Why? Your characters can have better memory than you, since you are writing things down; this also applies to keeping in memory several steps of something that you personally can’t keep in memory. Your characters can take less time to make decisions than you do (since your fiction is not written in realtime). Your characters can notice things that you would miss if you saw them (because since you have defined their world, you already know what things are important to notice without having to notice them yourself). Your characters can have more skills than you have. How does this not ultimately add up to “your characters can be more intelligent than you”?
Of course, you could also cheat and have your character deduce something that he couldn’t possibly have really deduced, but that doesn’t mean all intelligent characters are examples of such cheating.
Damn I didn’t talk about running or sky-jumping, only what intelligence covers. I meant that your characters can’t have wider worldview and broader mindmap, and although consider WYSIATI (what-you-see-is-all-there-is) principle, applies also to all that you know.
Why? Your characters can have better memory than you, since you are writing things down; this also applies to keeping in memory several steps of something that you personally can’t keep in memory. Your characters can take less time to make decisions than you do (since your fiction is not written in realtime). Your characters can notice things that you would miss if you saw them (because since you have defined their world, you already know what things are important to notice without having to notice them yourself). Your characters can have more skills than you have. How does this not ultimately add up to “your characters can be more intelligent than you”?
Of course, you could also cheat and have your character deduce something that he couldn’t possibly have really deduced, but that doesn’t mean all intelligent characters are examples of such cheating.
Damn I didn’t talk about running or sky-jumping, only what intelligence covers. I meant that your characters can’t have wider worldview and broader mindmap, and although consider WYSIATI (what-you-see-is-all-there-is) principle, applies also to all that you know.