I am struggling to think of anything that can be considered a solution and can be created without "priori" knowledge.
If you go by that then a lot of people (no offense) aren't intelligent. This includes many vastly successful or rich people.
So I disagree. There's a lot of ways to be intelligent. Not just the research and scientific type.
I think most people agree with this statement.
I probably agree that most people aren't engaged very often and even when they are they suck at being awesome but that really isn't the bar being mentioned here.
Right
> but that really isn't the bar being mentioned here.
Yes, the bar was "novel solutions WITHOUT priori knowledge"
So you've changed the definition. Please re-read what I disagree with and it's not just the novel part i.e. if I read it all from the Internet and copied it to be successful then that fails this definition.