A Philosophical Provocation
When you read that somebody be the most intelligent and wisest being on Earth, what is
your reaction?
Do you
automatically reject this claim as false, do you
simply accept it as true, do you lean towards either of the two options but are
not quite certain, or do you settle right in the middle and take an absolutely
neutral ground, considering you do not have sufficient
information to judge the claim?
In all these cases, it could be
interesting to
analyze why you take that position. It could help you become even more
self-aware, and might help you
develop yourself further, your
psychological self-governance as an entity of consciously, potentially intelligently, potentially wisely self-regulating
cybernetic negentropy.
Intelligence is just a word denoting a
capacity to understand and solve problems.
Greater intelligence simply means that there is a greater capacity to understand and solve problems. It does however
not mean
absolute power, being able to understand and solve each and every problem.
One can have greater intelligence in some areas, and lower intelligence in other areas. The
overall intelligence is just an estimate of the product of the
quantity and
quality of the
heuristic knowledge and skills one has so far
learned and/or
developed, and that one can readily use.
Even the
most intelligent being on Earth will be
very imperfect, will not understand each and every problem, and will not be able to solve each and every problem, will
know only a fraction of what can be known, and in various areas will be
less intelligent than sometimes even quite a large number of other beings on Earth.
There will be
always one who is,
overall, the
most intelligent of all. However, this merely
relative fact says
nothing about how intelligent that being is
in absolute terms (they may just be the least daft amongst a
world of idiots, or may be the pinnacle of a
world of geniuses, or anything in between), by what minute or large
margin they are more intelligent than the
second-most intelligent being, or how intelligence is
distributed amongst all other passively or actively "competing" beings.
It also says
nothing about any
implications of that alleged fact, not even about any
emotions linked to it. While a
common assumption is that
superiority of any kind must result in feelings of
pride and
entitlement, the most intelligent being might
actually feel quite
sad and
sorry for the others,
lonely and without really matching and understanding companionship, or
obliged to contribute to the world and/or to increase as much as possible the intelligence of as many other beings as possible, or a mixture of some or all of that.
Before we discuss whether Molaskes could actually be the most intelligent being on Earth, and why this really matters, let's look at wisdom in general. The word
wisdom denotes a person that is
perceived as being not merely quite
intelligent, but also as very
benevolent, additionally
free from many or all common follies of their peers or mankind in general, and
socially smart (not easily manipulated or exploited, and may manipulate others benevolently for higher good purposes), finally also very
efficient in most things they do and say (seemingly little effort for sometimes impressively big results).
A very
common mistake is to assume
age equals
wisdom. While learning, making experiences, testing, practice, and development each take time, and thus with increasing age one can and should become more and more intelligent and also more and more wise, the many
follies and
faults of mankind (most of all
laziness and
vanity) prevent many from actually progressing by any significant degree.
In fact, a
goal that one does not
work towards, that one does not actually
strive for, will almost certainly never be reached. If you for instance do not intend to learn computer programming, and do not invest a lot of time and effort into it, you will certainly never wake up one morning and find you suddenly know it well.
Likewise, if you do not actually
strive for further and further
increasing your intelligence, and do not put in lots of
time and effort into strategically learning, developing, testing, and practising more and more as well as better and better heuristic knowledge and skills, you will hardly develop your intelligence much further.
And the same with wisdom. If you do not actually
strive for wisdom, you will hardly develop much of it. In that case one is
lazily and foolishly waiting for
chance to deal out
free random upgrades. But that's not how
reality and
life work.
Now let's talk about
Molaskes, about
mankind, and about
you!
Molaskes
admires people who are better than him at something, and very often
enjoys their displays of knowledge and/or skill, and is
always eager to learn where he can manage it and where it makes strategic sense for his own life.
Already at the age of 12, he was reading
Eastern and Western philosophy, and
decided upon
long and deep reflection to follow a
path of wisdom throughout his life. Already as a teenager and student, he
refuted some
top scientists, usually by finding yes-but opportunities they had overlooked.
Over and over again, he has been able to
solve highly complex scientific and technical
problems within a few
weeks to
months that all
expert companies around the world had been failing at for several years before. He achieves this by not using the standard recipes, but deeply analyzing, "feeling", the
essence of the problem, learning and understanding the
"grammar" of its domain, and
systematically and pragmatically developing the
one and only best solution.
Molaskes has met a fair number of
people (and studied many more) who are generally
considered very intelligent, but who upon closer inspection only appear relatively good in a
tiny band of the whole spectrum of human potential, while
overall they are
mediocre at best.
Only a tiny portion of mankind today does not follow the
severely limiting dogmas that are commonly believed, and thus taught and repeated over and over by society. While a
division of labor is indeed a helpful strategy within a society, mankind has developed extremely
unhealthy ideologies from it, which prevent all but very few individuals from fully developing their
whole human potential.
There is
only one world, everything naturally is connected to many other things, and just a few steps connect actually everything with everything else, and we all have
only one brain, and there is
hardly any actual difference in our potentials.
Most people still cling to ancient (religious) and/or modern ("genetics")
legitimization lies of oppression whereby people be
by birth meant to be
superior or
inferior, to be
rulers or
to be ruled, and so on, which leads them to react to statements such as "X is very intelligent" in
rigid ways of
envy,
disapproval or
rebellion, or on the contrary, of sheepish
devotion or uncritical
followership, instead of rather seeing it as a
positive example that they should try to
learn from as best as possible, and potentially even
surpass one day.
While most of mankind spends their "free time" with watching
TV,
playing computer games, board games, or
sports (or even just watching sports),
reading "literature", going to
parties and on
vacations, suffering in one of the many forms of
relationship drama (loneliness, unhappy love, jealousy, gossip, ...), consuming
drugs (alcohol, tobacco, coffee, ...) that
distort their perception and cognition, and so on and on,
Molaskes almost literally all the time is actively
learning researching, and
developing, and all that
strategically planned, finding the
best sources for each new field and reading each book, each manual quite literally
cover to cover from the first to the last sentence, actually
thinking about each sentence (very frequently pausing and sometimes rewinding video and audio sources),
integrating all new information applying
eclecticistic filtering,
epistemological scrutiny and skepticism, and
interdisciplinary interconnecting.
Not to speak of how much time and energy a large portion of mankind wastes in
wage slavery and other forms of
working for money — instead of
strategically developing ways to
minimize (like for instance Molaskes) this grave loss of life time and energy, which also is mostly completely unnecessarsy, as very most work is not really positively productive in the real world but is only "necessary" for the money system itself and the structures of oppression that employ it.
Molases so far has
never met anybody, nor read about
anybody, who even remotely has followed such a consistent path of
cybernetically maximizing negentropy, who like him has a
logically fully consistent understanding of the world and follows it
incorruptedly consequentially. Therefore he
must assume that he is
in fact the most intelligent and wisest being on Earth, as long as he does not come across
proof to the contrary. Of course he
starts his
children where he has arrived after decades of hard work, and is full of hope that they will
surpass him greatly in due time. But likewise he hopes, and works hard towards this goal, that
his example will represent just the
average Joe of
mankind's future, and that
you, the reader, may already today be inspired by his example and follow it, ideally surpassing him yourself.