The other thing that separates Intelligence from Knowledge is opportunity and learning.

ie a native in remote Papua who has no exposure to anything other than his village and  5km surroundings could be as INTELLIGENT as the guy who has lived in a city and had  the opportunity to be educated and Learn lots of STUFF, but the two have totally different KNOWLEDGE BASES. The attitudes of the early explorers tell us that - the native would be considered an ignorant savage regardless of his Intelligence level. He may have absorbed the names and healing properties of every tree, plant, animal and insect in the forest - certainly a sign of Intelligence. Of course that opens up another can of worms - what is Knowledge and why is that native's Knowledge base any less vital or any less 'Knowledge' than the university graduate's knowledge of STUFF.

So, does it mean that a person of high intelligence KNOWS everything there is to know? Certainly not - without Intelligence one could not learn and retain Knowledge, any type of Knowledge, and without a Knowledge base to learn from Intelligence means nothing in itself. How did Knowledge come about? I would say experimentation had a lot to do with it.

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