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Intellect the highest power on Earth? * 1
    #26390062 - 12/19/19 05:05 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Say it isn't true!  It does seem that there is no higher power of manipulation than one of intellect.  What people perceive they think is real, and intellect is very convincing and difficult to invalidate.

It's difficult for people to invalidate and devalue their feelings.  Which are operating behind a veil of thought and intellect.  It's difficult to transcend information because it's a very convincing reality.

Just stirring your intellect.


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: Morel Guy]
    #26390286 - 12/19/19 08:41 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

does the one who harnesses intellect control the world?


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #26390388 - 12/19/19 09:54 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Authority has created systems that do hold that grip on intellect.  Then media bombards constantly with an overriding intellectual tone.  A dumb enough intellectual tone to mute out any public debate.  Often they mute out public interest as well.

Authority will always assume you are stupid, and they are smart.


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: Morel Guy]
    #26390531 - 12/19/19 11:27 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

media as opiate controlled by an authority that is a spoilt child?



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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #26390547 - 12/19/19 11:35 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Suppose if there is acceptable beauty in the situation, it is there is no single hive mind.


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: Morel Guy]
    #26393518 - 12/21/19 05:34 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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it is there is no single hive mind.




what about Canada?


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: kitten6]
    #26393571 - 12/21/19 06:52 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

the drones here are gorgeous


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #26393647 - 12/21/19 07:54 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I want to fly a drone. :hissyfit:


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: Pinkerton]
    #26395549 - 12/22/19 12:28 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Intellect is power but not virtue. It can be incredibly destructive when coupled with resentment, erroneous assumptions and opinions. There is a range of intelligence that takes the form of worldly power but once you exceed this it can start to work against someone, socially. Less people relate to or understand you.


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: Morel Guy]
    #26395675 - 12/22/19 02:05 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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Say it isn't true!  It does seem that there is no higher power of manipulation than one of intellect.  What people perceive they think is real, and intellect is very convincing and difficult to invalidate.

It's difficult for people to invalidate and devalue their feelings.  Which are operating behind a veil of thought and intellect.  It's difficult to transcend information because it's a very convincing reality.

Just stirring your intellect.



Intellect is not the highest power on earth.
Then again, you already knew that.
Knowledge is above intellect and a number of things above that.

These basics are either understood by an individual or they suffer the painful life lesson. A perfect (negative) case but functional example whereby knowledge is greater than intellect : Using knowledge to turn a lessor person's intellect against themselves. The reverse isn't true.

Why ask this question OP? This seems like a '101' inquiry. I don't follow on with the rest of the commentary. Life isn't fair and is a subjective experience... Lessor minds make empires of their subjective experiences and build fortresses around it. Intellect has little to do with this nor can deconstruct it... The fortress isn't built by intellect or knowledge.. Its built by lessor facilities.


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: r00tcmplx]
    #26395743 - 12/22/19 02:47 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Definition of intellect

1a : the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge
b : the capacity for rational or intelligent thought especially when highly developed
2 : a person with great intellectual powers


1a, the power of knowing.


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: Morel Guy] * 3
    #26396130 - 12/22/19 06:38 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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Definition of intellect

1a : the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge
b : the capacity for rational or intelligent thought especially when highly developed
2 : a person with great intellectual powers



1a, the power of knowing.




1a : Power / capacity
Power can be turned against you without knowledge.
It's a directionless weapon.
b  : capacity

Indeed I am well aware of the definition of the word and spoke with it in mind. Intellect is literally nothing much less the highest power on earth. Only a person with knowledge grasps this principle immediately which is why intellect can easily be turned against itself? what ultimate power exists in that?

A bullet has 'power'.
But a missile is more powerful.
Even more powerful, a missle with anti-tampering devices so that it doesn't necessarily explode and destroy itself. Even more practical, what power does a bullet/missile have if the weapon maker explodes it in the in the final stage of assembly before it ever has a chance to be realized?

Power doesn't exist in a vacuum. It only exists relative to the thing it seeks to act on/with/against.

