From meta ability to meta Intelligence

A Question: Is Play (playful ) a way of being, and intelligence something else?

Being Logical is ”a way of being” and an intelligence. ( they are one and the same)
Being Musical is “a way of being” and an intelligence. ( they are one and the same)
Being Natural is “a way of being” and an intelligence. ( they are one and the same)
Being Playful is a way of being and an intelligence. (They are one and the same)

The key to any Intelligence is in having the “ability”. The intelligence called “Logical” is based on a combination of several abilities if not dozens. Which eventually develops, through a playing with various abilities, (combining various abilities) until they fuse together into a seemingly single unit which we call Logical intelligence.

Due to the works of Howard Gardner and others, the classical definition of Intelligence has now broken free from its restraining prison. And The definition of intelligence, has become more flexible more fluid and varied. The 8 or 9 Intelligences so far being defined is only the beginning, I predict it will be discovered that there are as many intelligences as there are “ways of being”, And the role of abilities (Human Universals) will play a major role, for all these multitudes of intelligences “are” based on “Having the ability” Play develops naturally this ability, one learns this ability simply because play is all about “how to Learn” not what to Learn, (Which we tend to overlook when we are studying Children and play).

Such Intelligences open up new ways of understanding ourselves and they blossom up in our human mind. They are spreading outward and growing like branches in a tree, from this tree I call Play, the Meta Intelligence, behind all these branches, together with these branches and changing these branches as they grow and mature.
Just like the neurons in our brain we are Playing, and neurons when stimulated create new branches and link up in new ways to find the best and most optimal way to create a” New Ability” Our brain is designed to play, we are born with a Meta Intelligence. You could say we are playing automatically. Even when we think we are not - our brain is still playing.

As children we are more conscious of how important play is. It is a human need to learn “How to Learn “ We are born with a Meta Intelligence, our brain which is a super computer a meta computer is designed to “Learn How to Learn” Learning how to Learn, is without a doubt, an Intelligence worth having. Loosing this Meta intelligence, is not good for the brain.
Research into Altzeimers Disease would benefit from the importance of Play to stimulate the neurons to grow again. The more we play the more neurons we create. It is possible to reverse the loss of neurons in the brain as we get older.

From the beginning we use our brain, (or our brain is using us) to learn the ability to survive what is happening and to develop abilities as quickly as possible to help prolong our survival. This raw survival instinct matures into a “mastering” of what is happening. This is an ongoing process throughout life. Learning means mastering. (I have learned to cycle, I now have mastered a bicycle).

Maintaining the optimal level of the brain, in my opinion, is clearly linked to maintaining, and consciously being open to play. To play in such a way as children do - with everything! To play (open to building and breaking down and rebuilding)with ideas, thoughts, feelings, language, images, systems,principles,models, senses, objects, knowledge, sciences, relationships, The happier we will be. As Gregory Chaitin replied to my letter where I asked him to look at the possibility that Mathematics is playing. He replied, the worlds top meta- mathematician , “Yes! I am also playing with Ideas.”

Any society in the future which places Play as a priority will be a prosperous and contented society
This has been predicted by “future researchers “worldwide it is known as the 5th Society

What Odense Council is doing now- “Consciously” and what Denmark for years has been doing (supporting the value of play and children) already proves the point.
Denmark is one of the richest nations in the world, and has been voted by Unesco every year for the past so many years as “the happiest nation on earth”.
The more conscious we become of play as the underlying key to enrich our lives, intellectually and emotionally, the more we will enrich society and the world around us.