that generally makes sense, even though the groups are arbitrary in relation to real science. They aren't really intelligences (there is one and we've already found it), but just skills that people learn over time given their interests and their limits. The entire idea is inductive reasoning.
@@murraymoore7784 exactly couldn’t have put it better
Every intelligence is a developed skill....nobody starts off being the best at anything.
@@irrelevantideology9640 I think OP is saying there's a difference between intelligence and developed skill. I take this video's classification as, not necessarily interests or skill, but more what people are naturally inclined to learn. Some are just able to grasp certain skills easier than others which equates to intelligence in that particular skill.
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The “one intelligence”, incorporates all those different sub types of intelligence, also you sound like you give genius answers on UA-cam comments sections all day.
im a jack of all. My ADD causes me to have super focus when im interested in something but i also tend to lose interest once i have become proficient in it. every job ive had has been in a different field and ive always performed extremely well or above average. its made me really good at adapting to change but i often feel like i have no real direction.
Same
A much-needed insight. The fact that too many people, some of them in charge of the educational process, believe that all this can be expressed by a single number might be at the foundation of the educational crisis.
Really fascinating. It makes a lot of sense and takes the weight off the discredited IQ paradigm. And I enjoyed the speaker's style. He explains these concepts well, simply but without talking down.
The third one, musical intelligence, is the one that's always fascinated me the most. Not the ability to produce music, but the ability to enjoy it.
Why is it that certain notes, tones, patterns of music, can cause such uplifting joy and happiness in all humans worldwide, regardless of the language they speak, where other notes and patterns can cause sadness and depression? You can play a poppy Katy Parry song for people who have never heard music and they'll find it light and fun, and you can play some dark, depressing Brahams for anyone and they'll find it sad and moving.
Why did we evolve to have that capacity where music affects is so much? Why do our brains have that function? And why does some music start off catchy but gets really boring after the tenth time hearing it while you can hear other songs for years and still not get tired of them?
Never seen any research into all this and would really love to.
I'm a musician. Studied music at university. I could go on for hours on this subject. In short, you'll find that people in fact do not have the same emotional responses to the same music, even within a single culture. There's often broad agreement but it is far from guaranteed. And music from another (significantly different) culture can be downright baffling. It comes down to a mix of enculturation and idiosyncratic associations. In both cases these are learned, one via passive exposure to your own culture and one from your unique life experiences.
Why does catchy music get boring while other music doesn't? Because catchy music is vapid. There's usually very little substance to sustain your interest. Once you get tired of the hook and listen for something else, there's nothing to find. More complex but less catchy music can sustain interest longer because there is always something new to hear and discover.
@@nuynobi Dave Brubeck, the jazz legend, has an interesting take on this. While touring in Europe and Asia during the late 50s, he realized that not all audiences seemed to appreciate the melodies within his playing the same, however, when it came to the rhythm, there seemed to be universal appreciation; Joe Morello's drum solos always seemed to capture the attention and applauses of the crowd. He reasoned that it had to do with human's natural feel for "time" (in the musical sense). He put it best through this iconic quote: "One of the reasons I believe in jazz is that the oneness of man can come through the rhythm of your heart. It’s the same anyplace in the world, that heartbeat. It’s the first thing you hear when you’re born - or before you’re born - and it’s the last thing you hear".
@@raulovalle Indeed. Reminds me of an anecdote from the forward to my orchestration textbook. A musician from Asia (can't remember where specifically) travelled to Europe and attended a symphony. His favourite part was when the orchestra was tuning up, before the 'actual music' had even started.
@@nuynobi that's because a lot of Folk Asian music sounds like people tuning up their instruments. No offense!
I think aesthetic intelligence should be added...separate from spatial.
I 'm glad you mentioned this. I will also be writing a paper about this subject and I find that there are trully strong reasons for such an intelligence actually being a distinct one: it's tha abillity to know where and when something fits perfectly according to context and be able to enjoy many more alternative ways of doing art but also being able to find aesthetic appreciation everywhere. But I believe not only great artists of any kind have such abillity ,but also great mathe maticians and scientists (mainly natural scientists).
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Do you actually believe your own bullshit? Labeling ever more specific skills, personality traits or even just attitudes "intelligence" has no scientific value and serves only to stroke your ego.
how you organize your brain and see yourself changes who you are and what you focus on. What you focus on and spend time and energy on becomes what you are good at.
This makes sense. Thank you.
I'd expand musical intelligence to artistic/creative intelligence. A film director, painter, photographer etc would have the same kind of "eye" for something as a musician so I'd argue that definition of intelligence should cover that broader spectrum
I think he would completely agree with you.
for some reason they shoved that in the same category as the sports and body movement intelligences
yeah 100%. I feel like he completely forgot to look at the entire visual landscape that shapes his and our life everyday. This obviously extends to the digital landscape - how creatives connect the their audience, how the audience navigates through an intuitive interface.