People want to play w/ an abstract word for the sake of playing with it vs understanding/garnering knowledge. This is the plight of a philosopher. Off in lofty abstractions of the mind with little grounding in reality.. so the capacity/'intellect' is never realized and is instead turned against the wielder in that it occupies their mind to useless ends. 'Power and capacity' but no constructive outlet.

It is indeed why intellect on its own is a weak power and nowhere near the highest power on earth for it often undoes the practitioner most of all.

Intellect... highest power on earth
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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: r00tcmplx]
    #26397025 - 12/23/19 09:00 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

You would know nothing without intellect.

Does a vegetable know anything?

Maybe you think you know a lot and lack intellect to not see what you do not know.


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: r00tcmplx]
    #26397179 - 12/23/19 10:47 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Isn't this what gives intellect immense power? You can direct it to any subject at will, for any period of time. Intellect doesn't need to be designed for a specific purpose. It is multifaceted and dynamic. Not to mention, in control of the knower.

I think that the people here are asking valid questions in an attempt to further discussion - not simply engaging in "lofty abstractions" for the sake of "play".

Morel Guy said it best:
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You would know nothing without intellect.

Maybe you think you know a lot and lack intellect to not see what you do not know.




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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: r00tcmplx]
    #26397202 - 12/23/19 11:00 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

A autistic savant can know a huge amount of information.  Yet lack any intellect to discern and make any use of it.

A book can know a lot, yet have zero intellect.

Without intellect one would know less to nothing.  Knowledge and intellect can be on par and usually is.

Every idiot knows something.  Every idiot online knows everything.

Wisdom is something a little more abstract.  Part knowledge, part intellect, part intuition.


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: Morel Guy]
    #26397244 - 12/23/19 11:23 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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You would know nothing without intellect.

Does a vegetable know anything?

Maybe you think you know a lot and lack intellect to not see what you do not know.



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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: Morel Guy]
    #26397421 - 12/23/19 01:01 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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Definition of intellect

1a : the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge
b : the capacity for rational or intelligent thought especially when highly developed
2 : a person with great intellectual powers




ok, so intellect is entirely dependent on the words 'rational' and 'intelligent' (so we need that word defined)
and what then are 'intellectual powers' in this scheme of definitions:

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Definition of rational

(Entry 1 of 2)
1a : having reason or understanding
b : relating to, based on, or agreeable to reason : reasonable a rational explanation rational behavior



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intelligent adjective

in·​tel·​li·​gent | \ in-ˈte-lə-jənt
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Definition of intelligent

1a : having or indicating a high or satisfactory degree of intelligence and mental capacity
b : revealing or reflecting good judgment or sound thought : skillful
2a : possessing intelligence
b : guided or directed by intellect : rational
3a : guided or controlled by a computer especially : smart sense 7c — compare dumb sense 7




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intellectual adjective

in·​tel·​lec·​tu·​al | \ ˌin-tə-ˈlek-chə-wəl
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Definition of intellectual

(Entry 1 of 2)
1a : of or relating to the intellect or its use
b : developed or chiefly guided by the intellect rather than by emotion or experience : rational
c : requiring use of the intellect intellectual games
2a : given to study, reflection, and speculation
b : engaged in activity requiring the creative use of the intellect intellectual playwrights




so besides being not dumb, having good judgement, and or pursuing arts and letters or science or other bookish interests, these words lean on each other for meaning.

should we say "not being dumb and having good judgement is the highest power on earth"?


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #26397460 - 12/23/19 01:21 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Essentially you are correct.

Although this reminded me that perhaps stupidity is the most powerful.  Stupidity cannot be fixed and intellect must rely on the commonality of stupidity.  History is often written by very stupid events.  Politics and media thrive on less than evolved ideas.  There's a commonality of stupidity.  Stupidity is guarded in a different way than intellect.


It's also interesting that the subconscious see's more than the conscious mind.  They say primates notice and remember the locations and identity of numbers and symbols flashed on a screen.  Where a human over thinks it and does not know.

Sorta what is different about some autism cases.

My point of this thread was not stated.  I intended a discussion revolving around how intellect is manipulated.  That information rules supreme, that those with the power to control intellect stand high ground.  Even if that intellect is unreasonable, inhumane or immoral, perhaps even "stupid".


