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- No, it isn’t.
Is it intelligence to attribute this quote to Monty Python, or isn’t it?
Remembering things is traditionally considered a part of intelligence, memory that is. The subject has been discussed for ages. Personally I favor the statistical definition based on the observation that given a range of different intelligence tasks, individuals that succeed in one task generally succeed in other tasks. There is shared variance, a g-factor. Intelligence.
Good point. I used to heavily criticize rote memorization for being distinct from intelligence because: school. It's painful to go through so many years of school where everyone is seemingly complicit on rote memorization being equal to "winning".
I grew up, and it still pains me but I had it better explained to me that memorizing things doesn't equal intelligence, but those people that remember a lot have a much larger pool of information to draw upon. So whatever definition I use for intelligence, like synthesis, well, a large pool of information to draw from probably helps a whole lot.