I think the fact that creatives have made our lives sooooo seamless and easy to navigate through, we often forget what when into that process (like a train map for instance.)
Kinda weird to me that they shoved that into the category of sports and body movement when it has absolutely nothing to do with a physical body.
I would have a creative intelligence category that lists subcategories like music, food, art, design, photography, creative writing ect. Each of these play their own unique and important part to connect to our emotions and make a world worth living in as well as documenting the good, the bad and the ugly.
Peace.
In my personal opinion, what Gardner calls "Teaching" i think is a mix of interpersonal intelligence and naturalist, because it requires both putting yourself on the shoes of the students, and effectively discerning, synthetizing and classifying the most important aspects of any thing. The Existential intelligence he mentions looks like a mix of naturallist intelligence and Curiosity, which by the way, he didn't mention; curiosity is definitely a form of intelligence.
Also creativity isn't on the list either.
Thanks Sir
amazing and insightful video
he forgot electronics intelligence, the intelligence to use a computer and hook up a stereo system . also garment washing intelligence, poker bluffing intelligence, playing with doggies intelligence, etc etc....
thersten Has Anybody ever you told that you're funny but also a smart ass?
Marcquez Parker R.I.P. English Language
thersten What?
Electronics intelligence? Hahah, you understand how an electronic device works thank to the engineers that developed it in that simple and sometime very pathetic way it is. So thanks the engineers don't yourself.
thersten playing with doggies intelligence 😂😂😂😂
This looks intelligent, thank you.
“So how to spend your time? Should you invest in your strengths? Or bolster your weaknesses? Everyone must choose” How simple and yet profound
It’s a question of values. Well said!!
Or be like me and have 0 of 8
+Sour Kreme awww. :(
+Sour Kreme get a book or see if your local library has a book called "What Color is My Parachute" any version, but latest probably best & take the tests in it
It's ok I still love you
+Sour Kreme That is a paradox, because that statement implies intra-personal intelligence.
+Mr Marten Precisely. You have to have some either (using this guy's framework) Logical Intelligence or Intra-personal intelligence to even gauge whether or not you have intelligence. Or some combination of both, for the analysis of yourself, and the comparison to others, and to come to a conclusion derived from both. So don't be so quick to give into unnecessary self-depreciation, Sour Kreme, because you're clearly more intelligent than you let on.
his proud smile at the end of his joke is tooo cute.
I’m impressed over this discussion
Awesome explanation
Far too simplistic, completely ignores some very complex and nuanced abilities the human brain body combination has. Divides them into his arbitrary definitions for no real reason. Basically he seems to have a very old school way of looking at the complexities of human performance.
From what I know about neurology and psychology this is not the direction we are going for describing such things.
+david j h I agree totally with you. Strangely these type of moderate comments that have more thought put into them usually don't get any likes.
But yeah I think our brains don't work like that. Our brains aren't just made for performing tasks. They were born to observe the world and act in it. But not performing tasks. Performing tasks is what came later, when we organised ourselves into crude societies. So it's only natural that we'd now observe human behaviour and say there are different types of general intelligences.
But actually, it might just be that the brain can do anything that you throw at it, as long as you get used to it enough. So sure, what we do repetitively, and what our lineage has done repetitively might be a good general starting point, but there are potentially an infinite amount of 'intelligences'. It's just that we don't give our brains the opportunity to develop them. And that we see the world through the scope of ability, 'intelligence' being the most important thing to be able to achieve. But perhaps *existence* is enough. Perhaps what most things can all do is *be*. In any way they like to. Interaction may be harder between different types of people but it doesn't mean that the majority who think one way is 'smart' and all the others that have trouble understanding their way of thought are 'stupid'.
Intelligence implies, for the time being that there be superior beings and inferior beings. But existence doesn't imply any hierarchy. Existence is merely appreciated or not appreciated, and everyone has different preferences. We would all simply be 'different'. And it wouldn't be what you say to be nice to 'stupid' people. It would actually be true, if only people stopped being so efficiency driven.
+Kieran Le Cam These intelligences as far as I can see come from subjective parameters viewed from an unnecessarily narrow viewpoint. It's not scientific and has very little worth or application outside this guys musings. Any measure made for them would be inherently biased. It's like a modern phrenology, presented as if scientific but is anything but. In fact if taken seriously it could manifest some very worrying prejudices.
+david j h But the first two that he named are what are used to determine I.Q. At least they were back when I took the test. I think he was try to point out that there is more to intelligence than what we generally test for. And if we can define Math and Language intelligence, why can't we define others?
August Greig
I know what he was trying to do.His methodology is deeply flawed.
Also I.Q. is no measure for success in life. Why do you think that is? Just because there are measures out there doesn't mean they are accurate or worthwhile.
