Intelligence

Wisdom tell us what?

Re: Intelligence


I'm not so sure, Chris: look at Einstein. He had a hard time expressing what he understood (bec. he thought in concepts/pictures, rather than in words).

I'd say knowledge is the sum total of what we've learned (not just book-learning, but also experiential) and intelligence (not that I can exhaustively define that elusive and amazing faculty!) gives us the ability to process input and acquire knowledge.



Ah yes, wisdom! That arbiter of knowledge! That indispensable 3rd element in the Great Triad of our humanness!

baby steps
You have a point diagknowz but Einstein had to first state his theory completely and unequivocally and subsequently turned the science community of the time on its head. Yet, I believe relativity can be explained to the most uninitiated, albeit in baby steps.

Re: baby steps


Yah, Chris, I know he did. Quite a guy.

Clever pun there in "Between now and forever there's ALWAYS-TIME." But supposing time does really eventually come to an end (hooking up to your quote from last nite...)?

forever


Ha. Then forever will cease to exist since it epitomizes the concept of undefined duration.

Re: forever


Whoa there, pahdnah! (This is getting fun! A real brain-teaser!) If "forever" is the same as "eternity," then we're talking outside of time, no?

new topic?
Shall we open a new topic? Sounds interesting.

Re: new topic?


Er, well, it seems like this thread still has plenty of room to just continue right here, but I have no problem with starting another topic, if that would be preferable to you guys.

Though it's rather difficult to shake off more traditional views of time, it is no secret (if you have been following posts on this website and can read between the lines) that my current view of time revolves around the notion of uncountable "nows". It follows that "forever" and "eternity", in my opinion, do not reflect a duration but rather the causal convergence of all possible "nows" AND the causal divergence of all previous "nows" within the present "time zero" instant. As such, whether time has a beginning and no end OR an end and no beginning OR both a beginning and an end, it does not change my concept of "forever" or "eternity".

The phrase "Between now and forever, there is always time" is a sort of litmus test for the perception of time. That is to say, I believe that I am always in the present so, to me, there is no difference between now and forever. Consequently the time between now and forever, in my view, does not exist. Yet this same phrase may have a completely different import to someone else.

What about when you die, Chris?

I think it is the "now" from which we jump out of time completely. It is the instant of our eternity. I know this sounds strange.

Just a quote about intelligence/experience...
"An authority is someone who has guessed right more than once."
-Anonymous

~provided by: Khamron

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