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SteelHands · 61-69, M
Ones ability to depart from the animal absolutes of instinctive or reactive programming of one's behavior, to just scratch the surface.
To be able to commit information through complex written forms of linguistic capabilities in complex detail. To later recall and transmit that information with a various degree of accuracy, to fold that information with other related information to draw a unique concept or conclusion. To go a tiny bit deeper.
To improvise and adapt the matter and information made available by other higher intelligences in creative, common, expiditional, enhanced or otherwise, uncommon ways.
To be flexible in group cooperative ventures and undertakings while not losing a balance of agreeably and competitive achievements. To continue.
To know these things are only a tiny bit of a shred of the (pardon the use of what's obvious, if highly redundant to me and unwelcome fact to some, shred of the miraculous reality of the human individual and collective thought and thinking process.
Almost forgot. Cooking our quarry, knowing what's safe to eat, cleaning and dressing our livestock before cooking and eating it. Soap. And not to be minimized or forgotten. Use of a commode and cleaning up after talking a dump.
Again. This is only a very short list of some rather apparent things that most anyone can come up with to answer the question above in 30 seconds or less. Books and essays have been written about it for thousands of years but these days, inferior teachers can't be bothered to encourage their pupils to investigate further. Perhaps my reply will inspire someone to read those ancient yet completely so things.
I would recommend beginning with Aristotle.
To be able to commit information through complex written forms of linguistic capabilities in complex detail. To later recall and transmit that information with a various degree of accuracy, to fold that information with other related information to draw a unique concept or conclusion. To go a tiny bit deeper.
To improvise and adapt the matter and information made available by other higher intelligences in creative, common, expiditional, enhanced or otherwise, uncommon ways.
To be flexible in group cooperative ventures and undertakings while not losing a balance of agreeably and competitive achievements. To continue.
To know these things are only a tiny bit of a shred of the (pardon the use of what's obvious, if highly redundant to me and unwelcome fact to some, shred of the miraculous reality of the human individual and collective thought and thinking process.
Almost forgot. Cooking our quarry, knowing what's safe to eat, cleaning and dressing our livestock before cooking and eating it. Soap. And not to be minimized or forgotten. Use of a commode and cleaning up after talking a dump.
Again. This is only a very short list of some rather apparent things that most anyone can come up with to answer the question above in 30 seconds or less. Books and essays have been written about it for thousands of years but these days, inferior teachers can't be bothered to encourage their pupils to investigate further. Perhaps my reply will inspire someone to read those ancient yet completely so things.
I would recommend beginning with Aristotle.