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: Morel Guy] * 1
    #26397607 - 12/23/19 02:17 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

a metaphysics of IQ [or intelligence] should be established.


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: akira_akuma] * 1
    #26397631 - 12/23/19 02:29 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

It would come with a lot of emotional control.


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: Morel Guy]
    #26397862 - 12/23/19 04:19 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

you know what interests me is 'what emotional states lead to what things, and what things lead to emotional states' and then 'what is the origin of our troubles'. i'd have to imagine this couldn't be summed up for everyone, all at once, thru abduction- no, there is too much individuality for that.

but for me, personally...this is of interest. i feel like many people get a bum-wrap. not everyone...some people really are morbidly fucked up in this world...but most people get a bum-wrap.


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: akira_akuma] * 1
    #26397893 - 12/23/19 04:37 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Religion would say being away from the supreme consciousness, God or whatever reference.  Being our cause of suffering.

Due to attachments.

Pretty much the majority of the brain is simple attachments.  Neurons attached to each-other.  A delusion perhaps would be thinking that outside circumstances cause our inner experience.  When in my opinion they do complicate to some extent if not greatly.

Not many people would be happy starving in a prison cell.  Even though ancient Buddhist and Christian searchers would hide in caves as if it were a prison.


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: Morel Guy]
    #26397990 - 12/23/19 05:31 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

> Has no working definition of words
> Existing words are nothing but convoluted abstractions
> Doesn't try to establish definitions
> Ignores Redgreenvibes trying to establish a basis for intelligent convo
> Wants to talk metaphysics having no foundation
> Muh feels.. How do feels come about?
> Muh theories about feels


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: r00tcmplx]
    #26398067 - 12/23/19 06:13 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

That does not communicate a darn thing at all.

Other than an attitude.

Good luck with your puppet account.


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: Morel Guy]
    #26398088 - 12/23/19 06:26 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

hahahaha

oh man....lol


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #26398126 - 12/23/19 07:02 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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redgreenvines said:
Quote:

Morel Guy said:
Definition of intellect

1a : the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge
b : the capacity for rational or intelligent thought especially when highly developed
2 : a person with great intellectual powers




ok, so intellect is entirely dependent on the words 'rational' and 'intelligent' (so we need that word defined)
and what then are 'intellectual powers' in this scheme of definitions:

Quote:

Definition of rational

(Entry 1 of 2)
1a : having reason or understanding
b : relating to, based on, or agreeable to reason : reasonable a rational explanation rational behavior



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intelligent adjective

in·​tel·​li·​gent | \ in-ˈte-lə-jənt
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Definition of intelligent

1a : having or indicating a high or satisfactory degree of intelligence and mental capacity
b : revealing or reflecting good judgment or sound thought : skillful
2a : possessing intelligence
b : guided or directed by intellect : rational
3a : guided or controlled by a computer especially : smart sense 7c — compare dumb sense 7




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intellectual adjective

in·​tel·​lec·​tu·​al | \ ˌin-tə-ˈlek-chə-wəl
, -chəl, -shwəl, -chü(-ə)l \
Definition of intellectual

(Entry 1 of 2)
1a : of or relating to the intellect or its use
b : developed or chiefly guided by the intellect rather than by emotion or experience : rational
c : requiring use of the intellect intellectual games
2a : given to study, reflection, and speculation
b : engaged in activity requiring the creative use of the intellect intellectual playwrights




so besides being not dumb, having good judgement, and or pursuing arts and letters or science or other bookish interests, these words lean on each other for meaning.

should we say "not being dumb and having good judgement is the highest power on earth"?




Great post. You answered OP and closed out the thread.
The discussion is either about what the word 'intellect' and neighboring words mean or there's no discussion at all. They are indeed ill-defined abstractions. Intellect would tell you this. Knowledge/wisdom would tell you to spend time defining them before attempting to have an 'intelligent' conversation.


What is the highest power on earth? Who knows. Will you arrive at an answer by just throwing around ill defined terms? Most certainly not. What then is the intent? Especially when a person intelligently brings form/foundation to the discussion.

