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“Children don’t see the world, don’t observe the world, don’t contemplate the world, but are so deeply immersed in the world that they don’t distinguish between it and their own selves.” - Karl Ove Knausgaard, Autumn
Tom Critchlow • LF:13 Family Futures
Nowadays everybody is so scared of life and of risk and of anything that comes from it, that we've developed brittle shells around ourselves which make us rather lonely beings.
— Iain McGilchrist, The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 20 [YouTube]
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quirine brouwer • all my friends and i talk about is getting rid of our phones
At its core, intelligence can be viewed as a process that converts unstructured information into useful and actionable knowledge.
Stanislas Dehaene • How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
intelligence is not something which exists, but something one does; it is active, interpersonal and generative, and it manifests when we think and act.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
First, intelligence is situational—there is no such thing as general intelligence. Your brain is one piece in a broader system which includes your body, your environment, other humans, and culture as a whole. Second, it is contextual—far from existing in a vacuum, any individual intelligence will always be both defined and limited by its environme
... See moreErik Larson • The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
Instead of a measurable, quantifiable thing that exists independently out in the world, we suggest that intelligence is a label, pinned by humanity onto a bag stuffed with a jumble of independent traits that helped our ancestors thrive.