Would you wish to take on the burden of intelligence?
Just a thought.
This is partly based off of three friends that I have that all have some similar traits and have expressly complained to me about things of this nature. They are all intelligent, and it was interesting in how they worked similarly. One of them told me he couldn't help but think of everything like a plan, to conquer a person and gain their affection, and he hated that. He also told me that he couldn't trust anyone for this reason, that if he plots and schemes like this then others might do the same to him. Another told me how she hated that she could see the flaws in all her friends, how she hated being smart enough to analyze everyone she met so that she couldn't help but think less of them. And another, perhaps the more arrogant one of my friends, doesn't always like that she is smart because she wants to blithely drift by in life, not having so much concerns. But instead she devotes herself to study and art, feeling like she needs to do it and not waste her intellect.PlasticandRage wrote:Unless I'm misunderstanding this, and you're asking if we'd like to actually be a computer, than you're leaving out something that's key. People don't work in black and white like that. Intelligence isn't necessarily synonymous with coldness, or superiority, or misunderstanding, or what have you. People also have the capacity for empathy and compassion. Things that prompt us to help people we feel don't have what we do. I think if someone was super intelligent, like the most intelligent person on the planet, they would also by definition have to be aware of those things.
If you're asking if I would want to be intelligent but at the price of a superiority complex then no. I'd rather be a moron.
I myself live in a small town. One of the friends that this is based off of lives in Miami, another friend that this is based off of lives in a small Australian city. And the third friend that this is based off of lives roughly one mile away from me, so in the same city as I.reim0027 wrote:Double edged sword, my friend. It would be great if you were a top scientist surrounded by like or similar minds. Discovering the secrets of the universe. But. for the regular person, it would be a bane.
I guess, I would rather be on the intelligent side, until you give more information about your living situation. I'd have to imagine that if I were so intelligent, I would be able to surround myself with like minds.
Trust me. You don't want any form of autism.Saturday-Saint wrote:Are you asking me if I want autism?
Well, two of the people that this is based off of have autism, as well as myself, so I understand if it could come across like that. But no, not really.Saturday-Saint wrote:Are you asking me if I want autism?
Sad but true.Animaaal wrote:Also, not all autistics are savants, common misconception.
The problem with this is we need intellectual diversity to preserve the range of subjects, art and other things that the world possesses. It is different kinds of intelligence and wiring that mean people thing about and produce different forms of art, music, literature (admittedly with a nurtured element to it) that allows us to have the diversity we desire. Arguably, if we all had complete intellectual similarity, we would be incapable of creating the same range of things we can do nowHachouma wrote:I'd search for a way to make everyone this smart, that way there would be no outcasts, on both sides. Competitions would be boring as hell though, you'd always see the same, perfect, performances over and over.
Why? Why would we not all have an infinite range of creativity?Serious_Much wrote:if we all had complete intellectual similarity, we would be incapable of creating the same range of things we can do now
Because as a result of being wired to have the same intelligence, so too we place upon ourselves the same limits of creativity. An infinite range of creativity is also impossible- people always get drawn into niches of interest, which is affected by our intelligence and how we perceive things. As a result if we all had identical intelligence, our niches and therefore creativity would be identical in what we create (within reason)Hachouma wrote:Why? Why would we not all have an infinite range of creativity?Serious_Much wrote:if we all had complete intellectual similarity, we would be incapable of creating the same range of things we can do now
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