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Authority and The Illusion of Intelligence


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When people have a sense of Authority over people, they create the Illusion that their Authority defines their Intelligence.. Having Authority over others does not make you Intelligent, and It does not mean all your choices are correct...

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Elizsia;

 

Please consider:

 

When people have a sense of Authority over people, they create the Illusion that their Authority defines their Intelligence.. Having Authority over others does not make you Intelligent, and It does not mean all your choices are correct...

 

Although it is true that having authority can give the illusion of intelligence, these concepts are not really connected. Having authority means having rights. Having rights means that a person also has responsibilities.

 

So having authority "does not mean all your choices are correct", but it does mean that you alone are responsible for the results of your decision. Or it means that "the buck stops here".

 

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Which is psychology not philosophy. It should be in the correct forum. You should also ask a question. Also what you described is indicative of a god complex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_complex

 

Do you get all your knowledge from the internet and others, or do you look within.. Have you ever detached yourself from the world to develop your mind indepedantly from the world? You need the internet and others to help you find knowledge, But when you detach from the world, you can develop your mind independatly

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Do you get all your knowledge from the internet and others, or do you look within.. Have you ever detached yourself from the world to develop your mind indepedantly from the world? You need the internet and others to help you find knowledge, But when you detach from the world, you can develop your mind independatly

 

 

What exactly are we talking about here this seems to be a completely different topic. Of course I admit that a lot of the knowledge I have comes from others and a lot of their knowledge comes from others. Not everybody can afford to research new topics and often new research costs millions or billions. Most of the time we do not reference where the ideas we have come from because we may have no idea who first said what. However in most academic journals information is referenced to the people who did the research or their research. There is a massive amount of trust being put on these people that do the research. People can die if the knowledge provided to us from the researchers isn't accurate. Through reflective practice we can think of aspects of our day which may have not gone so well and talk our ideas out with our peers so that we can improve.

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What exactly are we talking about here this seems to be a completely different topic. Of course I admit that a lot of the knowledge I have comes from others and a lot of their knowledge comes from others. Not everybody can afford to research new topics and often new research costs millions or billions. Most of the time we do not reference where the ideas we have come from because we may have no idea who first said what. However in most academic journals information is referenced to the people who did the research or their research. There is a massive amount of trust being put on these people that do the research. People can die if the knowledge provided to us from the researchers isn't accurate. Through reflective practice we can think of aspects of our day which may have not gone so well and talk our ideas out with our peers so that we can improve.

 

Its not completely different when you post a link to another website showing where you get your information from.... You dont have your own ideas, you take your ideas from other people...

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So do you or else why do you know English??

 

Like i said.. Detach from the world, detach from what other people have told you to believe... Long enough to independatly re-create your own personality and mind without other people telling you what to believe or what to become... Then come back, and then you will be in my situation, you will face people that were once like you in this moment.

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Or live in the real world.

 

Yes, live and accept the world as it is... The real world? this world is not the real world... Its is full of illusions. Illusions you no longer see, because you believe science is not an illusion... Science trying to understand the illusion when science is contributing to creating illusions.... We chose one illusion to replace another... You created another prison to try and escape the one you were in... And you will never know it, until you see how destructive you have been....

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When people have a sense of Authority over people, they create the Illusion that their Authority defines their Intelligence..

Please provide solid evidence to support this assertion. I have encountered many persons in authority in a wide range of social, cultural, scientific, commercial, personal, political and legal situations. Only in the rarest of instances have any of these individuals attempted to "create the Illusion that their Authority defines their Intelligence" and in most of those cases all of they have succeeded in doing is demonstrating that their intelligence is of little note. i.e they failed to create any illusion.

 

Having Authority over others does not make you Intelligent

But being intelligent often gives you authority over others, through both formal and informal means.

 

It does not mean all your choices are correct...

The only people whom I have seen state that it does were fools. So why are you stating the bleeding obvious as if it were controversial?

 

But when you detach from the world, you can develop your mind independatly

Humans are a social species. Our development is contingent upon a progressive expansion of the range and complexity of our interactions with other humans, beginning with our mothers and growing to include, through the written word, those long dead, or geographically remote.

 

Periodically "detaching ourselves" from the world can be valuable in allowing us to assimilate and process our most recently acquired information, but if you think this represents independent mind development then you are practicing an enormous self deception.

 

You dont have your own ideas, you take your ideas from other people...

Here is one of my own ideas. Many people are smarter than me. Millions of people are smarter than me. Many of them have had very good ideas. Far more good ideas than I could ever have, even if I were smarter than they. I think it will make sense to listen to their ideas.

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Do you get all your knowledge from the internet and others, or do you look within.. Have you ever detached yourself from the world to develop your mind indepedantly from the world? You need the internet and others to help you find knowledge, But when you detach from the world, you can develop your mind independatly

 

 

You seem to be labouring under the illusion of understanding, not that of intelligence.

 

The internet is an excellent source of information, it’s also an excellent source of misinformation, the trick is to understand which is which. This shouldn’t get in the way of true/honest introspection; in fact it can enhance it, understanding yourself is to understand others and vice versa.

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I agree with Ophiolite. You have it backwards. Intelligence has merit, in any organized group of humans. It's the cornerstone trait that we paid a lot to have in the evolutionary sense. Some of our other best traits, like communication, cooperation, and tool use are greatly enhanced by intelligence, and we easily see this in most people.

 

So it's natural that a group of humans would tend to give authority to those who show the most merit, which is often being smarter than average. The intelligence makes the authority probable, not the other way around.

 

And since we observe a LOT more global progress and good deeds come from cooperation, communication, intelligence, and tool use than we do from individuals who've chosen to cut themselves off from ways to overcome ignorance, who choose to "detach from the world" and pretend they've found enlightenment in their own minds, I'd say you've got a lot more backwards than you know.

 

Btw, if you want to change the world by detaching yourself from it mentally, you should start by not using the web. It's a bit hypocritical for you to use this pulpit for that message, isn't it?

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