It’s roughly saying that intelligence at birth is knowing your situation.
You’re aware of your situation. Hopefully that would lead you to seeking ways to get out of it if it’s distasteful, or using it to it’s fullest advantage if you like it.
I don’t think that reflection is innate
as I know plenty of adults who will never reach the point of intelligence if intelligence means reflective self-awareness – even if I wish that they would try
It’s kind of a tautology, isn’t it? I mean, what you know is what you know.
I don’t see why you weren’t friendly and put your question in the title instead of the details (i.e., Do you agree that “innate intelligence is reflective self-awareness”?) That would have been so much nicer!
@boots A little while ago, I tried to ask the question ‘What if God was all of us?’ and it was’nt quite accepted for exposure. You know the song,right?,but not quite.
@lloydbird you mean “What if God was one of us?”, that would be weird if he was all of us. Constantly fighting himself and arguing with himself…..wait…..that makes sense….God is schizo and we are his other personalities!!
It’s one of those sayings that can be discussed endlessly, but mean very little. And “innate” is tautologous, anyway. intelligence (except in the sense that spymasters use it) is never other than innate.
It’s not saying that. It’s saying that knowing yourself (how you react, how you fit your situation, how other’s perceive you, ect…) is an intelligence.
Not to me. It might if it said “entails,” “enhances,” fosters,” or some other verb expressive of relationship, and then I could comment on it. But “is”—identity, an equation, a definition, a tautological statement—doesn’t.
Perhaps you need to define “intelligence.” There are some really intelligent animals out there, like gorillas, but I would question whether or not they engage in “self reflection.”