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September 6, 2006 9:38 AM   Subscribe

What are some good image metaphors for "intelligence"? Lightbulbs, brains, computers, networks.... etc... looking for concepts, suggestions or stock images.

Just brainstorming for a project. Thanks!
posted by skrike to Media & Arts (14 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
A diploma or a mortarboard would work.
posted by sjuhawk31 at 9:47 AM on September 6, 2006


Picture of Einstein.
posted by alasdair at 9:48 AM on September 6, 2006


Owls.
posted by bink at 9:48 AM on September 6, 2006


Gears.
posted by ClaudiaCenter at 9:54 AM on September 6, 2006


Fractals.
posted by yogurtisgenocide at 9:56 AM on September 6, 2006




A cross-section of a head with a lot of stuff going on inside it. Gears, diagrams, flowchart, etc.
posted by jessicapierce at 10:26 AM on September 6, 2006


A book.
posted by ObscureReferenceMan at 10:42 AM on September 6, 2006


You might get some ideas from The Mind is a Metaphor - A Database of Eighteenth-Century Metaphors of Mind
posted by miniape at 11:14 AM on September 6, 2006


A blackboard filled with a complex mathematical problem.
posted by yeti at 11:15 AM on September 6, 2006


The Thinker
posted by popcassady at 11:22 AM on September 6, 2006


I second "fractals."
posted by Laugh_track at 11:28 AM on September 6, 2006


Before the advent of the computer, people thought of the brain as being like clockwork. A complicated set of gears and pulleys could still work.
posted by nebulawindphone at 5:35 PM on September 6, 2006


noodle(s)
Pam Anderson wearing a bun and hornrims
posted by rob511 at 12:53 AM on September 7, 2006


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