I see intelligence as the ability to learn and apply what has been learned. It is not the same as knowing facts, although the number of facts someone knows can contribute to their intelligence depending on how those facts are applied.
The paradox is that the more you know, the less you know; and this knowledge, applied is intelligence.
The paradox is that the more you know, the less you know; and this knowledge, applied is intelligence.
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I would rather know the scale of what I am dealing with anyway, even if it makes me feel less sure in the absolute understanding of all things. An interesting analogy is the observation of the universe. In about 500 years (in the scheme of at least 10 billion years) people have come to realize that they exist in a universe that is at least 10 billion light years across and have concluded then from the fact that their instruments can observe no more, that this is the complete universe. How sad, if one thing is obvious from this it is that science/pseudo-science always decrees that whatever is observable at the moment is all there is and they have the theory of how that works. I'm sorry, once bitten twice shy, and when you get bit 100 times and still don't recognize a snake, you should probably not walk in the forest. The steps of that realization was from a flat earth which was everything to a round earth as the center of the universe to a solar system to a sea of stars to .... so on and so on. I feel no great confidence that what is observable at the moment is the sum of the universe. I take joy in new understanding and the unknown gives me something to look forward to for a long time.
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