People have general abilities {intelligence}| used to adapt to environment. Intelligence is the way that mind processes information.
decision making
Intelligence is ability to do something person never did before. It is making good predictions about what will happen and making good behavior choices. It is grasping essentials in given situation and responding appropriately to them. It detects relations and associations to improve decision making, by formulating hypotheses and finding implications. It includes deductive reasoning and problem solving. It is quickness and efficiency in doing many abilities. It involves flexibility and creativity. It involves responding correctly to stimuli, thinking abstractly, adjusting to environment, adapting to new situations, knowing, unifying complex stimuli, inhibiting instincts, using trial and error, socializing well, learning easily, learning from experience, and solving problems.
properties
Intelligence provides the following abilities. Respond flexibly to situations. Recognize change. Understand ambiguous or contradictory information. Know object and event relative importance. Perceive similarities. Perceive distinctions. Use concepts to synthesize new concept. Imagine well. Create. Recognize patterns or repetitions. Generalize from cases. Have complex world model.
poison
Perhaps, intelligence relates to ability to resist poisons and infections or to make few poisons and toxins in environment.
symbols
Perhaps, intelligence relates to want, need, or motivation for symbols. It is not an aptitude but desire or emotion.
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