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Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Intellectual. May 15, Zrinka rated it it was ok Shelves: philosophy. Basically, he is the one and only? Too philosophical to be my cup of tea. Some of his claims seemed reasonable why Palestinians aren't just terrorists , some weird racists just promote genetic diversity. About what an intellectual is like - I would agree with some of these, but all together on a pile?

It's as if he's trying t Basically, he is the one and only? It's as if he's trying to be controversial, and at the same time saying a little as possible - and that's what this book is like.

Here's a more or less complete list of the duties of an intellectual, with my comments: goes against the mainstream ideas and thoughts: it doesn't matter that one week he must represent the ideas he fought the last one, he's in it for the chase - ego-tripper; speaks for ordinary citizens - and how does he know what to speak about?

Did this just make me an intellectual? Anyway, something that annoyed me throughout the book: making everybody else look bad is still not making you look good. I agree with some of the stuff on the scientific elites, but only up to a point.

That's probably because he annoys me so much - if somebody else said it, I would probably like it. The most interesting information for me is something mentioned casually: it's the literature-based discovery or Swanson linking, named after Don Swanson, an information scientist. All in all, I wouldn't recommend it. Just found out that he endorses Intelligent Design. He concludes that it is the exile-immigrant, the expatriate, and the amateur who must uphold the traditional role of the intellectual as the voice of integrity and courage, able to speak out against those in power.

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In fact, intellectual life has always placed a positive value on fast-talking. Wit involves the strategic mastery of enthymematic reasoning, whereby one can simply state the conclusion and perhaps one premise, used as a rhetorical prompt and the audience can infer the implied argument. The addition of visual imagery facilitates wit because, as the Chinese say, a picture speaks a thousand words.

To be sure, wit can be seen in both elitist and proletarian terms. At the elitist level, the failure to make explicit the intermediate steps of an argument can leave the audience puzzled and confused.

What has yet to be seriously explored is the psychology underlying wit though Freud had views on the matter , which involves the interjection of short, sharp emotional outbursts in otherwise emotionally neutral reasoning, something that television ritualizes in its laugh and applause tracks. The most obvious answer is that it enables more people to function as intellectuals while making it harder to decide which intellectual is worth taking seriously.

But this problem was already recognized at the dawn of the printing press, and yet we have managed to develop the relevant powers of discrimination. So I am sanguine on that front. In effect, you can hide behind the avalanche of data that you unleash. Consider the radical difference between the actions of a paradigmatic intellectual of the modern period, Emile Zola, and Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks.

Assange, in contrast, simply hacked into diplomatic websites around the world and sent the information to journalists to do whatever they wished. In his day, Zola was called a traitor for explicitly trying to undermine the authority of the state. While Assange may be currently pursued on similar grounds, in fact he is really only guilty of mischief on a grand scale.

Whereas Zola used his personal authority to make up for a lack of evidence that might exonerate Dreyfus, Assange simply hides behind the evidence without exerting any interpretive authority, presuming that other people will do the work for him. The basis of science and philosophy in ancient Greece — some would say intelligence — were mathematics and logic? They are the foundations for the development of artificial intelligence which is now being structured in a corporal form.

What is your opinion on the relationship between artificial and human intelligence? I agree that modern notions of intelligence are grounded in mathematical reasoning, understood as providing the foundations for logic. However, this would have been seen as quite extreme in ancient Greece, associated mostly with the Pythagoreans and Platonists.

For me, the interesting question is how we came to think that a this is the most significant feature of human existence and b we might be able to reproduce, if not extend, this feature in a creation of our own. In other words, humans are both god-like and not quite gods. This suggests a successor species perhaps artificially created capable of amplifying our understanding of God, whose scope is defined as universal. Mathematics provides the clearest access to this ultimate conception of being by opening us to the idea of infinity.

On this basis, it is not unreasonable to want to use our god-like capacities to construct beings still better capable of reaching this state of universality. In the past the brain and the thinking process were often associated with the concept of a clock.

Now the clock has been replaced by the computer, and we say that the brain is a computer, although this is not correct. What is your view on the relationship of modern intellectuals and computers, computer science and intelligence? Is this another component of the modern intellectual, or does the modern intellectual resist the concept of a computer — that is intelligence based on norms, variables and laws?

Usually they had no consequences, since even most adult males had yet to receive the right to vote.