The Past, Present and Futures of Intelligence

This paper traces the past, present and futures of intelligence, with a particular focus upon integrated intelligence. The concept of intelligence is situated within a genealogy of the development of the western mechanistic worldview and its preferred rational ways of knowing. It establishes the relationship between this development and defining moments in dominant discourses within modern biological science, psychology and intelligence theory in the scientific era. Lastly three possible scenarios regarding the futures of intelligence discourse are posited.

Bio: Marcus Anthony is an Australian educator who has lived and worked throughout the greater China region: first in Taiwan, and then in Beijing and Sichuan provinces in mainland China before making his current home in Hong Kong. Marcus has also lived and worked in New Zealand , as well as his native country of Australia .

Currently Marcus is a PhD candidate at the University of the Sunshine Coast , QLD, Australia . His thesis topic is a comparison of integrated and mainstream depictions of intelligence, and their educational implications. His research interests include the futures of intelligence, Chinese history and the futures of China , and human consciousness evolution.