syncopathMon, Apr 19, 2010 “..the difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. The difference between stupid and intelligent people—and this is true whether or not they are well educated—is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations—in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.”
Constable Moore in “Diamond Age” by Neal Stephenson
these insightful lines remind me Michael Foucault saying: "the opposite of stupidity is not intelligence, but rather thinking or philosophy itself."
for i believe that in order to become capable of thinking, we need first not be baffled by ambiguous or contradictory situations. we have to forsake the instinctive animal necessity, as well as the (old) new age need - for an Answer (a final understanding). only then we may 'play forward' our mind operating systems, and embark, passionate and playful, the adventure of diversified possible & impossible hybrid futures ......
thank you Wildcat for this encouraging writing. encouraging, in the sense that it may serve as a mind-training towards .. "Knowmadic state, a state that excels in ambiguous situations, enhances syntax and semantics conversion into actual adaptation of new forms of meaning, and by consequence changes the very meaning of enmeshed existence."
“..the difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. The difference between stupid and intelligent people—and this is true whether or not they are well educated—is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations—in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.”
Constable Moore in “Diamond Age” by Neal Stephenson
these insightful lines remind me Michael Foucault saying:
"the opposite of stupidity is not intelligence, but rather thinking or philosophy itself."
for i believe that in order to become capable of thinking, we need first not be baffled by ambiguous or contradictory situations. we have to forsake the instinctive animal necessity, as well as the (old) new age need - for an Answer (a final understanding). only then we may 'play forward' our mind operating systems, and embark, passionate and playful, the adventure of diversified possible & impossible hybrid futures ......
thank you Wildcat for this encouraging writing. encouraging, in the sense that it may serve as a mind-training towards .. "Knowmadic state, a state that excels in ambiguous situations, enhances syntax and semantics conversion into actual adaptation of new forms of meaning, and by consequence changes the very meaning of enmeshed existence."