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@nonlinear.eth
is wisdom bounded? fork the universe: in one version a person lives to be 1,000. in another, 100. can the former posses 10x the wisdom of the later?
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@tldr
To me, the framing of the question seems more appropriate for “memory” than “wisdom” (both human and CPU versions of memory) “Wisdom” as I observe its use seems more like a way of holding yourself toward the world, which is shaped by your experiences - rather than a quantitative accumulation of experiences
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@les
Maybe wisdom is bounded and time can become a variable. E.g. one experienced less or more time within a given stream of wisdom.
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@benersing
All else being equal about that forked person, yes absolutely. The only limitation is bounded information. Modern Western society does a poor job of understanding and cultivating wisdom, but it's absolutely something that is both innate (i.e., “stock”) and acquired over time (i.e., “flows”).
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@janna
I see wisdom as the ability to access and wield ever-greater levels of insight into the nature of reality, so I think there's an ultimate bound but it's unclear if we could reach it even with more time. Time allows more opportunity but isn't determinative, as acquiring wisdom is more than merely accumulating knowledge.
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@aviationdoctor.eth
This is one of those questions where linguistic imprecision makes answering more difficult. I looked it up and most definitions of "wisdom" revolve around the ability to use knowledge and experience to make good decisions and judgments. 1/3
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@adrienne
My gut answer is yes, longer life spans will lead to more wisdom. But then I remembered that quote about how science progresses one funeral at a time and maybe we don’t want longer life spans after all 🤣
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@abranti
Have you read david deutsch's beginning of infinity? He claims just that! That knowledge is unbouded.
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@keating.eth
Maybe in some things, but I have a feeling there would be much more entrenchment in unwise views.
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@mattlee
People in their60s don't generally seem much wiser than people in their 30s to me so I'm thinking it is bounded
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@outricked
Bounded. Wisdom to me is just intuition that comes w experience. We lose the intuition over time in one area of thinking if we put time into others.
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@daniskandar
Define what is wisdom? The ability to learn and relearn without attachment?
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@manishks.eth
Not sure that is true. A 20 year old can be wiser than a 80 year old.
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Such a cool discussion, such good takes. It made me think, on an individual basis, there might be a natural bound on how much wiser we can become, maybe? On a society level I wonder if the bound is reality itself (everything is knowledgeable) or if there are limits to what can be known
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@ayushm.eth
Seems wrong for the obvious reason of different rates of learning but I also know that I can learn anything given enough time
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@jianbing.eth
Or: in both they know nothing, equally, yet one spends 10x the lifespan of the other comparing themselves and the anguish of not knowing and never having enough, to the other
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