Intelligence
is a complex interpretation of the capability for a range of different
types of thinking.
In our revised
model of how the brain works intelligence relies on three factors:
1.
The Speed of Cognition: This is primarily a genetic issue BUT it is
also affected by the astrocytes that map and are constantly interrogating
concepts/patterns within our brains. The greater the number of concepts
in the brain the more interrogation and consequently this interrogation
slows the cognition rate. This slowing is minor but it does affect
our capacity to sequence ideas.
2.
Concept
Domain Capability Range: The range of capacity within any one intelligence
domain. In music this may be the capacity across a number of instruments
(contexts) that the capability is displayed.
3.
Concept
Domain Complexity: This is the degree of complexity of capability
within a particular domain. Once again in a musical context this would
be the capability to apply that conceptual framework to a very high
level.
From this we can
develop 3 dimensional graphical representations of intelligence for
particular "types" of learners. The green frame represents
the speed of cognition.
500
Trillion: Estimated number of synaptic connections in an
adult brain
Huang
Gregory; New Scientist;
3 May 2008
Autism
. . .and Savantism
To explain both of these conditions we propose a model where the
interaction between the astrocytes and the neurons is dysfunctional
to some degree for reasons we are presently unsure of.
If
this was the case then the upshot of this would be far less (almost
none) astrocytes interrogating the neurons in savants allowing the
neurons to fire as fast as when the person was first born. As a
consequence the brain would be able to sequence events far more
efficiently which is why we learn language so wll when we are young
as language is a rote lernt process and relies almost exclusively
on sequencing of letters-words-sentences-paragraphs etc.
The
savant can sequence numbers, words and even artistic elements with
ease but they would only be able to recall but not frame up concepts
from what they had seen, heard or experienced via their senses.
In this model the true savant would have no capacity to be creative
in any way at all as they would not have the capacity to ever form
conceptual frameworks, only being able to learn via rote, albeit
doing that extrordinary well. .
