Wise Agent

A Wise Agent is a self-aware agent who often makes wise choices.

• Context:
  • They can (typically) apply Wise Heuristics, such as aphorisms.
  • They can (typically) have Wide-Ranging Knowledge.
  • They can (typically) have Cognitive Coherence (and low Cognitive Dissonance).
  • They can (typically) make few Unwise Choices.
  • They can range from (typically) being a Wise Person to being a Wise Machine.
  • They can give Wise Advice.
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• Example(s):
  • Albert Einstein.
  • Mahatma Gandhi.
  • Noam Chomsky.
  • Steven Pinker.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Unwise Agent, such as a well-meaning unwise agent.
  • a Selfish Agent.
• See: Folly, Cardinal Virtue, Virtue, Passions (Philosophy).

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References

2022

• (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wisdom Retrieved:2022-12-3.
  • Wisdom, sapience, or sagacity is the ability to contemplate and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense and insight. Wisdom is associated with attributes such as unbiased judgment, compassion, experiential self-knowledge, self-transcendence and non-attachment, and virtues such as ethics and benevolence. Wisdom has been defined in many different ways, including several distinct approaches to assess the characteristics attributed to wisdom.

2013

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom#Philosophical_perspectives_of_wisdom
  • A basic definition of wisdom is the use of knowledge. The opposite of wisdom is folly.

• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wisdom#Noun
  1. Template:Uncountable An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.
  2. Template:Countable A piece of wise advice.
  3. The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good.
  4. The ability to apply relevant knowledge in an insightful way, especially to different situations from that in which the knowledge was gained.
  5. The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding.
  6. Template:Theology The ability to know and apply spiritual truths.
     • 1652, Eugenius Philalethes, The Fame and Confeſſion of the Fraternity of…the Roſie Croſs, pages 1–2 of the preface

       Wiſdom…is to a man an infinite Treaſure, for ſhe is the Breath of the Power of God, and a pure Influence that floweth from the Glory of the Almighty; ſhe is the Brightneſs of Eternal Light, and an undefiled Mirror of the Majeſty of God, and an Image of his Goodneſs; ſhe teacheth us Soberneſs and Prudence, Righteouſneſs and Strength; ſhe underſtands the Subtilty of words, and Solution of dark ſentences; ſhe foreknoweth Signs and Wonders, and what ſhall happen in time to come.

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