<p>Would you rather increase your intelligence at the expense of your wisdom, or vice versa?</p>
<p>Assume both values are stable (a horrible assumption but we will use it for the purpose of this thread).</p>
<p>nice semantics</p>
<p>They’re distinct stats in NetHack and Angband :)</p>
<p>I’d much rather be a super-intelligent guy who comes up with original theories on stuff than some guy who just knows random stuff but doesn’t know what to do with it (except own in quiz bowl).</p>
<p>BTW, what’s up with your zero posts? Can you PM me the trick or whatever for that?</p>
<p>Wisdom-knowledge of what is true or right coupled with just jugment as to action ; sagacity discernment, or insight.
Intelligence-capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.
(I know everyone already knows the definitions but I wanted to look them up:D)</p>
<p>I think I would rather be wise. From my perspective, it seems that one becomes wise through further development of intelligence. I find wisdom to be a stage in which intelligence has already been acquired and has been further progressed. I think that one has to already hold intellect before they become wise. As opposed to intelligence, in which one doesn’t need wisdom. Of course this is solely my opinion and is foredoomed to opposition.</p>
<p>^But remember the OP’s restrictions. If you are at some base level of intelligence, any of your attempts to become wiser result in decreased intelligence. </p>
<p>I think, in reality, your analysis is pretty correct. But this is the OP’s world, and his laws of nature dominate (as evidenced by his zero post count).</p>
<p>Well, If I were more intelligent, I might be better at whatever I do. On the other hand, being wise would let me be content with my ineptitude. </p>
<p>Living on a mountain, eating berries with no shelter? There are more important things to life.</p>
<p>It is so much more important to be wise. Intelligent people face crises all the time. A good example is a movie I saw recently about John Nash getting schizophrenia (A Beautiful Mind). Wisdom is so much more dependable than intelligence, and anyone from a 17-year old to a 95 year old can be wise. Intelligence to me seems more egoistic and less virtuous.</p>
<p>Question for the OP:
with warts… definition of wisdom as “knowledge of what is true or right coupled with just judgement as to action ; sagacity discernment, or insight”, would losing intelligence affect any of this definition of wisdom? This is where your world breaks down. The two have some relation, thus one can not go indefinitely up while the other goes indefinitely down. </p>
<p>In my connotative definition, wisdom was just knowing random facts, not necessarily knowing what to do with them. So in my definition, I would rather be intelligent. But apparently my definition is wrong, so I’m becoming more inclined to switch to wisdom. Tough topic…</p>
<p>Can you please clarify OP? I’m curious as well:></p>
<p>Intelligence - I would make sooooo much money!</p>
<p>Well I can’t speak for intelligence but I just lost my wisdom yesterday and my teeth hurt like hell now.</p>
<p>But if you are not wise that money will do you no good</p>
<p>^^Sorry, it goes away in a day or two. Take motrin!</p>
<p>For me the pain got worse! No pain the first day (I actually found the procedure funny and tickling enough that I was laughing during and afterwards- despite me not taking laughing gas), then really minor pain the next few days, then bothersome pain for the next two to three weeks.</p>
<p>^Really? I took motrin the first two days and after that I was fine. Maybe I was just lucky:)</p>
<p>You can take up to twice the amount on the bottle which usually equals a prescription dose (depending on the mg per pill). That what’s my mother (physician) always has me do.</p>
<p>I prefer being wise. When I think of wisdom, I equate it to a person’s maturity in handling situations, their responsibility, their decision making, judgment, insight, experience, and knowledge. I believe these traits are more important to succeed in life than pure intellect. Many intelligent people are not rational.</p>
<p>I guess I’m partial because I don’t know what it’s like to be intelligent. Though, even though I’m dumb, I live a successful happy life because I know I can make rational mature decisions about my future.</p>