+david j h That may be true, but it isn't fair to compare it to phrenology. And, do you know what his methods were?
He makes like sound like creating a new character in an RPG. You only have so many skill points so choose carefully what tree you want to put them in.
Excellent!
Music is language. There is a link between verbal communication and the way we make music, and how music follows cultures and evolves, fuses, and continues to express.
I loved that. It's a question of values, not science.
Felicia Follum
But values can be boiled down to science. And in many cases it should be! ;)
Sigurd Fylling Kaarstad for some maybe. I think in many ways I disagree. Values come from culture and beliefs and they don't need science to exist kr be good. Not saying they can't. Science doesn't tell you to love everyone or fight for the oppressed. It tells you to love your kind or whose who benefit you...which would be a sad life.
Its also a question either to fit in this world or not..This world we are living wants us to be logical- mathematical thinkers in order to be ready to work in their corporations..If you focus on other intelligences you are probably not going to succeed..thats what This world tells me.
antwnhs92AnG shit. I'm just gonna end it all now.
Jenny Morris hmmm ?
i think humour is a combination of linguistic and interpersonal Intelligence.
Sexual intelligence i.e. one who is good at having sex is someone who has body kinetic and intrapersonal intelligence.
I would be interested in his thoughts about the notion of Wisdom and if/where it fits into his framework.
Love 💕 this video !
I have always subscribed to the wisdom of Howard Gardner however I differ in one respect. I believe that 5 year olds do pay attention to their answers for why...I just think that because we don't traditionaly respect and appreciate their level of inquiry they come to believe that dogma is what is valued. So sad especially when we are in a time when asking why may be the most important thing we can do.
Now the key question word is not why. The devil is clearly in the marketplace. The key question word is what. What are we going to do about the current madness? Talking is over...
I think he talks about cognitive functions ! but books / articles with INTELLIGENCE on its title sell more ;)
Dimitry Linnik makes sense
Dimitry Linnik >> Implying cognitive functions doesn't equal intelligence
That was really interesting. 👍
I like that musical intelligence is included. I don't have a lick of it so it really impresses me that someone can hear a note and identify it, know what chords it would sound good in, know how it's used in some song examples, etc. By that logic of using a sense organ as the basis for a type of intelligence, I believe that the color palette and the taste palate should also be the basis for types of intelligence. People who are skilled with colors and flavors (not me though haha) have an intelligence similar to musical intelligence that makes use of perception, discernment, cataloging, recall and creativity.
Intelligence number Zero:
Common sense intelligence - Finding which intelligence is needed and how to apply it in a particular situation.
There are many more and their applications can be far more broad and intertwined than this man had time or is capable of covering. It's trully fascinating. And as computers become more intelligent we are going to ha e to think very seriously about them. Same goes for when we begin to enhance our self's.
Ross Catto I suddenly find the field of intelligence comprehension very interesting
Great video
I agree some intelligence comes naturally, the question of value is personal. I enjoyed the humor at the end. Thank you!
I don't think the human brain can be divided into these 'intelligences'. The brain is far too complex and maliabal. Ever heard of neuro plasticity? The brain changes on a regular basis to solve new problems every day. New neuronic pathways are created everyone you learn something new. So really, these intelligences really can't be separated. They all fall under the same category of intelligence as a whole.
+I am Superman "hear"
Dunning Kruger Eh?
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+I am Superman The human brain absolutely can be divided into intelligences. It's actually shocking how much like a machine it is, a very complex one, but still. You can see really clear evidence of this in victims of brain damage, absolute proof that certain parts of the brain are responsible for specific "types" of tasks can be seen in these people, or in healthy people who you monitor with advanced equipment. For example you can have your linguistic intelligence broken and suddenly become really bad at forming sentences, or completely lose your ability to associate objects with words, even if you can say the word and define it easily outside of the task of associating it with the object in front of you. If the human brain was really just one bundle of singular intelligence with such grand malleability and plasticity, then we wouldn't see such specific loss of function, we'd just see an overall drop in intelligence after brain damage is sustained.
I've always had a question that stuck to me ever since I was 12 and that question was "if you were never born into what ever environment you were born in, would your conscious/the way you think still be the same if born into a different environment?"
That's the whole nature/nurture debate. I'm sure you would still have some of the same characteristics but it think we would fundamentally be different. For example it's easy for me a white American now to say if I was born in the 1700s I wouldn't be racist. Truthly though I can't know for sure it I was raised in an environment where since he beginning of my development I was taught to hate there's a much better likelihood I would become racist than me being raised recently with parents making sure I never pre judged any race or religion or sex etc. I grew up pretty privileged not even realizing that stuff existed till from what I remember was around the third grade.
I enjoyed your take. Rich, fun, cogent.
I would also add visual/artistic intelligence. It’s not just kinethetic but a way of perception and interpretation.