On the diversity of intelligence Authors Konstantin Lidin Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics image/svg+xml https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7022-6871 Svetlana Golovnya Brest State A.S. Pushkin University image/svg+xml Downloads PDF (Russian) DOI: https://doi.org/10.51461/issn.2309-3072/86.2678 Published 2025-12-09 Issue No. 86 (2025): diversity Section refereed articles License Copyright (c) 2025 Константин Лидин, Светлана Головня This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. How to Cite On the diversity of intelligence. (2025). Project Baikal, 22(86). https://doi.org/10.51461/issn.2309-3072/86.2678 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Keywords: diversity, philosophy, architecture, history, entropy, information Abstract Intelligence as one of the ways of understanding the world can manifest itself in a wide range of diverse forms. Nevertheless, there is a steady tendency to reduce various forms of intelligence to a certain generalized, average value. Using the example of two periods of accelerated scientific and technological development (the sixties and eighties of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries), it is shown that the predominance of the trend towards uniformity gives progress an inhumane and pathogenic character. On the contrary, encouraging diversity in the manifestations of intelligence accelerates innovation and gives them more humane forms. References Ashby, W. R. (1959). An introduction to cybernetics. Moscow: Izdatelstvo inostrannoi literatury. Binet, A. (1905). Le problème des enfants anormaux. L’Année psychologique, 12, 498-499. Boltzmann, L. (1970). Statyi i rechi [Articles and speeches]. Moscow: Nauka. Burt, C. (2019). The Backward Child. London: Prabhat Prakashan. Burt, C. (1923). The Backward Child. London: London University Press. Christie, L. F. Jr. (2022). What is intelligence? The looming philosophical question behind artificial intelligence. Voprosy Filosofii, 10, 208–212. Graham, L. R. (1991). Science, philosophy, and human behavior in the Soviet Union. Moscow: Politizdat. Legg, Sh., & Hutter, M. (2007). A Collection of Definitions of Intelligence. Minds and Machines, 17(4), 391-444. Lidin, K. (2014). Me, the city. Project Baikal, 11(42), 50–55. https://doi.org/10.7480/ projectbaikal.42.787 Lyubov, E. B. (2023). The joys and tortures of Ludwig Boltzmann, or permanence of a chance. Part II: the battle on the road. Suicidology, 14(1), 84-100. Porter, B. (2011). Architecture and Empire: the case of the ‘Battle of the Styles’, 1855-61. British Scholar, 2(2), 181-196 McLaughlin, K., & Cherner, J. (2024, April 16). Tour Burj Al Babas, a Massive Abandoned Town of Disneyesque Castles. What was supposed to be a luxurious urban development for wealthy foreigners has become an eerie half-finished ghost town in Turkey. Architectural Digest. Retrieved October 11, 2025, from https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/burj-al-babas Sacks, O. (2025). The River of Consciousness. Moscow: AST.