The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.
The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.
I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.
The first week in intelligence school, you learn there are only two conditions in life. There is policy success, or there is intel failure. There is no other condition in life.
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.