Coyote on Nostr: I am still :ablobcatsweatsip: ing nprofile1q…8g9h8 I view the mind as being made up ...

I am still :ablobcatsweatsip: ing (nprofile…5dmj) nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqnkz2vjgqjn9y6kmsphg3eaq9up3cncg68schf8da6d6e55ze9f9sn8g9h8 (nprofile…g9h8) I view the mind as being made up of intelligence, knowledge, and wisdom. Intelligence is ones ability to learn, to see patterns and make associations, what IQ tries to quantify. Knowledge is what one knows; it's all the factoids and experiences that can be recalled without thinking. Wisdom is the merging of those two. A wise person is one who has a large bank of knowledge to cite and an aptitude of seeing subtle patterns to pick salient ideas for whatever one is thinking about. Wisdom is how efficient one is at applied thinking.

I do not believe one can improve the fundamental ability of intelligence but one can increase one's knowledge thus increasing one's wisdom. "Brain exercises" show one how to think in order to improve some function of the mind, so they're bits of knowledge optimized at increasing wisdom but are sold as increasing intelligence.

I think you have a similar view to mine. To put your advanced academic study improving your thinking in unrelated topics idea into my system, the academic study increases knowledge but is irrelevant to intelligence. An intelligent person will get more out of studying, he will more likely see a way to tie the topic to a problem he encounters in the future, but his thinking mechanisms will remain unchanged.