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Explain from your perspective, what constitutes social intelligence.

It was originally thought that social intelligence was another classification of intelligence, just like Human Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence and so on. However, now Social Intelligence is being thought of as an aggregated measure of self and social awareness, evolved social beliefs and attitudes, and a capacity and appetite to manage complex social change. A person with a high social intelligence quotient is no better or worse than someone with a low social intelligence quotient, they just have different attitudes, hopes, interests and desires. Social intelligence includes cognition, convergent and divergent production, memory, and evaluation of behavioral contents. These contents mostly consist of nonverbal information about social interactions that allow conclusions about thoughts, desires, feelings, moods, emotions, intentions, and actions of other persons and of ourselves. Social Intelligence describes exclusively the human capacity to use very large brains to effectively navigate and negotiate complex social relationships and environments. Social intelligence is the richness of our qualitative life, rather than our quantitative intelligence, that truly makes humans what they are for example what its like to be a human being living at the center of the conscious present, surrounded by smells and tastes and feels and the sense of being an extraordinary metaphysical entity with properties which hardly seem to belong to the physical world.

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