Intelligence

For example, consider the following set of example concept linkages with strengths:

    A -> E 10
    A -> F  5
    B -> F  5
    C -> F  5

Now, suppose that a person has concepts A, B, and C in mind. What will the next concept be? If the person is smart, the next concept will be F - the combined strength of 5 from A, B, and C adds up to 15, which is the winner. If the person is stupid, however, three concept links may be too many to activate simultaneously - and the next concept will therefore be E, which is the strongest link that can be made given the limit on the number which can be used as once.

How does intelligence manifest itself? More intelligent people will prefer more complex relationships; less intelligent people will be restricted to simpler ones.

People slightly less intelligent than the observer seem a bit slow on the uptake - they can understand things once they're explained, but don't seem to get there themselves without some help. People significantly less intelligent than the observer seem to have a very simplistic view of the world - they seem as if they are ignoring what is going on and responding to some very small subset of the data available to them, and often responding inappropriately at that.

People more intelligent than the observer seem to reach conclusions faster - instead of needing to have things explained to them, they're the ones who are usually doing the explaining. People significantly more intelligent than the observer just seem weird - they do things which do not seem to be making any sense whatsoever, jumping around in a long series of what appear to be utter non-sequiturs, except occasionally they produce successful results.