2.2 Dimensions of Intelligence

Intelligence consists of different dimensional Capabilities

Intelligence can be observed and described in terms of Capabilities that exist across many different dimensions, and while there is no single definitive and exhaustive list, there are some well recognized dimensions of Intelligence, of which most Humans simultaneously possess multiple, such as the following examples:

1. Adaptive Intelligence - the ability to learn and adapt to new and changing environments.

2. Aesthetic Intelligence - the ability to appreciate and create art and beauty.

3. Bodily-kinesthetic Intelligence - the ability to control and coordinate one's body movements.

4. Bodily communication Intelligence – the ability to use and understand physical body movements to communicate.

5. Collaborative Intelligence - the ability to work effectively with others in a collaborative manner.

6. Creative Intelligence - the ability to generate and implement new and innovative ideas.

7. Critical thinking Intelligence - the ability to analyze and evaluate information, and make sound decisions based on that analysis.

8. Cultural creativity Intelligence - the ability to create new cultural products, such as literature, art, music, and film.

9. Cultural Intelligence - the ability to understand and navigate different cultural contexts.

10. Cyber Intelligence - the ability to understand and navigate digital and online contexts.

11. Cybersecurity Intelligence - the ability to understand and mitigate cyber threats and protect information.

12. Ecological Intelligence - the ability to understand and interact with ecosystems and the natural environment in a sustainable way.

13. Emotional Intelligence - the ability to understand and manage one's own emotions, as well as the emotions of others.

14. Emotional regulation Intelligence - the ability to regulate and manage one's emotions effectively in different situations.

15. Empathetic Intelligence - the ability to accurately sense the emotions of others and correctly conceptualize what someone else is feeling and thinking.

16. Environmental Intelligence - the ability to understand and interact with the natural environment.

17. Existential Intelligence - the ability to contemplate and reflect on philosophical and existential questions.

18. Financial Intelligence - the ability to understand and manage financial matters effectively.

19. Futuristic Intelligence - the ability to imagine and plan for future possibilities and scenarios.

20. Global Intelligence - the ability to understand and navigate global and cross-cultural contexts.

21. Intercultural Intelligence - the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively across different cultures.

22. Interdisciplinary Intelligence - the ability to integrate knowledge and skills from different disciplines to solve complex problems.

23. Interpersonal Intelligence - the ability to understand and relate to other people.

24. Intrapersonal Intelligence - the ability to understand oneself, one's thoughts, and emotions.

25. Intuitive emotional Intelligence - the ability to intuitively understand and respond to emotional cues in oneself and others.

26. Intuitive Intelligence - the ability to understand and solve problems without conscious reasoning.

27. Leadership Intelligence - the ability to understand and influence group dynamics and achieve goals through effective leadership.

28. Linguistic Intelligence - the ability to use language effectively, both in written and spoken form.

29. Linguistic-phonetic Intelligence - the ability to understand and use the sounds and rhythms of language.

30. Logical-mathematical Intelligence - the ability to reason logically and solve mathematical problems.

31. Metacognitive Intelligence - the ability to understand and control one's own cognitive processes and strategies.

32. Moral Intelligence - the ability to understand and act on moral principles and values.

33. Musical Intelligence - the ability to understand and create music.

34. Naturalist Intelligence - the ability to recognize and understand patterns in nature.

35. Personal Intelligence - the ability to understand one's own personality and motivations, and use that understanding to achieve goals.

36. Planning Intelligence – the ability to dynamically conceive and temporally construct logically interlinked functional components and higher order processes within a sequential system in order to achieve an objective.

37. Physical Intelligence - the ability to adapt one's body position and movements in relation to a dynamically changing surrounding physical environment.

38. Physical intuition Intelligence - the ability to understand and interpret physical sensations and cues, such as in sports or dance.

39. Political Intelligence - the ability to understand and navigate political systems and processes.

40. Practical Intelligence - the ability to adapt to and navigate real-life situations and solve practical problems.

41. Psychopathic Intelligence – the ability to achieve complex personal objectives by damaging the welfare of others.

42. Social Intelligence - the ability to understand and navigate social situations and relationships.

43. Sociopathic Intelligence – the ability to achieve complex personal objectives by manipulating the welfare of others.

44. Spatial Intelligence - the ability to visualize objects and manipulate them mentally in space.

45. Spatial-temporal Intelligence - the ability to understand and manipulate visual and spatial relationships, as well as understand and work with temporal relationships and patterns.

46. Spiritual creativity Intelligence - the ability to create new spiritual or religious practices, beliefs, or systems.

47. Spiritual Intelligence - the ability to explore and understand spiritual or transcendental concepts.

48. Strategic Intelligence - the ability to plan and execute strategies to achieve specific goals.

49. Sympathetic Intelligence - the ability to accurately sense and feel the same emotions as others based on a shared understanding in specific situations such as, injustice, loss, and sorrow.

50. Systems Intelligence – the ability to understand the functional linkage of components and processes.

51. Technological Intelligence - the ability to understand and use technology effectively.

Greater Intelligence is the effective use more dimensional Capabilities

There are certainly various levels and dimensions of Intelligence that enable different Capabilities, and there is ongoing debate about these. For example, it can be considered that some non-Human biological Intelligent entities possess unique Capabilities such as 'Radar Navigated Flight Intelligence' – the ability to naturally fly, and simultaneously emit and sense ultrasonic frequencies for spatial echo-location and real-time flight navigation. Bats possess this specific dimensional Capability.

The levels and dimensions of Intelligence in all its forms and Capabilities is perhaps unlimited. 

One thing seems certain, the raw ability to simultaneously process different types of information in addition to extremely large quantities of information, and then use this information to take action and achieve some goal, is absolutely central to the Capabilities and associated benefits of Intelligence.

IT IS CRITICAL TO UNDERSTAND THIS:  Any entity that contains and can effectively use more dimensions of Intelligence and associated Capabilities than another entity to achieve their goals, contains greater total Intelligence, and therefore has greater ability to dominate and control other less Intelligent entities.

Reference: [99] What The 2030s Will Look Like with Ray Kurzweil - Star Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJF6GoE-R8s - Published: 23 Nov 2022