On 3/19/2015 8:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
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Stupid (unwise) people got the Nobel Prize in physics, like some nazi, for example. No,
a prize, nor a grade measure intelligence. But it can measure works, perseverance,
competence, and other qualities. Intelligence is simply not measurable. It is
qualitative, close to wiseness and conscience/consciousness. It is almost the natural
state of mind of Löbian machine, before they get wounded by life. Stupidity is a form of
neurosis. It leads to obsession, and the belief in self-superiority on qualitative non
communicable things.
Some Nazis exhibited perseverance, competence, courage, and other qualities. Some Germans
were probably wise to join the party, even if they didn't sympathize with it's aims. You
seem to want "intelligence" to just mean whatever you admire and "stupidity" whatever you
dislike. You take them as moral/ethical categories and pretend that they are validated by
your TOE - but I think that is wishful thinking.
Brent
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