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[leakingpen]

[Spec] The mental attitudes of Perplexians

[neophoenix]

[Demontague]

We've seen several examples of intelligence being considered trendy/cool/admirable/etc. The fact that the Academy Games has such a high profile says a lot about how Perlexians see 'intelligence' as a personality trait. This is quite unlike the 'geeky' connotations it has in our society. Could this be a product of their advanced evolution? Given say another 100 years could we see a similar shift in our society's attitude?

Wild spec: We don't know the average intelligence of a Perplexian, but let's for a moment pretend they are about the same 'IQ' level as us here, the people searching for the Cube on Earth. (Yes, I would almost go as far to say that some people on here are intelligent (not me tho) ) Are we not displaying the same level of "thirst for new and interesting concepts" about Perplex City as the residents themselves are about Earth? Maybe the reason Sente has looked to us for help is because we share a similar level of intellect and 'thirst' that an average Perplexian does.

[newzgrl]

IMHO..Me thinks Sente and the others at the Academy are trying to get their cube back in the most ingenious way they could have ever come up with. Ok ..so say I lose a hugemongous diamond ring (with special powers that only I know about).. somewhere in Perplex City... and I want desperately to get it back. Who in Perplex City is going to care about my diamond ring? No one. But what if I told em exactly what those special powers were? They'd probably try to find and keep it for themselves. So I chose to keep in mysterious, but reveal enough that it intrigues some people. Those people are a fantastic bunch of people that participate in crazy ARG's on their own time, for no other benefit than to have fun and solve puzzles. I say (if I were Sente) .. I'd skip the government ... skip the police... skip a P.I. I'm gonna give those ARGers some puzzles to do and let them have some fun in their quest to find my giganormous diamond. And then well... maybe I throw in a reward of some sort at the end. ... and then maybe I'll tell them what special powers are in my fantabulous diamond. IMHO.

[am520dj]

[DrumMajor]

The Perplexians are obviously interested in puzzles and riddles. They value intelligence over everything else. When combined with the above theory it males it obvious that they would recruit Hon to help them, Hon is amzingly bright. They probably find him impressive. But the problem with the theory lies in what helps it: If Adrian Hon is so bright that they respect his intelligence greatly, why do they use him to run thier ad campaign rather than aid in the search?

[POTUS]

leakingpen wrote:

[WhiteGulls]

I think that the mind set of PPC can be summed up in under a sentence:

Nerd concentration camp.

Seriously, they like shiny new things, value intellegence over everything else... It's like their world shoved all the nerds into a city, and barracaded them off. =P

[am520dj]

[u05mpb]

Not sure if you are interested but...

[neophoenix]

Re: Not sure if you are interested but...

[Sep7imus]

I speculated in one of the ScarlettKite threads that the replacing of photograph with drawings and paintings indicated a value that denizens of PPC attached not just to objective knowledge but also to expressive knowledge and art. They seem to value expresisonism and expressiveness over realism. If they have the technological capacity to understand so much objectively/scientifically (all the way down to emotions), they may have correspondingly interest in non-objective, artistic, and linguistic (and puzzling?) kinds of knowledge.

[u05mpb]

oops sorry! I did try to search to see if it had been posted before... I'll be quiet now

[neophoenix]

[u05mpb]

No probs! you weren't rude! And thanks!