Knowledge

Common Knowledge and progress of human thinking

Isn’t it a bit strange, when we take a look at the second and third rank enumerating the intelligence of creatures from top to the bottom that right after us, as humans, monkeys and dolphins follow?

Is it really so obvious and clear that we are that much more intelligent than just those animals, when we have this statistic in our mind?

Sure we have a good working language, computers, art and lots of progress in science overall
But is this really a way to measure our intelligence?

In my opinion, intelligence is, in a big part, exploring and understanding life, so, philosophy.
And this is now really scary for us, listing ourselves as the most intelligent creatures on earth or even in the universe, when we know that even the old Greek had already discussed the same philosophy issues and topics, we try to understand today.

We didn’t make any progress in our philosophical thinking! The broad mass of people is probably on a level, far behind the Greek…

The great philosophers were just single individuals somewhere in between this whole undefined mass of people. No group developed philosophical topics or answers.
Descartes, Nietzsche, Kant, Sartre etc. were in a way just solitary exceptions. Today 90% of all of us still prefer thinking about the TV-Program of tomorrow or what they’re going to order in a MacDonald’s Restaurant…

Our knowledge developed maybe in some ways, but not our intelligence. This argument of ‘knowledge’ is very interesting to take a look at, because we already know loads of things without really having to learn them. It seems that we ware just using and taking our knowledge out of a big pot, which grew every century more and more and which is open for every human.

It’s even proved that people had 20% better results in solving crossword puzzles, which had been solved by a other people years and decades before, than, compared with that, new crosswords which no one has solved before. So we can set the question whether it might be possible that we ‘transmit’ our knowledge in some way.
And what’s about our natural reflexes or instincts? Our taste and emotions?

It seems that there’s a kind of network between every human and we just have to use the information out of this main pot. That would also explain the huge progress in science, look at the LHC in Switzerland, or just at your mobile which is able to play MP3s, make photos or videos and even is able to phone and write text messages…

We’re able to proceed, because we already have the basement of knowledge for nearly every scientific examination in this big common pot.

So the big question is, how can we leave this one dimensional level of thinking progress and develop a technique to illumine our life in a philosophical way, so, how can we proceed in our intelligence?