Intelligence and Reason

by Maria Odete Madeira

Intelligence has its etymological root in the Latin intelligentia, term composed of intus,which means within, and legere, which means to choose, to elect.

Intelligence is a dispositional systemic capability to perceive, capture, select and process data and knowledge, from cognitive (co)dynamics, linked to dynamics of interpretation and comprehension, genetically incorporated in all the living systems.

Reason has its etymological origin in the Latin Ratio, meaning Calculation. Rationem ducere means computare, to calculate.

All the living systems actively depend upon the cognitive processes.

All the living systems are producers and consumers of knowledge.

In any cognitive processing intervene dynamics of Intelligence and dynamics of Reason. Intelligence and Reason are not dynamics exclusive of a given living system, but of all the living systems.