Intelligence

## Description

The term “intelligence” is complex and has been used to describe a wide range of abilities, including processing information, logical thinking, self-awareness, creativity, reasoning, problem-solving, and knowledge. Its full definition encompasses all of these qualities, making it challenging to quantify in versus debating terms. Many individuals may have a high level of ability in one area, such as knowledge, while lacking in others, such as emotional intelligence, planning, or creativity.

In contrast to making attempts to quantify intelligence, pages should include information that intelligence has many aspects. When describing the intelligence of characters, detail their areas of strength while recognizing any intellectual weaknesses. Characters can possess an average level of general knowledge but exceed in specific topics, which can be recognized as examples of their intelligence.

## Levels of Intelligence

Quantifying the intelligence of characters is unreliable, and any rankings should be treated as suggestions and guidelines rather than definitive. Pages should provide information about a character's intelligence and provide examples of their varied skills instead of relying on a firm ranking. However, having a ranking may help in summarizing a character's intellect and how it compares to others, although it should not take precedence over highlighting their intellectual capabilities.

**Mindless**: Characters that are incapable of thinking and simply behave based on pre-programmed behavior patterns. Examples include simple organisms, and individual insects.

**Instinctive**: Characters that react to stimuli based on pre-programmed behavior patterns but may display some level of consciousness. Examples include most animals and even human babies.

**Animalistic**: Characters that display some level of reasoning, awareness, and simple problem-solving skills, but still operate mostly on instinct. Examples include non-human primates and some species of birds.

**Advanced Animalistic**: Highly intelligent animals that have the capacity to use tools or can solve complex problems. Examples include dolphins, chimpanzees, and some species of crows and octopi.

**Below Average**: Characters whose cognitive abilities fall below the average range, and they may struggle with complex problems or critical thinking.

**Average**: Characters whose intellect is comparable to the general population, and their abilities are unremarkable. They neither excel nor struggle in any particular area.

**Above Average**: Characters with cognitive abilities that exceed the average range, but they do not stand out in any particular field. They may be proficient in a wide range of subjects, but they may not be considered experts in any of them.

**Gifted**: Characters who possess exceptional reasoning ability, are able to rapidly grasp complex concepts, and demonstrate a high level of proficiency or remarkable mastery in intellectual or specific academic fields, equivalent to real-world experts in these areas.

**Genius**: Individuals with an exceptional capacity for knowledge and intelligence, who typically excel in a particular area of knowledge, expertise, or skill. This level is comparable to real-world geniuses, polymaths, and extraordinary intellectuals, such as Newton or Einstein. In the absence of other notable achievements or evidence, this tier is considered as the standard for exceptional intelligence in fictional characters.

**Super genius** The highest level of superintelligence reserved for individuals with incomprehensibly extraordinary levels of intellect, they can develop technology that borders on the impossible, enabling them to achieve seemingly limitless feats, often with a single, sophisticated invention.

### Another terms of Intelligence

**Quasi-Omniscience:** Characters in this rank are nearly-all knowing, but they lack of a bit of knowledge in certain terms.

**Omniscience:** More like a superpower, this is a state of being, in which a character knows everything, they know every action, thing in their own fictional verse