That’s the thing about general-purpose intelligence. Once you develop it for a certain set of tasks, you find you can do many other things with it.
Really, human intelligence is amazing. I also call people dumb often but I think the reality is that they are lazy when they can be. And that’s just good old fashioned resource conservation.
Sometimes it’s not lazy, as I see it, it’s just the fear of being wrong. Somewhere, somehow, the processing stops when confronted with just the notion that something one builds their life upon might be wrong. For instance the people that wonder what’s stopping atheists from raping and murdering. Perhaps that’s because they based their notion of good and evil on some supposedly unbreakable laws (lest you suffer eternal torment) versus just pondering about why those laws were set to begin with.
So I suppose it can track back to lazyness, after all. Nevermind, then.
Resource conservation be damned. My grandma used to say don’t mess with an idiot, 'cause his mind is fully rested.
LOL that’s a funny one, gran! Yes once you realize that thinking is actually resource intensive hard work, it makes more sense. People will avoid hard thinking even more than hard physical labor. And having to rethink your whole life… that’s serious work!
That’s the thing about general-purpose intelligence. Once you develop it for a certain set of tasks, you find you can do many other things with it.
Really, human intelligence is amazing. I also call people dumb often but I think the reality is that they are lazy when they can be. And that’s just good old fashioned resource conservation.
Sometimes it’s not lazy, as I see it, it’s just the fear of being wrong. Somewhere, somehow, the processing stops when confronted with just the notion that something one builds their life upon might be wrong. For instance the people that wonder what’s stopping atheists from raping and murdering. Perhaps that’s because they based their notion of good and evil on some supposedly unbreakable laws (lest you suffer eternal torment) versus just pondering about why those laws were set to begin with.
So I suppose it can track back to lazyness, after all. Nevermind, then.
Resource conservation be damned. My grandma used to say don’t mess with an idiot, 'cause his mind is fully rested.
LOL that’s a funny one, gran! Yes once you realize that thinking is actually resource intensive hard work, it makes more sense. People will avoid hard thinking even more than hard physical labor. And having to rethink your whole life… that’s serious work!