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 even is intelligence?
And does it really matter?
Okay, we've got some measures and metrics – IQ, etc.
And there are indeed a bunch of people
with a very high IQ, tested or otherwise,
coming up with awfully strange ideas.
It's a fractured picture,
they're driving their intelligence in a tunnel.
What is insight and what is wisdom?
There can be artificial intelligence,
but can there be artificial insight or artificial wisdom?
Now, insight, at a quick thought,
seems to be related to actually direct perception of things,
into a deeper layer of their being or nature.
Not just the surface data that intelligence comprehends.
Wisdom then seems very related to insight
– but what is wisdom actually?
We can say that wisdom does not arise from data,
or even knowledge.
Wisdom arises from insight.
What was, will be, again, and again.
This recognition and our adaptation to it.
Wisdom in action.
Can there be wisdom that does not result in action?
Wisdom that isn't consequential.
Now there's a question.