Intelligence Inversion

What causes intelligence?

Assuming most thinking and intellectual processes involve memory access, what element of accessing memories, theoretically causes a higher intelligence?

Perhaps comparing animals thinking process to humans, could be a good way to distinguish the difference in the process, which causes higher intelligence. As animals seem to access many fewer memories involved in any subconscious action they make, compared to a human which is taking into consideration any given decision, consciously analysing the variables and factors involved, the difference very well may be the means of remembering the effect of relevant factors involved in the decision.

This seems like a fairly rational cause of intelligence, since with more access to memories of factors involved in any circumstances requiring a decision or action (which should be… quite a few), the individual can determine more accurately the outcome of their circumstances including various optional routes of choice. With a more accurate estimate, the individual can realise an effective preference for outcome, and more effectively cause it. Effectively estimating outcomes, and causing them, is basically the description f effect of higher intelligence. It allows superior problem solving, including survival, and progressive development and accomplishment.

So, if intelligence is just accessing more memories, does that mean simply having a better memory makes you the most intelligent? I think not necessarily. When it comes to accessing memories to most effectively understand the outcome of circumstances, there is accuracy of recall of select memories, but there is also number of memories accessed, in order to more accurately comprehend the cause and effect of factors which are involved, and also comprehend a higher quantity of factors.

This seems to suggest, accessing a higher quantity of memories increases intelligence, but accessing relevant and effecting memories is important in order to accurately determine the cause and effect of factors which are involved in the decision.

As a bit of a complex example, if an individual was to comprehend a sub-set concept of the function and benefit of intelligence itself, they could theoretically turn the concept on itself, and apply the concept of intelligence more often and more accurately. Just as the concept of intelligence functions itself (by comprehending the interaction of factors and accessing relevant cause and effect), in this example, it’s accessing memories of this function of intelligence plus the factors of: memory access, and comprehending cause and effect, then apply the concept to general circumstances, by relating the relevance of factors (being memory access and cause and effect of factors, related and relevant to basically any circumstances and decision).

Unless this concept is too confusing and complex to comprehend, then I guess the cause and effect of these factors of factors just won't be related by relevance...