Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Thursday, January 16, 2014
CONSCIOUSNESS AND INTELLIGENCE
"Consciousness and Intelligence"
Thursday, January 16, 2014
By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman
The subtle difference between consciousness and intelligence is that consciousness is awareness of one's self and of one's context, while intelligence is the animating spirit from which consciousness derives, and upon which it feeds and rests.
Consciousness is active and inquisitive. Intelligence is passive and inert. Consciousness is limited, and quantifiable. Intelligence is unlimited and unquantifiable.
Consciousness, being active and inquisitive, can be greatly expanded," by seeking a greater awareness of one's self and of one's context: the more the better.
Intelligence is like God is: The two being one. Intelligence need not, and does not, seek anything, being already omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, and being immanent in all things from the infinite to the infinitesimal.