Awakening from the Meaning Crisis Ep. 42 - Intelligence, Rationality, and Wisdom
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Nov 27, 2019 AI Snips
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Rationality vs. Intelligence and Logicality
- Rationality is not equivalent to logicality or intelligence.
- It requires multiple competencies, including inferential and control competencies, like insight and problem formulation.
Psychotechnology Defined
- Psychotechnology enhances information processing in a domain-general manner.
- Examples include literacy, numeracy, and graphing, impacting cognition broadly.
Problem Finding and Wisdom
- Problem finding, a key aspect of need for cognition, is central to wisdom.
- Good problem finders generate "problem nexuses," impacting existing problems significantly.