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| Originally posted by winston I can relate, I've always been keen on learning what is obscure, difficult, creative, and those other subjects that might be regarded as cult material (for lack of a better term), travelling and experiencing different regions of the world have broadened my horizons. In school, I've taken classes which are not directly related to my degree; but for me, learning is about exploring boundaries and stepping out of your comfort zone. When it comes to personal relationships, I tend to keep friends who I consider to be smart and that might teach me new things, while sharing different perspectives about various subjects in life; specialization is for insects, a mind is a terrible thing to waste. In addition, I can be a **** to people who I consider of 'lesser intelligence' e.g: slylee or rose |
Don't get me wrong, I am aware of my weaknesses, and I know plenty of very intelligent people in this board too, who blow me out of the water (many times); but for me, intelligence is a matter of being curious and asking questions, those who settle for ignorance fit my bill of what makes a person stupid; it's all about stepping out of your comfort zone, and constantly asking yourself why?!
Everyone can be intelligent, everyone...
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| Originally posted by winston I can relate, I've always been keen on learning what is obscure, difficult, creative, and those other subjects that might be regarded as cult material (for lack of a better term), travelling and experiencing different regions of the world have broadened my horizons. In school, I've taken classes which are not directly related to my degree; but for me, learning is about exploring boundaries and stepping out of your comfort zone. When it comes to personal relationships, I tend to keep friends who I consider to be smart and that might teach me new things, while sharing different perspectives about various subjects in life; specialization is for insects, a mind is a terrible thing to waste. In addition, I can be a **** to people who I consider of 'lesser intelligence' e.g: slylee or rose |
) if you don't keep people with lesser intelligence around you.
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| Originally posted by jennypie I actually do know quite a few hot, rich, successful women. However I don't think any of them wants kids.  |
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| Originally posted by winston I can relate, I've always been keen on learning what is obscure, difficult, creative, and those other subjects that might be regarded as cult material (for lack of a better term), travelling and experiencing different regions of the world have broadened my horizons. In school, I've taken classes which are not directly related to my degree; but for me, learning is about exploring boundaries and stepping out of your comfort zone. When it comes to personal relationships, I tend to keep friends who I consider to be smart and that might teach me new things, while sharing different perspectives about various subjects in life; specialization is for insects, a mind is a terrible thing to waste. In addition, I can be a **** to people who I consider of 'lesser intelligence' e.g: slylee or rose |
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| Originally posted by Spam Even better! I'm a damn good cook/cleaner. Without kids to feed and shit, I can do kegels and masturbate so I last longer when she gets home. Hook that shit up Jenny! |
lol I love how this dude brings Jamie and I up as if he knows us so well.
I never even had a problem with you. I always thought you were weird (ask anyone lol) and now for some reason I don't meet your standards. Oh well.
let me paraphrase Douglas R. Hofstadter in his intricate thesis on Godel, Escher, Bach Eternal Golden Braid; a book which encompasses the complexity of Godel's number theory, self-reference, strange loops, entangled hierarchies, and how mathematics and art can be linked by the use of symbols; how the unanimated can become animated; how artificial intelligence works, and there is so much that can be said about this book, but it would take me longer than a post 
However, there is a very interesting paragraph on intelligence, which I'll freely copy from the book,
"In our century the time was ripe for computers-computers beyond the wildest dreams of Pascal, Leibniz, Babbage, or Lady Lovelace. In the 1930's and 1940's, the first "giant electronic brains" were designed and built. They catalyzed the convergence of three previously disparate areas: the theory of axiomatic reasoning, the study of mechanical computation, and the psychology of intelligence.
These same years saw the theory of computers developed by leaps and bounds. This theory was tightly linked to metamathematics. In fact, Godel's theorem has a counterpart in the theory of computation, discovered by Alan Turing, which reveals the existence of ineluctable "holes" in even the most powerful computer imaginable. Ironically, just as these somewhat eerie limits were being mapped out, real computers were being built whose power seemed to grow and grow beyond their makers power of prophecy.
Babbage, who once declared he would gladly give up the rest of his life if he could come back in five hundred years and have a three-day guided scientific tour of the new age, would probably have been thrilled speechless a mere century after his death - both by the new machines, and by their unexpected limitations.
By the early 1950s, mechanized intelligence seemed a mere stone's throw away; and yet, for each barrier crossed, there always cropped up some new barrier to the actual creation of genuine thinking machines. Was there some deep reason for his goal's mysterious recession?
No one knows where the borderline between non-intelligent behavior and intelligent behavior lies; in fact, to suggest that a sharp borderline exists is probably silly. But essential abilities for intelligence are certainly.
1. To respond to situations very flexibly
2. To take advantage of fortuitous circumstances
3. To make sense out of ambiguous or contradictory messages
4. To recognize the relative importance of different elements of a situation
5. To find similiarities between situations despite differences which may separate them
6. To draw distinctions between situations despite similarities which may link them
7. To synthesize new concepts by taking old concepts and putting them togheter in new ways
8. To come up with ideas that are novel
THAT TOOK A WHILE!!!
p.s: typos have been fixed
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| Originally posted by jennypie I actually do know quite a few hot, rich, successful women. However I don't think any of them wants kids. |
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| Originally posted by winston Everyone can be intelligent, everyone... |
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| Originally posted by Fledz What a waste. Women who don't want kids are dead to me. |
Further proof that people who consider themselves to be intelligent are usually pretty stupid.
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| Originally posted by Meat187 Further proof that people who consider themselves to be intelligent are usually pretty stupid. |
Let me just say that I fe
money and cocks.
now hard i'm so right.
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| Originally posted by Meat187 Further proof that people who consider themselves to be intelligent are usually pretty stupid. |
winston_ashley.
It all makes sense now.
They all start off the same way, lol.
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| Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On winston_ashley. It all makes sense now. |
I believe this thread has come full circle.
Alles hat ein end, nur die wurst hat zwei.
"only the shallow know themselves."
wise man once say , "man who go to bed with itchy batty demma wake up with smelly finga.".
zaggazaw 3:16
winston, I love Hofstadter and G�del as well. 
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