Opinions on Factors of Intelligence.

Interesting topic of discussion with a coworker tonight during some down time. As brief as it was, a lot was covered.
Topic was, as you see in title, Intelligence.

It has been rumored for a long time that classical music helps infants with their intelligence, which I believe. But i didn't think it had an influence on adults intelligence as well....
I listen to classical music because it calms me. Settles me. It is remarkably beautiful to my ears and my mind.
Either way, I feel as though the intelligence of someone is like a hard drive of a computer- well at least the memory of it anyway, and the way/speed of learning is like our RAM. (if I'm getting the computer terminology right, anyway) Well, some people are somewhat cursed with a low meg HD, and RAM. where as others have multiple TB of both. (Hawking) Unfortunately, we are still limited to what we can know... Every thing in our lives is recorded in some aspect or another, A/V,Txt, .gif, .jpeg PowerPoint W/e- It is in there in some form. Sometimes we don't remember, because we threw it in the back of the storage room (diff term, sry) thinking we will never need it again. It'll be like that little piece of a toy that goes all the way down to the bottom of your toy box. You never see it again until, well you do... i guess... Well, the fact is, it is still there taking up space in some way. You may never need it in your life, like what you had for breakfast on January 13th 1994. Does it matter? Unless it was a special day, or a special occasion- no. It doesn't matter at all. We keep the most recent events up close to the front, so we can recall to it when we need to, like remembering your dentist appointment on Monday. Its right up front in the storage. But when Tuesday comes, that file gets thrown to the back, because it isn't needed anymore- until someone asks about it, then you have to dig for the file (RAM/ thinking about it-) and Ding! oh! yeah! Then it becomes relevant again- but then gets thrown to the back again.

Now. Common sense.
This may be odd, but WTF is common sense? A COMMON knowledge amusingly know by all people. Sounds fairly accurate, right?
Think about it this way. Why do you not stick your head in the oven to see if its pre-heated? Why do you not stick your finger in a plug to see if it has power? The same reason you don't try to breathe under water in a swimming pool.
It. WILL. SUCK.
And hurt like hell... But mostly SUCK.
Small children don't know fire is hot until they touch it...
They also do not understand the concept of gravity- like pulling things off of shelves, and why some things are heavier, and cannot be thrown as far. Baby doesn't have common sense yet. He will smack himself in the head with the rattle a dozen times before he starts to understand "cause and effect"
"I hold the rattle, and swing my arm up here... the rattle hits my head. It hurts.... Don't like that hurt... better not do that again." Though it will be more than a dozen times, but you get the idea. Common sense to a 10 year old is much different than a 2 year olds common sense., fire is hot, don't play with power outlets, etc. 10 gets it. 2 does not. 2 y/o doesn't understand leverage, and what-not so pulling his highchair on top of him was a total surprise to him. He knows he can push it easily, but the tip-over was new. He learned something today- which in early years 0-5 is a basic "common sense learning" period- learning to feed yourself, use the potty, dress yourself, walk talk, etc- then gets to age 5 where its all brand new! its exciting, and its all fun.
Learning is fun now because this is a big world- everything is huge to a 5yo. So many things to see and do, and not enough time in the day. What to learn first, what question to ask? All of them child. Ask them all. Learn all you can. Fill up that hard drive head with knowledge of your interests and become the person you should be.

This is where we get to measures on intellect on specific attributes.
I can cook okay. I can write fairly well, and play video games.
I know i can do these things because i have had interests in them at some point.
I know almost nothing about sports or cars, because i was more interested in movies and computers.
A good way to look at it is, would you hire your dentist to fix your car? (unless he used to be a mechanic) Naah. Your dentist has the branch of knowledge you do not have, oral hygiene and oral surgical procedures. Your mechanic knows how to fix your car, what is making that noise, etc.
They know about it because they were interested in that topic enough to learn about it and build a career out of it. Which is awesome in my book. So, when it comes to movies, Bob may be able to tell you exactly how that scene was done, but Sam, who is more into sports, couldn't care less HOW it was done, it was just freakin' awesome. That's all he wants to know. Don't wreck it for Sam. >.<

I like that one, i could go on about it. But i suppose the main point would be, someones lack of knowledge on a topic doesn't not imply they are unintelligent all together, it means they flourish where you perish mentally.

Wisdom-
Collaboration of life lived information and personal situations which can be passed to others with need of the knowledge.
My 5yo looks at me like i have all the answers. I look at my parents like THEY have all the answers, as my parents did with theirs.
He asks me "what does _____ mean?" because i have been here a lot longer than him. He asks the people who he trusts, and who have been around it long enough to know. Smart move, bud!
It makes people feel old to call it wisdom, but it shouldn't. Several people have wisdom of double their age. One guy in his 20's has the wisdom of one who has lived several lives. Sharp as a tack, that one.
Some people have claimed i am wise for my age as well, or even that I am intelligent.
Well is several aspects, yeah. I suppose I can see where you can come to that conclusion- but simply by the way i speak? That's new to me, sir. Not bad. Just new.
Though asking a 90 yo about his child hood may not come to be so clear. Like i said before, our minds are limited to space... and we store everything. He has 90 years of memories, conversations, 90 birthday parties (well 85 if you go with the common sense learning stage) - its a lot to store, so it starts to compress these memories to smaller bits of information- compressing his 16th birthday party from 2GB down to, oh, say 4MB? that's one hell of a compression. Anyone who has fooled with compression knows it is hard to crush a file so big to a file so small and keep good quality. It looses frames, gets pixelated, distorted- looks like crap. Well, that's what his 16th bday looks like to him... missing pieces, fuzzy, and he was in his car, and flushed the toilet and then blew out the candles- Wait. Grampa? you had a toilet in your car and a cake with candles in your lap? It must be time for your medication. "Who are you?"
That's when they forget things too. The drive is full, and nothing can be compressed any more than it is already. Nothing new can be written unless files are removed. I can learn to use the universal remote control, but i have to for get my daughter's name first. It sucks.

And this, ladies and gentlemen is how you potato...

It has also been said that people of higher intellect stay up later at night, most likely because it is the most stimulating time of day, - everyone is asleep, few annoying distractions- its why some people sleep all day and work all night- creatively anyway - --- and over the course of the day, the mind is stimulated to such a degree, it needs a time to wind down and become tired, but sense there are so many things going on in the brain at the time (multiple programs at once) it is hard to stop the process of thinking when stimulated. Example: Me. Writing this. After working 7hours (4p-11p), staying up to write this until 2:40am- fully aware of needing to be at work again at 6am-3p. So, 2 hrs of sleep? Not so good. But my mind is still working... Must Cmd+Q . . .