High Intellect · Low Insight & Is Wisdom Consequential? ▹
What even is intelligence? Does high IQ really matter? Lots of people with a very high IQ and awfully strange ideas. Fractured pictures — intelligence driving in a tunnel. What is insight — and what is wisdom? Wisdom doesn't emerge from data — or even knowledge. Wisdom arises from insight. What was, will be, again, and again. We recognize and adapt. That's wisdom in action. Can there be wisdom that isn't consequential? 🤔What You Say ▹
Feelings Born of Ideas & Reality · How Do You Deal with Feels? ▹
Emotions! Can't live with them — can't live without them. On one hand: the unrooted emotions, not responses to "what is". Our ideas. On the other hand, direct raw emotions, intimately connected with reality as it is. Ever dealt with ungrounded, rootless emotions — pure hallucinations? And the direct raw emotions — reactions, reflexes to "what is". Positive and negative alike. But how do we manage and leverage the potential of emotions? 🤔What You Say ▹
Four Kinds & Planes of Love · Can It Last As All Changes? ▹
What is love? Does it even exist? Falling in love. That chemical drive, attraction and bonding, we fall into. What of soulmates? Is there one pinned for you out there? There's bonding on the plane of our instincts. Then we have emotional coupling. Bonding over parallel frameworks of thought. And of course the synergy from parallel roles in our lives. But how can love last when its foundations are ever changing? 🤔What You Say ▹
Questions Are Perspectives · Answers Are a Limited Goal ▹
Answers are finite. X marks the spot on the map. Case closed. But questions are like a prism. The radar goes online. Your mind begins to explore the possibilities. Questions open up perspectives. Like a constellation of your mind. How much embedded knowledge already exists in your question in itself? 🤔What You Say ▹
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