The Delusion of Intelligence

The law of the conservation of mass, the principle idea that mass can be neither created nor destroyed. If we weigh everything else in mass then why not our ideas also, and as such why would this rule not apply to our ideas? The answer in short, is that it does. Humans have not created great ideas out of thin air, not made progression without base, and not become visionaries but instead only disciples. If ideas come from the joining of experience (see “On the Intelligence of Ideas”) then the experiences have always been there for us to discover and be enlightened with, and we can only be credited with properly joining together those experiences to form ideas, and not actually conjuring them from the depths of some undiscovered genius psyche. We continue on the delusion of intelligence, when we are simply replaying the information the universe has always held.