Information->Intelligence->;knowledge->wisdom
Philosophy 101. Intellect is clearly not considered, by long standing norms of philosophy to be the highest power. So, I wonder what in the world is the nature of this inquiry. I wonder if I actually start a metaphysical thread instead of the oft randomness of 1st principles/way out there thoughts if it will get any traction. Tried a couple of times and no bites. Why do people enjoy playing with ill-defined abstractions that ultimately won't lead to higher understanding? Is it just entertainment?


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: r00tcmplx]
    #26398142 - 12/23/19 07:14 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Metaphyiscal may be entirely make belief.  The idea that the brain functions on some coomonly unseen unkown physical level.

If that is the case it is realizing your imagination creates reality.  Which for most people their imagination has not transcended intellect.

As you can see in the first post there is some rejection to the idea that intellect is the highest power.  But the world must deal with it's intellect because nobody agrees on unseen metaphysical realities.  In fact those usually cause large wars.  Because people cannot transcend their intellect very easily and remain living.

It's very rare and not accepted by those that feel intellect is more power.


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: r00tcmplx]
    #26398233 - 12/23/19 08:14 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

:takingnotes:

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What is the highest power on earth? Who knows. Will you arrive at an answer by just throwing around ill defined terms? Most certainly not. What then is the intent? Especially when a person intelligently brings form/foundation to the discussion.

Information->Intelligence->knowledge->wisdom





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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: Morel Guy]
    #26398259 - 12/23/19 08:29 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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Metaphyiscal may be entirely make belief.  The idea that the brain functions on some coomonly unseen unkown physical level.




So this is this era's last frontier huh? The human brain and how it functions... This is where the next 'kick will come from to spur humanity and all disciplines forward... The roadblock to the next layer of metaphysics...

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If that is the case it is realizing your imagination creates reality.  Which for most people their imagination has not transcended intellect.




Correct. Most people are unaware to a level/degree that affords them the capability to 'integrate' across increasing layers of awareness especially for those that are inner layers. Agreeing upon a minimal framework :
Information->Intelligence->;knowledge->wisdom
Without subscribing to any rubber stamped definitions, I believe you, having the awareness to explain the above can see a rough set of 'segmentations' along the above hierarchy. Correct? A lot of people indeed don't have knowledge/wisdom which is the broad transcendent awareness of how the 'tool' of intellect can be applied. But you seemingly do in that you can define the 'awareness' factor. So, along this you see that intellect is not the highest power surely. And even in intellect there are different levels most closely relating to levels of book smarts.. Understanding/awareness as you state Morel of that intellect is where knowledge comes in.. Wisdom tempers knowledge. Not an original thought of mine. I distinctly remember this being taught to me in general Philosophy course work.

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As you can see in the first post there is some rejection to the idea that intellect is the highest power.  But the world must deal with it's intellect because nobody agrees on unseen metaphysical realities.




I was pushy with you because I felt you already knew the answer, if so, why post the question? especially if it was so basic. I'd instead kindly request that in the future that you just state that you'd like to discuss idea (x) and let it go from there... You don't need to post an obvious 'flash point statement' that people know to be false. It will attract the wrong energy. As for the world, listen.. This world is full of idiots/idiocy. I don't expect ever a sane intelligent person to try to reason/restrict their thinking within the confines of the world. As far as the topic and discussion you prompted, sure you are correct.. The world primarily centers 'outwardly' on the concept of 'intellect'. Knowledge/wisdom are held as metaphysical unknowns but people generally know them to be behind the scenes 'forces' that put intellect to work.. Even an idiot with intellect has knowledge/wisdom.. Just not a lot of it.
As such, 'intellect' is not a higher power even on earth.. Necessarily, there are two levels above it that act on it.

Now, as a point of agreement, if we get down to the clown idiot world.. Well then yes, a person with a lot of intellect and a little knowledge/wisdom is valued above a person with lets say 80% of the intellect but 500% more knowledge and wisdom. Sure. In some cases even a person with higher intellect and knowledge/wisdom are looked upon as lessor than a person of lower intellect/knowledge/wisdom because its that stubborn knowledge/wisdom that will tempers the intellect and restricts it from being utilized for instance to harm people broadly/etc.

