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Showing posts with label Intelligence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Intelligence. Show all posts

Thursday, November 23, 2023

Humanity is still groping around to learn what is meant by ' intelligence'?

 

All hyperboles of fanatic proportion like excessive hype, exaggeration and claiming any single tech, medicine, herb, food, product, service, treatment, ideology etc and catch hold of some fancy terminologies that have an aura around them to convey them as if they are panacea for all human problems is the malady of modern times, a manipulative telesis of terminology. 

 

All hyperboles of fanatic proportion like excessive hype, exaggeration and claiming any single tech, medicine, herb, food, product, service, treatment, ideology etc and catch hold of some fancy terminologies that have an aura around them to convey them as if they are panacea for all human problems is the malady of modern times, a manipulative telesis of terminology. 

 

Humanity is still groping around to learn what is meant by ' intelligence'? as it has been conflated and confused to mean too many things starting from language proficiency to communication skills to street smartness to ability to use technology to invent new devices to improve on fundamental sciences to the ability to predict outcomes to 'the worst of all academic success' etc. 

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That's why real social psychologists and philosophers, in their wisdom, have decided to divide intelligence into multiple blocks to affect a better understanding like emotional intelligence, verbal intelligence, numerical intelligence, logical thinking abilities and so on. 

 

Therefore, anointing in their enthusiasm, to claim worldly greatness the term ' artificial intelligence' instead of ' new multitask technology' or ' Sigma seven internet capabilities ' etc. 

 

This is what happens when either a group of academics or politicians decide ( rather than actual innovators to do it) to hurriedly name a baby that is expected to be delivered. 

 

This is precisely what politicians and unconnected academics did to hijack and divert the health and medical implications of Covid-19 by coining a term ' Social distancing' ( -which is already an existing disease afflicting present day life-) instead of ' physical distancing.

  as it has been conflated and confused to mean too many things starting from language proficiency to communication skills to street smartness to ability to use technology to invent new devices to improve on fundamental sciences to the ability to predict outcomes to 'the worst of all academic success' etc. 

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That's why real social psychologists and philosophers, in their wisdom, have decided to divide intelligence into multiple blocks to affect a better understanding like emotional intelligence, verbal intelligence, numerical intelligence, logical thinking abilities and so on. 

 

Therefore, anointing in their enthusiasm, to claim worldly greatness the term ' artificial intelligence' instead of ' new multitask technology' or ' Sigma seven internet capabilities ' etc. 

 

This is what happens when either a group of academics or politicians decide ( rather than actual innovators to do it) to hurriedly name a baby that is expected to be delivered. 

 

This is precisely what politicians and unconnected academics did to hijack and divert the health and medical implications of Covid-19 by coining a term ' Social distancing' ( -which is already an existing disease afflicting present day life-) instead of ' physical distancing.

 

Sunday, August 27, 2023

Intellect and intelligence

 

The spirit of Advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything." - Swami Chinmayananda.

 

One may wonder what relevance the above quotation has when discussing​ about the topic intellect.

 

First, we need to know what we mean by intellect /intelligence.

 

That’s why even the most well-meaning and super intellectual giants if they fail to grasp reality as it is without any preconceived frames of references end up becoming frustrated /depressed and desperate because very often there are numerous things /events/persons that happen to deliver things which are beyond any intellectual analysis or appropriation.

 

https://contentwriteups.blogspot.com/2019/08/intellectual.html?m=0

 

 

The possibilities that exist between, beneath and beyond ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ are numerous for intellect to grab​ and give a name or label.

 

I remember vaguely reading a translation of a Zen poem titled ‘The logic of non-intellectual reality’ if I happen to somehow get it I shall share it [I think it was in one issue of

 

Thought provoking article and comments. 

 

http://nautil.us/issue/18/genius/super_intelligent-humans-are-coming

 

 

Not only the article but most of the comments too, prod one to put lots of things in the cauldron of the thinking and understanding and churn out and observe the reactions, relevance, and relationship of all those things.  

 

The following is the selection of a much-generalized version of some of the things that come to my mind which I feel one can drop inside  that cauldron and wait and watch the churning process and the outcome.

 

 

Thoughts, information and /or knowledge of /in various domains, intellect, conscious awareness, perception, tools of perception, logic, reason, evaluations, purpose of evaluations, tools of evaluations, understanding and application of understanding, social values, social interactions, individual and/or collective emotions/feelings, psychology, cultural contexts, ideological identities which influence that very thought process, imaginations, dreams, fantasies, scientifically established facts, intelligent questioning, attitudes, willingness and ability to understand and solve problems, bio-chemical components  of human beings and /or some other species as well, application of  highest physical laws etc.

 

INTELLIGENCE

 

Innate or inherent and 

Nurtured

Talent that

Evaluates

Links of

Lasting

Interconnectivity in 

General in

Everyone and everything that

Nicely

Churns up in and comes alive in

Evolutionary process of everything.


Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Intellectual, Intelligence, Intelligentsia

Intellectual, Intelligence, Intelligentsia 

I love words of English language and therefore I strongly object to author’s misuse of them.

Just because someone appropriates and assigns some labels misusing certain words with positive connotations for extreme forms of negative identity, repeatedly scripts such labels in desperation, it becomes all the more important that sane and sensible people must not reuse them.

If a moron is referred to as a master by someone that does not require everyone to address him as a master, more so sane people must refrain from doing so.


So please know the meaning of the word intellect, intellectual and intelligentsia through as many references as you want and for heaven’s sake do not use them for people like Ramchandra Guha in any context.