Yes, honored Firekeeper, I do admit to a little ennui, left over from days of worshipping Camus and Sartre. A prep school habit I from which I am slowly recovering. I bow in acknowledgment and gratitude, and that is totally without irony. (hmmm, there's a good exercise, self-healing to transmute irony...to...ecstasy?)
And I do confess to a deep skepticism about the myriad unspoken assumptions, that all start with the premise that humans are the most intelligent life on Earth. Yes, we adapt and thrive, to the exclusion of other species, and to the endangerment of our habitat. Conventionally speaking, perhaps that is more a lack of wisdom than of intelligence. And, we have a historical bias, considering ourselves intelligent because we have something called language while other species do not. I think that view has been under pressure recently.
And of course, there is the old chestnut that IQ measures what it measures, and by definition that is "intelligence".
In any case, intelligence without wisdom seems dangerous to me. Now, I see I was using "intelligence" in my earlier statement, where I really meant "wisdom". I don't think I want to test ULE for intelligence. In wondering why, I arrived with the feeling that "intelligence" is one of those words we use to finely rank beings on a hierarchy. There was a Simpsons rerun on tonight that spoke directly to that point(!).
As for measuring wisdom, I suspect that true wisdom is immeasurable, and that's what makes it wisdom.
I'll go now and keep looking within for that immeasurability.
Meet you on the other side!
Thank you and
Blessings,
Aronaya
