• Nature · Jul 1983

    Intelligence, guesswork, language.

    • H B Barlow.
    • Nature. 1983 Jul 21;304(5923):207-9.

    AbstractA satisfactory definition of intelligence has never been found, and as a result it means different things to different people. What it is may remain too complex for a succinct definition, but the theory and practice of information handling have clarified what it does for us: it enables us to guess better, and the discovery of unexpected orderliness is the chief means of doing this.

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