Yes, I think here we are along the same thought process. I may just express some frustration because I figure on a site like this and in this subsection you can skip the teasers and get to this kind of meat off the top.

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In fact those usually cause large wars.  Because people cannot transcend their intellect very easily and remain living.

It's very rare and not accepted by those that feel intellect is more power.



So, now that you have detailed it fully. I completely agree. There is a point of distinguishment I'd like to make :
Information->Intelligence->;knowledge->wisdom
Hierarchy is pretty agreed upon.. Intelligence is a lower power and is tempered by knowledge/wisdom.

However, as you state, yes.. in the 'practical' world...
Intellect is prized far more than knowledge/wisdom.


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: static214]
    #26398268 - 12/23/19 08:33 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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What is the highest power on earth? Who knows. Will you arrive at an answer by just throwing around ill defined terms? Most certainly not. What then is the intent? Especially when a person intelligently brings form/foundation to the discussion.

Information->Intelligence->knowledge->wisdom





Consider me told.




I'm in the philosophy section of the site am I not?
Do I really have to google the diagram from 'Philosophy 101' that states this very thing? Lets have a go at it :








The deeper discussion, given that everyone here is at least fluent in Philosophy 101 is why this is the case in the world.. However, I was completely unaware that this question had to be asked..I thought it was commonly agreed to.


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    #26398582 - 12/24/19 03:56 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I wanted to hear or read discussion.  It's one thing that can be capable with the internet.

If it was coomonly agreed to then why the initial disparange?

I believe in higher power(s).  When one awakens to their subconscious subtle reality becomes perceived.  Mystics have great wisdom and intellect, a grand scope of vision.  Suppose it is frustrating that our leaders fail in that regard.  That the systems are not understanding how the mind/brain/body works.  Given it is cmplicated they recognize a lot of good from troubling.

I just think that our information world gets the best out of people and exhausts their will power.  Like your posts above, they don't speak subconsciously.  Speaking to the subconscious is a great power, the conscious mind does not know it's place.


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    #26398606 - 12/24/19 04:33 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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I wanted to hear or read discussion.  It's one thing that can be capable with the internet.

If it was coomonly agreed to then why the initial disparange?





Because I somewhat and no offense recall this was taught to me in AP Psych in highschool... I felt there had to be more to it than just this so I attempted to abruptly move the discussion to a higher potential. This is after-all just information/data at this point. The human mind grasps it easily at this evolved stage. I'd figure, given the context of this site and subjection, everyone's on the same basic page for such common knowledge.

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I believe in higher power(s).  When one awakens to their subconscious subtle reality becomes perceived.  Mystics have great wisdom and intellect, a grand scope of vision. 




True enough.

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Suppose it is frustrating that our leaders fail in that regard.  That the systems are not understanding how the mind/brain/body works.  Given it is cmplicated they recognize a lot of good from troubling.




The world is the world. Its the same its always been.
The universe and various scales reflect this same reality.
'Free will' allows a person to choose their path. Not everyone chooses to suffer attempts towards a 'higher' path when the lower one is heavily traversed, easier, and outcomes straight forward. Not everyone is a pioneer/wanderer. Some enjoy staying closer to the tribe. And tribes/societies exist and are structured around this principle of a foundation/safety net for the 'masses'. I have no qualms with that especially in the west as one has a broad set of freedoms to choose as they see fit.

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I just think that our information world gets the best out of people and exhausts their will power.




People make their own choices for their own reasons. At the end of the day there you are. I could stretch my mind in a billion pieces trying to understand the near random and infinite range of possibilities for a person's life and why they choose accordingly or I can focus my mind on a higher realization/understanding. I spent a good deal of my life doing the former and am well versed enough to have come to a cut-off point. I am thankful not upset of the huge amount of time I spent with this thinking as it ultimately afforded me the confidence to resign from such troubled thoughts.

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Like your posts above, they don't speak subconsciously.  Speaking to the subconscious is a great power, the conscious mind does not know it's place.




