Tuesday 18 September 2012



Common sense v. inteligence

You see… is a personal "crusade" against all that implies the concept of common sense and that popularly is implicit in sentences like “is a lifelong thing”, “like the old people says”, “didn't tell you your mum?”, etc., etc., etc.,…
That of “is a lifelong thing” is “per se” already an arrogant presumption. One could say that we have arrived at this planet with the last cloudburst and we fill our mouth with the “is a lifelong thing”, as if life didn't exist before we had been born. Then every time that I hear that, I apply the Saxon concept to the maximum: “Treat them with the contempt that they deserve”.
“Like  the old people says” it is what the old people “mentally” registered  as effect of a cause of which they didn’t have a clue and, in most of the cases, what their " mommy " told them, that was what their grandmother told to their mother, to whom the great-grandmother told her, to whom the great-great-grandmother told o to her great-grandmother, etc., etc., etc., and that was what their predecessors mentally registered since the beginning of the times without a single damn bloody clue or idea of the "why".
And “didn't tell you your mum?” it is not more and not less than the final stage of the above-mentioned. I always tried to do the opposite of what my mother told me and I am not sorry at all. As I say, my mother didn't have a damn bloody clue about anything.
In any of the previous cases, “treat them with the contempt that they deserve”.
The common sense is the equivalent to the “instinct” in the animals. 
I hate the “common sense”. The common sense is opposed to “intelligence”. A person with too much common sense doesn't have anything of intelligent, and a person that is intelligent do things that doesn’t have common sense at all. An intelligent person doesn't have common sense otherwise would not be intelligent, as a politician can not be honest otherwise would not be a politician.
 "Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do". Jean Piaget (1896–1980) Swiss philosopher and psychologist
 The common sense all what requires is very good memory. Full stop. Intelligence requires logic, not good memory, although good memory certainly helps to deploy the logic, but it is not necessary by definition.

Following the common sense today we would not have airplanes (lifelong was common sense that a thing heavier that the air cannot fly), we would not have cars, we would not have TV (lifelong was common sense that something that smashes against something cannot appear some centimetres further on and less without having gone by the amid space  in some way [quantum physics; the electrons that bombard the plate make a quantum leap to the screen]), we would not have refrigerators, central heating, telephones, computers, trains…
 Intelligence gave us all that and more than we will have that we cannot even to imagine.
The intelligence doesn't conform to with the “lifelong” thing, it wants to know the “why”, the cause of the effect, to study it and…artificially to modify it so that the effect changes as we need  or we want and, therefore, be no more "a lifelong thing". It was the mantra of Einstein: Why?
What a re they going to do next? Revive the dinosaurs? Revive the dinosaurs and we move to the Moon? Because we can not put dinosaurs in a zoo…
This Planet has survived long before the humans did show up and species disappear by other extinguishing them and the planet kept rolling and it seems that we do not miss those extinguished beasts at all. So, What is all the mumbo jumbo about? I am too thick and I can’t understand why for we need sharks, tigers, spiders, snakes, crocodiles… Sorry, this Planet has become too small, there is not room, “someone” needs to move out.
But the worse brain washing is about the global warming.
Our Planet will warm up with or without humans on it, with cars or without cars, with pollution or without pollution.
Our star, that we call Sun (I never understood why “Sun” and what the hell is a “sun”), as any other star in the Universe, it will follow its life cycle. We are made from the residues of the formatting explosion (result of the collapsing of a molecular cloud); our start -as any other star- is growing, slowly will push away or swallow the planets of its system (the Earth will be swallow) and finally will extinguish (has not mass enough to explode and become a supernova) becoming a white dwarf, and whatever we pollute the Planet Earth or we don’t.
In any case in 4 billion years the Milky Way will no exist anymore due to the collision with Andromeda Galaxy becoming part of it (The Milky Way is travelling towards Andromeda at about 324 to 391Miles/second). We are already so close that the Milky Way is being warped affecting also the environmental conditions in all the astral bodies in our galaxy, including the Earth, with pollution or without pollution.
Our star is growing at a rate of 0.0036% every year; one point will arrive that the heat due to the growth will evaporate all the water on Earth (thought, long before, life will be impossible on Earth) and will set on fire the Planet and in about 7.6 billion years the Earth will fall into the Sun, with pollution or without pollution.

Have a nice day…

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