So, I’ve been kicking around this idea lately of Human intelligence.  It’s a topic that comes into my life from time to time.  Mostly, I’ve been pondering the ability of one Human to quantify the intelligence of another.  I’m not entirely sure that this is possible.  Basically, for me, it boils down to this:

Most people are of average intelligence.

Some people are far to the edge of the scale.

Either extremely intelligent or extremely not.

These extremities are rare and apparent.

Everyone else is not.

I think the judging of others is an interesting concept.  It somehow helps to give us a sense of self?  I don’t know.  I like to say that I know enough to know that I don’t know much.  I digress…

If you and I haven’t met before and then we do, we will begin to form opinions of each other, right?  I mean, there is the possibility, especially in the early stages, that we may get caught up on physical observations.  You may, for example, be distracted by my ample Neanderthal brow or abnormally large ears.  I, in turn, may be wondering, “pimple or cold sore?”.  These are things that can cloud communication – no?  But, let’s say that we are more evolved people and can get past that.  Let’s say that we are really communicating.  You know, listening, considering, observing, allowing this other person to truly interact with our being.

Well, I would say that I will mostly pick up on the things that I can relate to.  You know, things that are familiar to me.  I will go so far as to suggest that you will do the same.   You may well be displaying ideas, or paradigms even, that I have no frame of reference for.  It is quite possible, therefore, that I will be blind to your way.  It may be lost on me.  At best, I may sense that there is something about you that I cannot quite put my finger on.  I may find this intriguing or unsettling – I may want to learn more or I may want to put as much distance between the two of us as humanly possible.   You have heard of the concept of the parallel universe?  Well – parallel universe.  That is, an ethereal ocean of truth, life and knowledge existing in the same time and space as the universe I call home that is completely invisible to me.  Undetectable.  Or is it?

Perhaps you are presenting me with an opportunity to discover something within myself that I’ve yet to imagine.  Perhaps you are offering me a more complete understanding of this place we live in.  Perhaps, then, the choice is mine.  Do I openly accept you as a relevant part my universe (I heard it was Christ who suggested that, to understand the universe, you must first accept yourself as part of it)?  Or do I label you as separate?  Different.

Honestly, I do not understand how you can possibly be separate.  This is a concept that is completely lost on me.  Us and them.  I only see us.  Does this speak to my lack of intelligence?  I wonder.