Navigating with Intelligence, Creativity, Personality, Emotion, and Wisdom in the Space-Time Continuum

In this chapter, we address a context-dependent cross-construct discourse. We take into consideration six fundamental constructs, for which we provide compatible definitions: intelligence, creativity, personality, emotion, wisdom, and human navigation, a meta-level construct similar to meta-intelligence encompassing the control and coordination between constructs. All these constructs are dependent on context, which we propose to model through the metaphor of the Space-Time Continuum (STC). The STC is characterized by two dimensions: conceptual space S and available time span T, which in turn are described through the attributes of tightness and looseness. By crossing these two dimensions, four STC quadrants are obtained, corresponding to qualitatively distinct contexts: tight space-tight time (TS-TT), loose space-loose time (LS-LT), loose space-tight time (LS-TT), and tight space-loose time (TS-LT). Intelligence, creativity, personality, emotion, and wisdom are discussed in the four quadrants, as well as navigation for meta-control within and between quadrants. Real life eminent examples are described by mapping episodes from the lives of Leonardo da Vinci and Guglielmo Marconi on the four STC quadrants.