Tiers of Intelligence

There’s tiers of intelligence. I’m just going to go over them.

1.Reactive. It just moves according to stimuli.
2.Interactive. It interacts with things in its environment.
3.Communitive. It understands how to socialize with other lifeforms.
4.Extra-communitive. It forms into social hierarchies and communities and forms social behaviors.
5.Existential. It has an awareness of self. And possibly a sense of humor.
6.Extra Existential. It not only has an awareness of self, but also has an ego—will look into a mirror is an example of this.
7.Creative. It has catharsis, and needs creative activity to keep it interested. Elephants and Dolphins are the only animals known to have this so far. Not even Chimpanzees.

Now above this, only humans have.

8. Reason. The ability to put things together, and build upon them to higher principles, and find things through putting things together in new ways.

9. Judgment. The ability to correctly identify right and wrong.

10. Logos. The ability to not only judge and reason, but correctly interpret patterns and understand them the right way.

11. Prophetic. The ability to construct patterns, and predict them. Which is what Calculus does, actually. You need a Prophetic Intelligence to understand it. (I don’t mean “Prophet” as in a Bible Prophet, but rather someone who can understand and predict behaviors and trends before they happen, by analyzing previous data. Or an ability to form conclusions with incomplete data.)

Some people have high IQs but lack certain kinds of intelligence, and some people have lower IQs but have the higher cognitions. It’s really not about IQ, but your capacity. And unfortunately, having a High IQ doesn’t always correlate with having higher forms of cognition. It really only measures Reason.

I’d also say, some people only come to tier 6. So, there are some animals that are more intelligent than humans. But, humanity has a moral worth the animals don’t. I don’t know how to quantify that, but it’s not necessarily intelligence that makes us human, but God’s image being borne in us. That’s the only thing I can say… and why humanity has a moral worth higher than all other life forms on Earth.