Maybe they'll do better next time...
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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: Morel Guy]
    #26400025 - 12/25/19 04:09 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Intellect has made us burn bright and strong, if not the brightest and strongest on planet earth.

But that is not true intellect, because true intellect would favor longevity and preservation. True intellect is the meditative lifestyle the path of Buddha.

We are burning brighter and stronger than ever before, how long do you think we can keep up. Do you think earth will outlive us or will we outlive earth and begin destruction of other planets.


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    #26400032 - 12/25/19 04:16 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

We are not going far anytime soon.  The super-mundane is capable of more relating to the cosmos and life in it than crude science.  Every time science has a super mundane idea, the exploit the war of it.

There's been govt psychic projevts to communicate with alies, or what else.  Finding our own higher intelligence.  That's got a lot to do with the upper crust religion had many achieve similar success.  Transcending the animal mind, our default mode.  Default mode is a way of coming down.


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    #26401863 - 12/26/19 04:38 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Intellect is powerful and most dull minds can be improved with learning, memorization, and training, but most animals are capable of these feats. The culture now is one of stupidity, ignorance, closed mindedness, comfort, and entertainment, which inhibits all critical thinking skills and makes it impossible for most to perceive reality as it really is, also most believe they are the only real objects and everything/everyone else are here for their entertainment. For real power of the mind one must have wisdom and knowledge, wisdom includes all good traits like understanding, empathy, knowing your place in the world and being able to see reality for what it is. No one can know everything, but my goal in life is to continue learning till my last breath, also what is learned must be of value, true value not sport stats, info about dumb celebrities, or any other frivolous kind of knowledge. Truth is about 1% of the population have powerful minds, wisdom, and let me say they are miserable, because of what they are surrounded by in this world. Then you have the 90%-99%, which I mean the 9% at the top of the population, which think they are super smart and maybe so in comparison to most of the population, but that's not the case it's more likely they are just the smartest idiots, because they possess little wisdom, don't learn because they already think they know everything, love being praised for how smart they are told they are, and have little true grasp of reality. I will not speak about the bottom 90%, no need. All these things could be different with proper education (not existing currently), but would require the whole society to participate and that requires to much effort and people would have to face their problems and reality, which will not happen. As the Masters say about the ignorant masses, let them eat cake. If anyone were interested in wisdom I would advise them to start with Seneca the younger, Marcus Aurelius, and then expand to other philosophers. Never stop learning, care about others and have empathy (empathy-being able to put yourself into someone else's situation and see/think like said person), this is the start of real power and can be cultivated/strengthened throughout life. The original question is about how powerful intellect is, my answer is intellect alone is a gun with no bullet, target, or person operating it, intellect is a small piece of the power that the mind can be with the right cultivation. Peace and love to all


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: Stoic]
    #26401873 - 12/26/19 04:48 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Critical thinking needs a break.  Humans over think everything.

We have delusions to guide us.


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    #26401877 - 12/26/19 04:52 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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Intellect is powerful and most dull minds can be improved with learning, memorization, and training, but most animals are capable of these feats. The culture now is one of stupidity, ignorance, closed mindedness, comfort, and entertainment, which inhibits all critical thinking skills and makes it impossible for most to perceive reality as it really is, also most believe they are the only real objects and everything/everyone else are here for their entertainment. For real power of the mind one must have wisdom and knowledge, wisdom includes all good traits like understanding, empathy, knowing your place in the world and being able to see reality for what it is. No one can know everything, but my goal in life is to continue learning till my last breath, also what is learned must be of value, true value not sport stats, info about dumb celebrities, or any other frivolous kind of knowledge. Truth is about 1% of the population have powerful minds, wisdom, and let me say they are miserable, because of what they are surrounded by in this world. Then you have the 90%-99%, which I mean the 9% at the top of the population, which think they are super smart and maybe so in comparison to most of the population, but that's not the case it's more likely they are just the smartest idiots, because they possess little wisdom, don't learn because they already think they know everything, love being praised for how smart they are told they are, and have little true grasp of reality. I will not speak about the bottom 90%, no need. All these things could be different with proper education (not existing currently), but would require the whole society to participate and that requires to much effort and people would have to face their problems and reality, which will not happen. As the Masters say about the ignorant masses, let them eat cake. If anyone were interested in wisdom I would advise them to start with Seneca the younger, Marcus Aurelius, and then expand to other philosophers. Never stop learning, care about others and have empathy (empathy-being able to put yourself into someone else's situation and see/think like said person), this is the start of real power and can be cultivated/strengthened throughout life. The original question is about how powerful intellect is, my answer is intellect alone is a gun with no bullet, target, or person operating it, intellect is a small piece of the power that the mind can be with the right cultivation. Peace and love to all




