My first thought is that you'd probably find Flynn's book What Is Intelligence very interesting; I recommend it.

My second is that, especially given the mood on this board in the last couple of days (what is it, something in the water? on second thoughts, don't answer that), a thread trying to answer this old question here is... likely to produce more heat than light.

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