Wisdom

If intelligence is about achieving complex goals -- what is wisdom?

Wisdom has many aspects....

One of them is effectively leveraging experience (episodic knowledge) toward intelligence.

Another is breadth -- generality of intelligence, rather than narrow-focus on particular sorts of complex goals.

And another has to do with what sorts of goals to focus on. Wisdom has to do with focusing on greater, broader goals -- broader in extent (beyond the individual self, encompassing other individual minds and even the Cosmos), and broader in temporal extent (long-term goals rather than short-term goals).

So one view of wisdom is:

Being able to use experience, along with other mental aspects, to understand and achieve a broad variety of things, with a focus on broader and longer-term things rather than self-focused or immediate things...

One interesting consequence of this view of wisdom is: it makes clear that seeking to go beyond the human condition as presently conceived, may be the best way to achieve greater wisdom....

So if one says that a strategy like "obsoleting the dilemma" is wise, this means that it is useful for pursuing wisdom -- for understanding and achieving a broad variety of things, with a focus on broader and longer term things rather than self-focused or immediate things....

And more broadly: The basic goals of Cosmism can be seen as a natural route to the achievement of increased wisdom....