YOU HAVE A META INTELLIGENCE

Play is a meta intelligence

Play in essence, is about  "How to learn"

Meta-intelligence relates to awareness, adaptability, and the relative comparisons of different mental frameworks, models, and sets of behavior.

Meta-intelligence is best understood as fully integrated with all forms of intelligence in a person, reacting to them and developing with them as a whole person 

Meta-intelligence helps us to break free from the way we see the world, for example giving  attention to the name of things more than their essence.  Meta Intelligence helps us to step outside from the way we perceive what we are doing or saying. It is the root and the essence of what we are doing or saying.  

 Play.

 This allows us to let go of the semantics and go beyond and underneath and find a common ground.  Such an ability, a capacity is essential for looking beyond the limited view, the model of the world we become attached to and identify with.

Meta Intelligence can give insights into what people are doing or saying.

A Meta Intelligence has the capacity to solve difficult problems and issues. It is this Meta Intelligence this play intelligence which develops, not so much the capacity to be smart, but  the capacity to use our common sense, 

and  be wise.

Meta is behind  together and changes

Play is the Meta Intelligence of  various Intelligences

there is no seperation

When one plays it enables a person to understand when their brain is wasting its time, or working against their interests. 

To Play keeps a person from digging themselves into a hole with their abilities. Play provides perspective. 

It offers strategic understanding from a high vantage point

Play is a Meta Intelligence

Behind all intelligences together with all intelligences changes all intelligences

Natural

Without the ability to play, the various intelligences will not be developed. And to develop rnulti intelligences a meta intelligence is

needed to cross over beyond and connect. Play is this Meta Intelligence, the glue which connects them and yet stilt remains a free

changing agent moving through them and creating new possibilities which eventually become new abilities - new intelligences."

 

Play is the Meta Language behind all forms of communication

Play is the Meta Code -

The binary code of all mathematical formulations regarding intelligence

A Question   Is Play  (playful ) a way of being,   and intelligence something else?

Being  Logical is  ”a way of being”   and an intelligence. ( they are one and the same)

Being Musical is “a way of being”    and an intelligence. ( they are one and the same)

Being Natural is “a way of being”  and an intelligence. ( they are one and the same)

Being Playful is a way of being  and an intelligence.  (They are one and the same)

The key to any Intelligence is in having the “ability”.  The intelligence called “Logical” is based on  a combination of several abilities if not dozens. Which eventually develops, through a playing with various abilities, (combining various abilities) until they fuse together into a seemingly single unit which we call Logical intelligence. 

Due to the works of Howard Gardner and others, the classical  definition of Intelligence has now broken free from its restraining prison. And The definition of intelligence, has become more flexible more fluid  and varied.   The 8 or 9 Intelligences so far being defined is only the beginning,  I predict it will be discovered that there are as many intelligences as there are “ways of being”,  And the role of abilities (Human Universals) will play a major role, for all these multitudes of intelligences “are” based on “Having the ability” Play develops naturally this ability, one learns this ability simply because play is all about “how to Learn” not what to Learn,  (Which we tend to overlook when we are studying Children and play).

Such Intelligences open up new ways of understanding ourselves and they blossom up in our human mind. They are spreading outward and growing like branches in a tree, from this tree  I call Play, the Meta Intelligence,  behind all these branches, together with these branches and changing these branches as they grow and mature. 

Just like the neurons in our brain we are Playing, and neurons when stimulated create new branches and link up in new ways to find the best  and most optimal way to create a” New Ability”  Our brain is designed to play, we are born with a Meta Intelligence. You could say we are playing automatically.  Even when we think we are not  -  our brain is still playing.

As children we are more conscious of  how important play is.  It is a human need to learn “How to Learn “  We are born with a Meta Intelligence, our brain which is a super computer a meta  computer  is designed to “Learn How to Learn”  Learning how to Learn, is without a doubt, an Intelligence worth having.  Loosing this Meta intelligence, is not good for the brain. 

Research into Altzeimers Disease would benefit from the importance of Play to stimulate the neurons to grow again. The more we play the more neurons we create.  It is possible to reverse the loss of neurons in the brain as we get older.

From the beginning  we use our brain, (or our brain is using us) to learn the ability to survive what is happening  and to develop abilities as quickly as possible  to help prolong our survival.  This raw survival instinct matures into a “mastering” of what is happening.  This  is an ongoing process throughout life.  Learning means mastering.  (I have learned to cycle, I now have mastered a bicycle). 

Maintaining the optimal level of the brain, in my opinion,  is clearly linked to maintaining, and consciously being open to play. To play in such a way as children do - with everything!   To play (open to  building and breaking down and rebuilding)with ideas, thoughts, feelings, language, images, systems,principles,models, senses, objects, knowledge, sciences, relationships, The happier we will be.  As Gregory Chaitin replied to my letter where I asked him to look at the possibility that Mathematics is playing.  He replied, the worlds top meta- mathematician , “Yes! I am also playing with Ideas.”

Any  society in the future which places Play as  a priority will be a prosperous  and contented society

This has been predicted by “future researchers “worldwide  it is known as the  5^th Society

What Odense Kommune is doing now- “Consciously” and what Denmark for years has been doing (supporting the value of play and children) already proves the point.

Denmark is one of the richest nations in the world with a surplus of 80 billion Kroner, and has been voted by Unesco every year for the past so many years as “the happiest nation on earth”.

The more conscious we become of play as the underlying key to enrich our lives, intellectually and emotionally,  the more we will enrich society and the world around us.

Play is a processor

  our brain is also a processor

Play is behind, (the secret of all forms of ) excellence 

Play is the Meta of all Models  of Learning

Play is Meta Cognition 

 All genius's are playing 

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"You learn more about a person in an hour of play

than in a year of conversation"

Plato

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"You judge a person's intelligence not by what they have learned, 

but by how they play with what they have learned."

James Findlay

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META Intelligence

PLAY

Multi Intelligences

                  verbal  visual  physical  musical logical introspective interpersonal natural 

”Play is behind all intelligences, together with all intelligences, and changes all intelligences.

                                                                                                                                     James Findlay 

Latest News...response from Howard Gardner, (father of the 7 intelligences) to James's project on  Play as a Meta intelligence..  

5th of February 2008

Thanks for your note and good luck with the project. 

Best wishes,

Howard Gardner
Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education

                                                                       

Is there the possibility that deep down in the innermost crevices of the human mind, there is a vestibule, the recipient and harbinger of a secret?  

“All that which is human; intelligence, learning, moving, growing and living, lies in the very essence, in the seed of human endeavour – the urge to play…and play, is the source of all that is human. 

play is more than an intelligence.  

Play is a meta intelligence

                                                                                       James 

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