Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser
The results from this study are interesting but I am even more interested in the definitions of wisdom. I&#x27;ve been ruminating lately on the difference between knowledge (narrowly defined as a set of facts) vs experience. The most tortured analogy would be someone who has spent a lifetime reading books about swimming vs. a person who has spent all of their life swimming in pools&#x2F;rivers&#x2F;lakes. I realize this a non-standard and narrow definition of knowledge but I hope it is possible to bear with me since I can&#x27;t think of a suitable synonym to separate phenomenological experience from book learning.<p>It does seem that our conceptions of intelligence are related to facts&#x2F;knowledge more so than experiences. Intelligence appears to be a facility to collect, organize, analyze and draw conclusions from a set of facts. In that purely analytic view of intelligence, knowledge is highly prized. However it seems to me wisdom is more closely associated with lived experience. For certain, there does seem to be a rough distinction between someone we consider &quot;knowledgeable&quot;, someone we consider &quot;intelligent&quot;, and someone we consider &quot;wise&quot;.<p>This supposes there is some aspect of phenomenological experience that is inherently different than the collection of facts and further some aspect of cognition separate from the organization and analyzation of facts. I am very interested in the sorts of things that separate my previous distinctions: knowledgeable, intelligent, wise. Could we realize a Turing-like test for wisdom?