On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 4:47:09 PM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 22 Dec 2014, at 20:14, LizR wrote: > > Sometimes allegedly conscious beings behave very unintelligently. However > using Bruno's distinction intelligent behaviour is conscious (goal directed > etc) but competent behaviour isn't. > > So we have 3 classes of being > > 1 conscious > 2 intelligent > 3 competent > > 2 inplies 1 but 1 doesn't imply 2 so 1 is wider than 2. 3 isexclusive from > 1 and 2. > > But how then to distinguish competence from intelligence? > > > > With a joke. > > Competence discerns and builds of itself. > > Intelligence laughs of itself. > > Intelligence is needed to recognize our error , which is needed to develop > competence, but competence when developed can make intelligence sleepy, > laughing of the others, feeling superior, saying a lot of stupidities, etc. >
competence is admriable, always. Never mocked or belittled. it takes 10 years to hit threshold competence in a major field of operation. Can't be sped up by intelligence. Isn't driven by intelligence much either. I couldn't endorse your rather histrionic turn of phrase...intelligence should be cherished. Not many have a brain with the kind of reach necessary for breakthrough physics, invention and social and economic revolution. Our geniuses are rarities....we must all try to find them, and be sure to keep their way clear. We owe everything to the few genius minds. Feeling it's all so unfair....I want to be a genius, who says I shall not? Tough....thank lucky stars for that peachy tight bum you've got, and the fact you've never had to earn a living. intelligence, mostly gets pissed away....and where so intelligence is utterly worthless. I don't respect intelligence absent accomplishment....it's totally fucking unerned...like a pretty face. Breakthrough physics or bust, genius boy. Competence...on the other hand doesn't exist unless it passes muster. Competance is respected......iit's much more worthy than intelligence....it's the stuff of the higher human things. The great adventurer, mountaineer, discoverer.....these are men with broad competencies. The only point of order is just that, it isn't intelligence. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
