Well, it's hard to say. First we would have to come to terms on the definitions of intelligence[...]
The answer should have been easy, Jon. Not hard.
All you need to know is the difference between abstract and concrete. A concept and an object.
I read your entire post, but you strayed from the original point.
Edahn isn't around, but I'll take a wild guess that he's as tired of people not knowing what a construct is as I am.
It's been going on in this forum for years:
"I don't have Ti."
"I don't have Te."
Constructs such as the congnitive processes are not like checking yourself for a genital herpes blister - I don't have it!
Can you touch Te? No. Can you touch a herpes blister? Yes.
That was Edahn's point - the cognitive processes are constructs. They are not objects in the physical world we can touch with our fingers.
To this day, it amazes me how many people still talk about them as if they're a carton of orange juice in the refrigerator waiting to be consumed.
*On a side note: if you want to define intelligence, there are enough of those old threads scattered around this forum to fill a litter box.