jarchamb

Intelligence is the capacity to direct our behavior in the face of external circumstances and events. The more it integrates rational thinking, emotions, intuitions and acquired knowledge, the more we are intelligent. This is all contained into the workings of the brain. Even the "extended" cognition is only using previously created artifacts to enhance our memory, the same as we use books. As for identity, it is perceived from inside as we build a model of ourselves. We test our thoughts with feedback we gather. Our identity evolves with experience and incidents. The systemic identity of an individual is its uniqueness in the collective, and is observed from the behavior of the individual in selective circumstances. Nobody ever discovers the entirety of the identity, which only exists at the boundary between inside and outside, that is not observable from either points of view.