[MD] Intellegence/intellect

[Ron Kulp]

I understand, 
much like "what's true is always" useful to "what's useful is always true."


Good points, thanks.

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Ron said:
What would discern intellectuals from fortune tellers? Belief? Intelligence is the ability to predict the future.

dmb says:
Which one is more successful at predicting the future? Seems to me that crystal ball readers make people feel hopeful or excited about the future, usually as it relates to future riches and romance but as a means to intelligently guide future actions they are mostly disasterous. These two things have future predictions in common but only in the most vague and trivial sense. We could list their differences all day long and the fact that they both look forward is not enough to erase those differences. Astrology and astronomy both look at the stars but that doesn't mean they're the same. Same with alchemy and chemistry, myth and history etc. These things are connected in an evolutionary relationship and the similarities reflect that but the latter can't be reduced to the former. Or so it seems to me.


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