How much of this is due abstract thought? For example, understanding that a crop in the field is food. As long as immediate needs are met, having something now and in the future is equivalent. It's merely an academic difference, of course with other concepts attached.
Same with law and punishment. To an intelligent person the threat of prison is prison, not simply prison in the future. "Running is no way to live" is true because the threat of prison is a kind of prison itself for someone capable of abstract thought.
I'm no expert in this stuff. Not even well read. But it's pretty obvious that indeed it is a measure of intelligence.
Teefinyomouf 1 points 3.6 years ago
How much of this is due abstract thought? For example, understanding that a crop in the field is food. As long as immediate needs are met, having something now and in the future is equivalent. It's merely an academic difference, of course with other concepts attached.
Same with law and punishment. To an intelligent person the threat of prison is prison, not simply prison in the future. "Running is no way to live" is true because the threat of prison is a kind of prison itself for someone capable of abstract thought.
I'm no expert in this stuff. Not even well read. But it's pretty obvious that indeed it is a measure of intelligence.