Our brain creates our most precious values, creates knowledge and intelligence. We do not know exactly how, yet our brain works according to...
Our brain creates our most precious values, creates knowledge and intelligence. We do not know exactly how, yet our brain works according to physical rules.
Knowledge is like matter. Cumulative property. If we create more knowledge, we have more. The knowledge of two people is the sum of the knowledge of the two of them.
Intelligence, the ability of how we are able to use knowledge, is like the property of temperature. Leveling off. The common intelligence of two people is the average intelligence of the two of them.
Therefore, in spite of the fact that the knowledge of mankind is constantly increasing, the intelligence of mankind hardly changes. That is why history is frequently repeating itself. We, humans able to function with increasing influence, but we are still unable to avoid problems. We even cannot avoid mistakes that we have already made. And the problems we create become bigger as our knowledge grows.
What can we do? In order to fulfill our mission arising from our ability to reach ultimate knowledge, to have the knowledge of the reality of the world, as a society we have to survive until then. And we cannot achieve that otherwise than that the average intelligence of mankind must also increase. Are we capable of it?
For the intelligence of humanity to grow, it is necessary for the intelligence of all of us to grow. How can we achieve this? How can we increase our intelligence?
Although knowledge and intelligence are not a consequence of each other, they still seem to interact. As our knowledge grows, might our intelligence will also grow. If the knowledge of all of us grows, perhaps the common intelligence of humanity will also grow. This condition gives us a chance to fulfill the opportunity given to humanity.
In addition to individual commitment and the individual increase of our knowledge, there is also an urgent need for social commitment. We must also choose our common role models and the leaders of society on the basis of their knowledge and intelligence, and not just on the basis of their entertainment or rhetorical abilities, populism, and promises. Can we do it? Only then we can have a chance.
This is how the physics of the brain is related to human society and the future of humanity.
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