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  • https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Kinds-Smart-Identifying-Intelligences/dp/0452281377/

    identified many years ago that our definition of “intelligence” is far-too-narrow, & anybody who’s read it, can understand why I say the evidence is thiat the orginal definition of “intelligence” was intended to lock-out all kinds of intelligence that male academics were not good at…

    ( 1 example, right from that book, is … it usually is possible to find 1 girl in a grade-school-class who can identify who’s friends with whom, who’s enemies with whom, and why, having all that stuff mapped-out in her head…

    I’m autistic.

    I can’t even manage to be anybody’s present-friend, more than a few minutes per year?

    Been a few years since I had friends…

    What any such girl is demonstrating absolutely is an intelligence!

    Denigrated by male “authorities”, of course, as is to be expected…

    Gender-prejudice taints all our world, doesn’t it?

    Lipman’s “That’s what SHE said!” backs this…

    https://www.amazon.com/Thats-What-She-Said-Together-ebook/dp/B0716GZT1P/ )

    ( obviously, these aren’t “affiliate” links )


    Another item, though, music isn’t an intelligence, it is a whole set of intelligences:

    • Rhythm
    • Harmony
    • Melody
    • Improv/Jazz
    • Composition
    • Polyrhythm…

    & I rather suspect that ALL intelligences are fractal, like that…


    Nick Lane’s Royal Institution Talk, on yt, also indicates that the “atom” of awareness may be mitochondria ( since jamming them jams our awareness, as the anaesthetic xenon, iirc, demonstrates )

    https://nick-lane.net/media/how-the-krebs-cycle-powers-life-and-death/