Thinking Game: Who Has the Better Thoughts?

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The discussion centers on the criteria that elevate one person's thoughts over another's, emphasizing the importance of evidence and rationality. It references Stephen Hawking's definition of intelligence as the ability to adapt to change and Richard Dawkins' assertion that science liberates us from superstition, advocating for knowledge based on evidence. The conversation critiques untested ideas and highlights the need for a foundational evidentialist perspective. Additionally, it acknowledges that valuable insights can come from individuals outside traditional academic or scientific realms, exemplified by a football trainer's creative contributions to chess puzzles, suggesting that brilliance can manifest in various forms.
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What is it that puts one persons thoughts above another's? please do not quote some thoughts from people that have not been tested beyond reasonable doubt.
 
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"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change" - Stephen Hawking

"Science frees us from superstition and dogma and allows us to base our knowledge on evidence […] Reason and the respect for evidence are the source of our progress, our safeguard against fundamentalists and those who profit for obscuring the truth. We live in dangerous times when superstition is on the rise and rational science is under attack." - Richard Dawkins

So the answer to your question is, from a foundational evidentialist perspective, well, evidence.
 
What do you mean by "above"? While we're at it, what do you mean by "puts"?
 
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What is it that puts one persons thoughts above another's? please do not quote some thoughts from people that have not been tested beyond reasonable doubt.

Not sure what you mean by that second one. Cannot a football trainer have brilliant thoughts? Leonid Yarosh for instance. He made several absolutely most incredible chess puzzles, known as the "Babson task".

Details: http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess/babs.html

That's beyond a normal mortal ever could think of.
 
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