I'm having difficulty understanding your concept of mental building blocks. How did you come up with these categories?
To me, it seems that they are specific examples of different manifestations of general intelligence or personality traits. For example, could mental models of locations, sense of orientation, and rotating shapes be categorized as different "tasks" handled by mental rotation? I notice that "tailcalled" made a similar observation, noting that these building blocks might be related. I'm inclined to be pretty reductive and state that people simply have different personality traits and different levels of general intelligence and that this fact is important to bear in mind when interacting with others.
I'm having difficulty understanding your concept of mental building blocks. How did you come up with these categories?
To me, it seems that they are specific examples of different manifestations of general intelligence or personality traits. For example, could mental models of locations, sense of orientation, and rotating shapes be categorized as different "tasks" handled by mental rotation? I notice that "tailcalled" made a similar observation, noting that these building blocks might be related. I'm inclined to be pretty reductive and state that people simply have different personality traits and different levels of general intelligence and that this fact is important to bear in mind when interacting with others.
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