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Intelligence
Description
Intelligence is the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria. While brawn is always helpful for fights, someone with brains may show superior. Intelligence is most often studied in humans but has also been observed in both non-human animals and in plants despite controversy as to whether some of these forms of life exhibit intelligence. Intelligence in computers or other machines is called artificial intelligence.
The word intelligence derives from the Latin nouns intelligentia or intellēctus, which in turn stem from the verb intelligere, to comprehend or perceive. In the Middle Ages, the word intellectus became the scholarly technical term for understanding, and a translation for the Greek philosophical term nous. This term, however, was strongly linked to the metaphysical and cosmological theories of teleological scholasticism, including theories of the immortality of the soul, and the concept of the active intellect (also known as the active intelligence). This approach to the study of nature was strongly rejected by the early modern philosophers such as Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and David Hume, all of whom preferred "understanding" (in place of "intellectus" or "intelligence") in their English philosophical works. Hobbes for example, in his Latin De Corpore, used "intellectus intelligit", translated in the English version as "the understanding understandeth", as a typical example of a logical absurdity. "Intelligence" has therefore become less common in English language philosophy, but it has later been taken up (with the scholastic theories which it now implies) in more contemporary psychology.
Intelligence Quotient
An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from a set of standardized tests or subtests designed to assess human intelligence. The abbreviation "IQ" was coined by the psychologist William Stern for the German term Intelligenzquotient, his term for a scoring method for intelligence tests at University of Breslau he advocated in a 1912 book. Historically, IQ was a score obtained by dividing a person's mental age score, obtained by administering an intelligence test, by the person's chronological age, both expressed in terms of years and months. The resulting fraction (quotient) was multiplied by 100 to obtain the IQ score. For modern IQ tests, the raw score is transformed to a normal distribution with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. This results in approximately two-thirds of the population scoring between IQ 85 and IQ 115 and about 2.5 percent each above 130 and below 70.
Types
There is not a single form of intelligence, instead, there are multiple types that can apply to a person. This is the following:
- Academic Intelligence: Intelligence based on a character's academics or field, the highest levels of these characters are naturally knowledgeable in many fields allowing them to use it to their advantage.
- Combat Intelligence: Intelligence based on combat, this is based heavily on how fast one can learn and pick up complex martial arts skills.
- Street Intelligence: Intelligence based on outside influences and the world around one, these workaround manipulating, convincing, etcetera These characters at their best can talk people out of fighting, get info, and more.
- Intra-Personal: Intelligence based on understanding yourself, what you feel, and what you want.
- Spatial: Intelligence based on visualizing the world in 3-D.
- Naturalist: Intelligence based on understanding living things and reading nature.
- Musical: Intelligence based on discerning sounds, their pitch, tone, rhythm, and timbre.
Intelligence Levels
Mindless Intelligence
Lack a cognitive mind having them lack cognitive thought. These beings normally repeat the same word or speak in incomprehensible words and mumbles.
Examples:
Animalistic Intelligence
Beings, that only possess basic reasoning, awareness, and problem-solving skills.
Examples: Godzilla (Godzilla), Pikmin (Pikmin), Axolotl (The Real World)
Mental Disability Intelligence
Person below average intellects and unremarkable skills. Person normally has an IQ of 0 to 84.
Examples: GIR (Invader Zim)
Below Average Intelligence
Person below average intellect. Note someone with this is more so an airhead then someone with a non-functioning brain or they are just born into the world (infant). Normally school students, kids, and babies and such are at this level.
Examples: Indus Tarbella (Epithet Erased)
Average Intelligence
Characters of average intelligence. While they have more developed intelligence in certain subjects, in many cases, their overall intelligence remains average. Person normally has an IQ of 85 to 114. It should be noted that Average intellect starts for a person around late high-school and onwards levels of education.
