Intelligent understanding with contextual relevance.
There are, if we over simplify two ways of it:-
One that emanates from natural intelligence which can grasp
the pulse of an event, situation , say like presence of mind, street smartness
and so on that enable one to automatically or spontaneous resort to intelligent
understanding and easy adaptation to many situations;
The other one is through well informed, educated, knowledge
based logical decision making involving using appropriate domain specific
contextually relevant frames of reference.
For the latter to work, one needs a very high amount of
accumulated knowledge, memory, and well trained thought processes to choose the
correct option.
Both these paths can get to work their way when a hitherto
unknown crisis grips everyone, it unnerves and exposes the limitations of both
types of understanding more so, the second one.
This syndrome is known as 'the curse of Tiresias who says to
Oedipus, "to be wise when wisdom profits not'.
So, many may resort to accept or follow what is being told
to them because they submit to the view " when one has no power to change
the outcome", of what use is either knowledge or the processes of
any intelligent understanding.
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