Wisdom vs Domain specific intelligence

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When I read this Paul Graham's essay I understood that I was seeking wisdom rather than domain specific intelligence. If I refer to my earlier post named "Three levels of Consciousness", I can say that seeking wisdom is in the "third level of consciousness" and seeking "domain specific intelligence" is in "second level of consciousness".

In the past 6.5 years I simply could not spend much time in seeking domain specific intelligence. I was completely addicted to reading books from different fields only to understand how exactly this world is working. Which I think has paid off when I finally ended my book reading stride with "Consciousness Explained".

I still will read books but the rate of seeking wisdom may not be high. So finally I started applying whatever Ideas I have learnt till now. I will have to see what I end up with in my life :-)

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Vinayagamoorthy said…
If an "Idiot" thinks that he is intelligent, he can still be "Curious" about how others are "Idiots" :-)

If we see mathematically, I would say "Idiot"ness is a negative displacement and "Curiosity" is a positive velocity. So I think "Curious idiot" need not be an oxymoron. :-D
Fri Nov 02, 03:30:00 PM 2007
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