Examples: Idealistic Standard Human
Gifted Intelligence
Character that demonstrates high reasoning ability, can master concepts with few repetitions, and display high-performance capability in intellectual, creative, or specific academic fields. A person's IQ level at this stage can be within these categories:
| Classification | IQ Range | σ | Prevalence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mildly gifted | 115–129 | +1.00–+1.99 | 1:6–1:44 |
| Moderately gifted | 130–144 | +2.00–+2.99 | 1:44–1:1,000 |
| Highly gifted | 145–159 | +3.00–+3.99 | 1:1,000–1:10,000 |
Examples: Walter White (Breaking Bad), Molly Blyndeff (Epithet Erased)
Genius Intelligence
- Examples: Captain Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean), Solid Snake (Metal Gear)
Genius level intelligence in one, or a few, areas of research. Individuals with an exceptional capacity for knowledge and intelligence, generally in one area of varying depth, often possessed by fictional scientists and strategists. An example of this level of intelligence are actual geniuses and famous intellectuals in the real world (Socrates, Stephen Hawkings, and, in lieu of better feats, should be the default intelligence category for fictional characters treated as if they have exceptional or superhuman intelligence. For Combat users this can be defined as being able to easily defeat other skilled warriors & learn techniques just from seeing them. A person's IQ level at this stage can be within these categories:
| Classification | IQ Range | σ | Prevalence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exceptionally gifted | 160–179 | +4.00–+5.33 | 1:10,000–1:1,000,000 |
| Profoundly gifted | 180– | +5.33– | < 1:1,000,000 |
Supergenius Intelligence
Individuals whose knowledge in a specific subject far surpasses the smartest human in that subject. For science users this would be their intelligence spreading over many fields of science and vastly surpass the intellects of the smartest humans on Earth. At this level, scientist/technology based people are capable of creating futuristic technology and battle heavy people are capable of accurately predicting the future through sheer mental calculations, or outperforming supercomputers. This is where super scientists of exceptional scientific knowledge begin to appear. Supergeniuses can often easily process calculations beyond modern humanity's combined capabilities on their own, and quickly come up with extremely complex plans. Possessed by those individuals with unfathomably superhuman intelligence and usually extensive mastery of most, or all, branches of science. Characters of such a scale tend to be super scientists capable of creating impossibly advanced physics-defying and reality-warping fantasy technology, and outsmarting even other extremely intelligent individuals. Characters at this level would also have ridicolously high IQs as they can still be measured under the human IQ system.
While these are not objectively the smartest men in each field, they are famously known and are up there as the smartest men in each field, for a character on this wiki to get Supergenius Intelligence in this field they would at least need to vastly surpass the people mentioned here:
- Science: Isaac Newton
- Swordsman: Miyamoto Musashi
- Martial Artist: Bruce Lee
- Gun Wielders: White Death (Simo Häyhä)
- Pilots: Red Baron (Manfred von Richthofen)
- Strategist: Hannibal Barca
- Generals: Genghis Kahn'
Examples: Hat Kid (A Hat in Time), Stephen (Megami Tensei), Lucca (Chrono Trigger)
Metagenius Intelligence
Individuals with incomprehensibly vast and superhuman intelligence, transcending ordinary human limits. Metageniuses are often experts in virtually every field of science, wielding intelligence far beyond the capabilities of any human being. Characters at this level would not be defined by an IQ as their intelligence transcends human understanding. These characters are capable of understanding things to the point that they have cosmic awareness through intelligence alone. Beings of this caliber are so far beyond Supergenius that merely being more intelligent than a Supergenius being isn't enough to give this level of intelligence. For note, cosmic-level geniuses can make higher dimensional objects that can warp reality to their pleasure, and have a complete understanding of the space-time continuum to the point that they can tell when shifts in the continuum have happened without the use of machines, etcetera. This can at times reach into cosmic levels of intelligence. Characters like these would have a great understanding over the cosmos as a whole, being capable to even do actions such as re-create it.
Examples: Herta & Ruan Mei (Honkai: Star Rail), Dracula (Castlevania)
Cosmic Intelligence
At the highest level of intellect, characters have the intelligence of the entire universe or multiverse. These users can achieve a state similar to Omniscience, where they have the intelligence of the entire universe or multiverse. Standard examples come from one who has viewed an omnipotent entity and has received the endless information of the universe into them, allowing them to compute or learn anything instantly, or they are the universe itself and thus anything they learn will come instantly as it is part of them.
Examples: Ness (MOTHER 2), Stephen (Megami Tensei)
Additional terms
At least
Should be used to denote the lower intelligence cap of a character, if the exact value is indeterminate. Usually listed for characters that have shown to be an intelligence level superbly casually.
At most
Should be used to denote the higher intelligence cap of a character, if the exact value is indeterminate. Usually listed for characters that have put all their effort into the intelligence feat.
Likely
Should be used to list a hypothetical intelligence level for a character, but inconclusive due to uncertainty. The probability of said hypothetical statistic should be favorable.
Possibly
Should be used to list a hypothetical intelligence level for a character, but inconclusive due to uncertainty. The probability of said hypothetical statistic should also be indeterminate.
Notes
- One could have multiple feats that qualify for Metagenius Intelligence, however, if they have a defined IQ level made by humans then they would be in the higher ends of Supergenius Intelligence instead. This is because a Metagenius transcends the ability to be measured by all human-made intelligence systems. The exceptions apply if it's a super-intelligent alien species that already transcend human intelligence making the IQ levels or if it's an objective IQ level made by an omniscient or cosmic being.
- While some feats in a fictional verse may go beyond what a regular human can do, remember that in the context of the fiction, there may be times when an author did not realize this to be the case and intended them just to be a genius human, the narrative of a characters intelligence matters much as Supergenius Intelligence & Metagenius Intelligence are meant to be reserved for the most intelligent beings.
