Intelligence In Aesop's The Crow And The Pitcher

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Aesop’s Fables, stories written by a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE, contains the tale The Crow and the Pitcher. This fable describes the struggle of a thirsty crow and a pitcher filled with water at the bottom, out of reach of the crow’s beak. The bird tries to push the pitcher over, and fails, but he refuses to give up. He begins to collect up pebbles, and drops them into the pitcher until the water is pushed up and high enough from him to drink from. In many versions, a moral lesson is stressed; brain over brawn. However, more importantly, it relates very early observation of corvid behavior that scientific studies of today have confirmed is goal directed and indicative of actual understanding instead of just conditioning. It can be argued that Humans are the most intelligent group of animals, the alpha species of creatures with brains. We have conquered survivorship by being able to mentally adapt, and act accordingly. Because of this we …show more content…

Freeman in his article What is Intelligence?, “the designers of mental tests have frequently said that it is not only unnecessary, but probably futile to raise the question which is the subject of this article, and that the answer would be no use if we could find it.” It can be agreed that intelligence is, but not agreed what it is. However, we do not need to know the nature of intelligence in order to measure it. One of my favorite theories is that of multiple intelligences. These intelligences can include; musical-rhythmic, visual-spatial, verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, interpersonal, naturalistic, and existential. What is strong about this theory is its lack of expansion of the definition of intelligence. It denies to agree with the way intelligence has been understood in the past. Intelligence is more than just ability or aptitude, and Intelligence is distinguishable from

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