What is "higher intelligence?"

We continue to marvel at how quickly our nearly three year old grandaughter masters playing games on the computer. She can maneuver the mouse wherever it should be, left click at the right time, click and drag, etc. As we talked about it tonight, a couple of the things we mentioned were: 1) All kids have that innate intelligence, and computers provide a vehicle through which this intelligence can operate. 2) Kids, the younger the better, don't have enough learned experiences to close off the great sense of imagination and possibility.
Our artist friend, Bob, once told me that he likes teaching art to people who don't think they have any artistic aptitude. He likes them because they don't typically have any preconceived notions about anything and are very open to learning, imagination, and creativity. When he told me that I was inspired and impressed. Thanks, Bob!
I see the static consequences of not thinking this way every day. I see people who seem resistant and/or closed to possibility, new learning, and wide open creativity because everything is skewed by fixed thoughts created by what they already know.
There's a reason we only use a small percentage of our brain power. God left lots of room for imagination, creativity, and possibility based learning. The firm rules of today, when opened up and given air to breathe, expand into a million new ideas and incredible inventions of tomorrow. Every wonderful convenience of every type that we enjoy today came out of someone's wide open, no boundaries, thinking.
Of course there are things a three year old doesn't no that can inhibit their learning or put them in harms way, or some other less than ideal situation. Imagine what happens when you combine your knowledge with the wide open possibility thinking of a three year old. Could that be the difference between the great creative people of history and those of us who aren't so creative?
I remember an episode of Sponge Bob Square Pants in which Sponge Bob and Patrick used their "imaginations" and any thing was possible!
Try it and be amazed at what you're capable of doing, inspite of what others think about you! Be careful, though, because when you think wide openly, the ones who think they have the market on thinking cornered will get mad at you because they didn't think you were capable of leaving them in your dust! That's okay because if you move forward you will change the world in which they simply exist. And if they decide to try it because of you, then the world becomes an even better place! It becomes a big WIN-WIN for everybody!