Practice Practice Practice
It looks like all I need is more practice. Intersting article on the nature of intelligence as it applies to games such as Go and Chess
The board games chess and GO take practice, not intellect, brain scans of players suggest . Intelligence areas appear inactive when people puzzle over game strategy...
Sheng He concedes that expert players, or those with money riding on a game, might stretch their minds more. In the test, players pondered the best move in a non-competitive scenario...
"Most of the stuff we think of as smart is based on experience," says psychology expert John Gabrieli of Stanford University in California.
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Chris might have a few interesting comments on this topic. It gets a bit frustrating when cognitive scientists oppose a term like intelligence to experience or memory. These are very common terms, but they do not seem to correspond to average usage. For these scientists, it seems, the distinction is clear, since there are "different areas" which are lighting up on brain scans. But this is one of the greatest rubs in behavioral and social sceince--connecting the actual "experience" or real life meaning of a concept with the supposed empirical observations of that concept.
Posted by: dende blogger | December 11, 2002 8:00 PM