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Intellectus (Nous)

Capacity for

  • logic
  • abstract thought
  • understanding
  • self-awareness
  • communication
  • learning
  • emotional knowledge
  • memory
  • planning
  • creativity and problem solving
Intellectus.png

Source: Edward Grant, "Celestial Orbs in the Latin Middle Ages", Isis, Vol. 78, No. 2. (Jun., 1987), pp. 152-173.

Intelligence in Nature

Animals

  • Human
  • Non-human - g Factor
    • Vertabrates: Mammals, birds, reptiles, fish Cephalopods
    • Arthropods
    • Plants - Perception?

Neuroscience and intelligence

Human

  • Brain volume
  • Grey matter
  • White matter
  • Cortical thickness
  • Neural efficiency

Primate

  • Brain size

Brain-to-body mass ratio