The hardships of Intelligence

[Davino]

I pursue everyday higher intelligence and it's a big chunk of my purpose and joy in life. For contrast, today I'll explain my personal hardships in this process or the shadows I dislike from it.

1. The lag between mind and embodiment 

I've been deeply struggling with this one lately. Imagine your mind skyrockets, becoming the tip of the arrow that leads your life. However, there’s a long tail, and understanding takes time to fully cascade down to the cellular level.

Let's play another analogy: Imagine you are intelligent enough to outsmart your opponent in chess. However you are unable to implement your winning strategy, because it's currently not possible to make it operative, e.g. moving everyday the chess pawn over a marathonian length, to unlock the Queen and close the game.

If you are intelligent enough, you start seeing the solution to every problem of your life but you cannot ground yet that solution because it takes time to mature. A tree doesn't blossom in a day despite perfect conditions.

So enduring this lag between strategy and reality, between mind and embodiment, between peak performance and flat performance is a source of pain for me. You cannot live up to your ultimate truth and like the horizon the more you reach the more there is.

 

2. Being ruled by lower intelligence and having to own accountability 

This is getting on my nerves lately. Having to endure the outcomes of decisions made by lower intelligence that directly impact your life.

In life, you don't have leverage to be the CEO of the world, hence stupid decisions will be made that will affect you.

Let's imagine: Your boss pushes for A, you say B. There's a clash, no consensus, boss has more leverage, A gets done. A is wrong and you have to take accountability and eat that shit plus do B.

Intelligence demands sovereignty. An intelligent mind will prefer to take accountability over its wrong decision than allowing another to correctly decide for itself.

 

3. The pain of limitation in the pursuit of understanding

Human life is full of limitations and marrying any line of inquiry a necessary loss. A truly curious intelligent mind desires to understand all of Reality both as infinite landscape and granular detail. 

I'd like to learn every epistemic field, play all instruments, speak all languages, all sciences, all math, all logic, all art, all sports, all recorded history, all finance, all books, travel to every country, to think all possible thoughts, etc.

The nature of human limitations as far as I discovered for now, doesn't allow for that quality of breath and depth simultaneously. There's a systematic compromise between each other and one has to always chose.

[Joseph Maynor]

But you run the risk where your unembodied intelligence can just be dicta that you realize later on was less important than you thought it was.

Edited Tuesday at 06:26 PM by Joseph Maynor

[Monster Energy]

You know what your problem is?

You think if you think hard enough, you’ll escape the chaos of being human.

News flash you won’t.

You’ll always be ahead of your reality and behind your expectations. That’s just how it goes. Nobody cares how clearly you see life.

They care what you do in it.

 

[Joseph Maynor]

4 minutes ago, Monster Energy said:

You know what your problem is?

You think if you think hard enough, you’ll escape the chaos of being human.

News flash you won’t.

You’ll always be ahead of your reality and behind your expectations. That’s just how it goes. Nobody cares how clearly you see life.

They care what you do in it.

I agree.  I frame it as a finite perspective not a human just to be more general.  The a-finite doesn't erase the finite.   

[Monster Energy]

1 minute ago, Joseph Maynor said:

I agree.  I frame it as a finite perspective not a human just to be more general.  The a-finite doesn't erase the finite.   

Correct 

[Davino]

1 hour ago, Joseph Maynor said:

But you run the risk where your unembodied intelligence can just be dicta that you realize later on was less important than you thought it was.

Yes, that's very necessary feedback that refines your intelligence.

One of the secrets to intelligence is feedback.

Edited Tuesday at 08:09 PM by Davino

[Davino]

1 hour ago, Monster Energy said:

You know what your problem is?

You think if you think hard enough, you’ll escape the chaos of being human.

Of course, I'm full of shit. The problem of intelligence is you constantly see it.

1 hour ago, Monster Energy said:

You’ll always be ahead of your reality and behind your expectations. That’s just how it goes. 

It is so, but not all facts are so easily digestible. I personally struggle with it. There's a balance between acceptance and striving. I'm quite non-conformist and ambitious but that demand is a fabrication of my mind. Everything can be dropped down into raw being.

1 hour ago, Monster Energy said:

That’s just how it goes. Nobody cares how clearly you see life.

But I Do!

1 hour ago, Monster Energy said:

They care what you do in it.

Utilitarianism is the philosophy that runs the world indeed, because it's the default philosophy of survival.

[AtmanIsBrahman]

@Davino what do you consider intelligence to be? Is it like aligning yourself with divine wisdom?

Here's how I understand it. There are 2 aspects of intelligence: power and direction. 

Power is how quickly your mind works for doing mental calculations or processing things. Direction is where you direct your mind--choosing where the computing power goes. 

I think spirituality helps with the direction, but power may be largely genetic.

 

Edited Tuesday at 08:22 PM by AtmanIsBrahman