People who know my work in education think of me as the man who proposed seven,
eight, or nine different intelligences. When I write about intelligence, I am trying to be a
scientist. If we really understood human evolution in detail, we would see that the mind
and the brain are composed of a number of relatively autonomous computing systems.
For example, one system is for language, one for music, one for spatial cognition, etc. In
talking about Five Minds I am of course interested in psychology, but I am really
speaking from the perspective of policy. And in that sense, there are many other minds
that I could have talked about. As the policy maker/Tsar, these are the minds that I
would try to promote today and tomorrow