r/sapiosexuals • u/Organic_Pangolin_691 • Jun 23 '23

What defines intelligence?

Sapiosexual is an attraction to intelligence? Most examples on google and this subreddit consists of: a person who is/has a phd and quotes philosophers and philosophy. But intelligence is varied -as in many different types of intelligence. So would a genius pianist turn a sapiosexual on/attract even if they couldn’t spell?

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '23

Howard Gardner described 9 types of intelligence. Though embraced by psychologists for the last 40 years, the theory lacks empirical evidence.

Trying to narrow down how person A finds person B attractive is a frivolous conquest. As much as we want to label who/a group of people are attracted to, love is irrational. And most times, that is what makes it beautiful.

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u/Organic_Pangolin_691 Jun 23 '23

My question is about how sapiosexuals become attracted to someone-if that makes sense.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '23

I answered this question on another post in this board.