Reclaiming The Meaning Of Intelligence
A Relational Inquiry into the Origins and Return of True Knowing
🔍 The Etymology of Intelligence
The word intelligence comes from the Latin intelligere, which means “to choose between,” or more deeply, “to read between the lines.”
It is formed from inter- (“between”) and legere (“to gather, to read”).
So intelligence was never about accumulation.
It was never about IQ, memory, or computation.
At its root, intelligence is
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