Discerning Intelligence

Intelligent people discern, through the gaps in your words, and what conversation they engender they see what is your preoccupation and where they might fit in or be repelled by it and so they answer.

Ignorance is rife and persistent, oppressive and so very unwelcome! It takes the ignorant far too long to understand!

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JovialPlutonian · 36-40, M

Intelligent or wise?

hartfire · 61-69

@JovialPlutonian I think she's talking about intelligence, not wisdom.
Intelligence is the ability to recognise patterns, how they apply in specific situations, and use them to solve problems. This includes being able to recognise gaps in patterns and mend them or improvise appropriate compensations for them.

How Palumbo98lucrezia describes an intelligent response to words fits with specific types of emotional and verbal intelligence.

In my view, wisdom is something different to but including intelligence. It is a deep understanding of human nature and ethics, and the ability to choose to behave ethically in all situations no matter how complex.
The ethics are governed by that which most enhances the well-being of life.
It values the life of the self as equal with that of all other life.