The bar is in the basement, having conscious thinking take place in your head, with actual language/narrative and associative connections and consideration of anything for any amount of time regularly makes you “intelligent.”
The number of people gliding through life on the same kind of autopilot we use when we do things like driving in traffic, is astonishing and extremely frightening when you realize just how prevalent this lack of conscious thought is.
Not just intelligent, even to have a modicrum of critical thinking skills, and ounce of compassion, and its a hard time nowadays.
Yeah the bar is pretty low sadly.
The bar is in the basement, having conscious thinking take place in your head, with actual language/narrative and associative connections and consideration of anything for any amount of time regularly makes you “intelligent.”
The number of people gliding through life on the same kind of autopilot we use when we do things like driving in traffic, is astonishing and extremely frightening when you realize just how prevalent this lack of conscious thought is.