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    #26401882 - 12/26/19 04:58 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I love the "have delusions to guide" lol


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    #26401898 - 12/26/19 05:28 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

They say we stop learning.  The path to it all.


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: Morel Guy]
    #26411929 - 01/02/20 06:09 AM (4 years, 27 days ago)

Ken Ham and most pollies/news media hosts etc. got this shit down pat.

Deflect and obfuscate, projection, cliches and platitudes are all a part of the recipe.


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    #26413598 - 01/03/20 02:59 AM (4 years, 26 days ago)

P.S. In my experience of delusion I found that it was misguided and that in realising I had been suffering from delirium I was able to grow again and recover effectively and more mentally sturdy within a short period of time.


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: sudly]
    #26413726 - 01/03/20 06:39 AM (4 years, 26 days ago)

are not all mental models of the universe essentially the same as delusions?

how could one not be working within the context of one's model of the universe if our very sense of vision is entirely constructed in the brain using fragmentary visual signals over time.


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    #26414514 - 01/03/20 02:45 PM (4 years, 26 days ago)

"Intellect the highest power"
have you looked at the state of the world lately?
and you take this proposition seriously?
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    #26414540 - 01/03/20 03:01 PM (4 years, 26 days ago)

Entropy is the highest power, nothing escaspes.


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    #26422389 - 01/08/20 05:50 AM (4 years, 21 days ago)

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are not all mental models of the universe essentially the same as delusions?

how could one not be working within the context of one's model of the universe if our very sense of vision is entirely constructed in the brain using fragmentary visual signals over time.




No, why would you say that?

Mental models may be built upon a platform of hallucinations, but the ideas and concepts that are capable of being relayed, are anything but delusion. Like blue prints for a building.


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: sudly]
    #26422408 - 01/08/20 06:33 AM (4 years, 21 days ago)

blueprints begin with orthogonal tension and accuracy, but the mental contents that enable blue prints are made up of neural activity - same thing whether classified as delusional or inspired.

even if you can put the model down onto paper (like architectural plans) or render to working computer code, the model will have little to distinguish itself from delusion, unless it really works as intended. take - for instance - the gerrymandered voting districts, rendered to paper it still looks like sanctioned madness.


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    #26422616 - 01/08/20 09:53 AM (4 years, 21 days ago)

Not true. Consciousness is merely the manifestation of the intellect, which in itself is a function of the brain.


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    #26422812 - 01/08/20 11:31 AM (4 years, 21 days ago)

I agree with that, sideroxylon, which was the not true part (consciousness is the product of brain (in (healthy) body))?


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    #26422969 - 01/08/20 01:27 PM (4 years, 21 days ago)

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blueprints begin with orthogonal tension and accuracy, but the mental contents that enable blue prints are made up of neural activity - same thing whether classified as delusional or inspired.

even if you can put the model down onto paper (like architectural plans) or render to working computer code, the model will have little to distinguish itself from delusion, unless it really works as intended. take - for instance - the gerrymandered voting districts, rendered to paper it still looks like sanctioned madness.




"even if you can ... render... the model will have little to distinguish itself from delusion, unless it really works as intended."

Exactly the test (seems to me), to be whether something works, not how it originated. One might say nature makes delusions or illusions in the case of mirages or gravity bending light. And that a man made illusion, like a big stone statue (of a god that does not exist), but that when it falls over it kills someone, does have a certain reality.
On a large scale we could say that what humans think of as the glories of civilization is delusional, yet the reality is quite real in terms of pollution and other horrible effects.


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    #26423110 - 01/08/20 02:54 PM (4 years, 21 days ago)

madness is what it seems to be.


