So I'm reading this book right now called "The Pig That Wants to be Eaten" (book review to come! Stay tuned!) Anyhoo this book is basically a compilation of situations thought up by philosophers over the centuries, which are designed solely for the purpose of making you think. The book refers to these situations as "thought experiments".
After reading a few of them, I felt somewhat inspired and while on a caffeine high (i dont usually drink coffee by the way, but its been a grueling week) I came up with one of my own.
Here goes:
Smartness. The concept of being smart. A smart person is considered smart because there are other people to compare that person against. If this person knows more than the people around them, they are smarter. If they know less then they are considered stupider (for lack of a better term). Right? But since this concept is based on comparison, consider the following.
Suppose that since the beginning of time, there only ever existed one person.
Without anyone to compare this person against, would this person be considered smart or stupid?
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As this is a transplanted blog from multiply, I wanted to preserve the comments left by everyone there.. as such, i have decided to copy and paste them here.
ramon toralba wrote on Jan 21, '07
consider that it's also a term that others label you, not one that you label on to yourself. so if no one is there to label you as smart...
marlyn martinez wrote on Jan 23, '07
whoa....you guys made my brain gears turn!!!! hehhe...
good one =)
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