I’m Not a Genius…

Alright, so y’all see me write a bunch of posts about “genius” and what not…

I’m sure a lot of you think I’m talking about myself (or at least, how I must see myself), but in reality, that’s not the case at all…

While it’s true that my brain does function well, and can consume, process, organize and output information, ideas and expressions, in complex and layered ways, cleanly and efficiently in real time, in many of the same ways that genius-level individuals can and/or do, I don’t technically qualify as a genius because how I process information and reality runs on a different mode than genius runs on…

Let me break it down though, so that there’s no confusion here…

Genius runs on perceptive valuation, or what can also be referred to as idealism. Basically, a genius is a person who possesses advanced capabilities for using intellectual bonding and separating techniques to navigate through existing or theoretical conceptual fields.

How this differs from me and how I process information is that I don’t really have to utilize idealism at all. Because I have the avatar perspective, I can see everything in and according to principles. That means I don’t have to navigate through, learn, build from or attempt to build onto, or rely on theoretical bases. I don’t have to theorize. I don’t require or have to rely on modal paths and/or formulaic thinking in order to navigate through most conceptual fields.

So think of it like this…. And I may have I’ve used this framing device before; if I did, then just bear with me…

Imagine human intellect as being a type of city…

Let’s liken knowledge-bases to houses; belief systems and institutions to social gathering spots — e.g, marketplaces and stores, schools, churches, entertainment venues and what not; and the modal paths (the formulas humans use — i.e., the scientific method and bodies of theory procured therein) to streets within that city…

Now let’s liken “understanding” to the general sense of agency a person feels within that ideological construct. Let’s say their understanding — their experiential vantage point is their identity within and with respect to the city, which is an amalgamation of their knowledge-base (home), the belief systems and institutions that they identify through (social gathering spots) and the streets they know and use most frequently (the formulas and modal paths they rely on the most).

How we’ll determine intelligence within this framing device is by the speed with which interlocutors (in that city) can navigate through the streets of the city. For brevity’s sake, let’s make the speed by which they navigate through the streets of the city proximal to the speed with which they progress through and build out the respective structures they occupy and pass through in their day to day lives…

So for instance, (what some might consider) a ‘below average’ person could be thought of as walking…

A step above that would be like riding a bike…

A step of that (let’s say, where average intelligence falls) could be likened to riding a bus and/or moderate-to-regular speed public transportation…

A step above that (the point where people technically qualify as “smart” ) could be likened to owning a vehicle (but you know, in a densely populated area, though).

“Geniuses” could be likened to people who have special access to bullet trains, which have routes and stops that are intricately and methodically networked throughout the entire city.

In this sense, people who can zip through modal paths of thinking the fastest and/or, who can access or create the most unique routes within the modal paths themselves are the geniuses (at least according to the framing in this scenario).

The reason I don’t technically qualify as a genius is because how I process information and reality would be more akin to flying than it would riding or walking through the streets of the city at ground level.

That means, instead of taking Euclid, to Wabash, to Siebenthaler, to Salem, irrespective of how fast I could travel down the streets, I don’t have to travel down each street… I can just fly over them, from point A to point B.

There are certain advantages to taking the modal paths that flying over them disallows though. Just think of it like knowing street names (in the form of theories, jargon and dogmas) in order to tell individuals how to get around in the city with greatest sense of ease. Added to that, on the ground level, you get to see all the houses and structures in passing. You’re more relatable… more identifiable…

That being said, flying over streets has several advantages too, in the sense that you can see where the streets dead-end or take unnecessary detours (wasting time and fuel).

The thing is, with the avatar perspective, though admittedly sometimes it can be hard (annoying) as fuck, I can walk the streets, or ride the busses, or drive vehicles, or ride on the bullet trains too.

It does take a second to divorce myself from the familiarity of instant conveyance, and then, additional effort to work through the frustration of moving slowly through (often times) fundamentally disorganized fields, however, not only can I take conventional modal paths, but I can shrink my thinking or enlarge my thinking to a degree that I can explore the city from multiple vantage points, on multiple scales of plane… I can phase in and out of the bullet trains at will, etc, etc, etc.

And this is kind of a crude analogy here, so bear with me, but, I think that’s the best way to describe differences between how I process information vs how I understand geniuses to process information (based on how I see their intelligence performing at a mechanical level).

The great irony here is that if I’m wrong, then it means I’m just a “genius”. If I’m correct however, then every person who fancies themselves a genius, who feels some sort of way about me and my refusal to adhere to or recognize the authority of the prescribed modal paths can rest easy, because what I am is different from what they are, and as such, we could never considerably be each other’s competition.

LOL, recognizing me as an avatar saves face for you, if intellectual competition is your thing…