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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: sudly]
    #26423935 - 01/09/20 03:36 AM (4 years, 20 days ago)

What distinguishes a magician from a ward patient.

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If hallucination is a kind of uncontrolled perception then perception right here and now as it is is a kind of hallucination but a controlled hallucination in which the brains predictions are being rained in by sensory information from the world.

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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: sideroxylon]
    #26423956 - 01/09/20 04:11 AM (4 years, 20 days ago)

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Not true. Consciousness is merely the manifestation of the intellect, which in itself is a function of the brain.




Ah, good old causal determinism-as-science replacing rational thinking, per usual.

Physics and all human "knowledge" is a description of reality, not a recipe for ontological truth.


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I agree with that, sideroxylon, which was the not true part (consciousness is the product of brain (in (healthy) body))?




Our senses supply with information, but what about the information of the information relayed by the senses? Well, the latter is the picture of life which we perceive as reality. Where else can it occur but the brain? Whether a body is healthy or not is inconsequential to the argument because a mad man possesses consciousness albeit disrupted.


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Physics and all human "knowledge" is a description of reality, not a recipe for ontological truth.




If one wants to manufacture ontological truth as if it is made in a kitchen, then might I suggest to cease the use of language to him.


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    #26425847 - 01/10/20 02:36 AM (4 years, 19 days ago)

Ontological truth got man to the moon.

# We can perceive with our hearts too, even kidneys have a sense.


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I agree with that, sideroxylon, which was the not true part (consciousness is the product of brain (in (healthy) body))?




Our senses supply with information, but what about the information of the information relayed by the senses? Well, the latter is the picture of life which we perceive as reality. Where else can it occur but the brain? Whether a body is healthy or not is inconsequential to the argument because a mad man possesses consciousness albeit disrupted.




dead body does not support brain or consciousness
some illnesses cause temporary loss of consciousness.


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    #26444358 - 01/21/20 06:39 AM (4 years, 8 days ago)

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Say it isn't true!  It does seem that there is no higher power of manipulation than one of intellect.  What people perceive they think is real, and intellect is very convincing and difficult to invalidate.






The Supreme Truth-Consciousness:

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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #26444437 - 01/21/20 08:21 AM (4 years, 8 days ago)

Do the laws of physics apply to intellect?

It can neither be created nor destroyed.


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    #26445053 - 01/21/20 07:31 PM (4 years, 8 days ago)

Having a huge Army liberally sprinkled with spec ops troops, a massive Navy, Air Force, and a nuclear arsenal with plenty of human cannon fodder to throw at your enemies is the highest power on Earth...no real intellect required.


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    #26445540 - 01/22/20 02:16 AM (4 years, 7 days ago)

If one thinks the intellect is centered in the head
and emotions in the gut
then intellect is literally the highest power in man

But that doesn't mean it runs the show

And actually the brain has a limbic (emotional, etc. system) in it, as well as hormones; so the distinction between intellect and emotion/motivation, is an artificial one created by language.

https://bigthink.com/experts-corner/decisions-are-emotional-not-logical-the-neuroscience-behind-decision-making.

from the article:

"A few years ago, neuroscientist Antonio Damasio made a groundbreaking discovery. He studied people with damage in the part of the brain where emotions are generated. He found that they seemed normal, except that they were not able to feel emotions. But they all had something peculiar in common: they couldn't make decisions. They could describe what they should be doing in logical terms, yet they found it very difficult to make even simple decisions, such as what to eat. "


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    #26445609 - 01/22/20 04:31 AM (4 years, 7 days ago)

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Do the laws of physics apply to intellect?

It can neither be created nor destroyed.




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Re: Intellect the highest power on Earth? [Re: sudly]
    #26445673 - 01/22/20 06:00 AM (4 years, 7 days ago)

if weapons are evidence of power (power to destroy) then yes, intellect has produced more destructive power than anything else.

however as pointed out, bacteria and viruses have destroyed lives efficiently for millennia - intellect is new, and on a geological/biological scale, intellect is fast, but computers are faster.

computers driven by intellect are faster, but not faster than computers driven by other computers.

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