You can still enjoy what intelligence you have, and acknowledge your superiority if it’s accurately gaged. But being proud of your in-built mental acuity strikes me as nearly as absurd as being proud of having extraordinarily efficacious liver. Though it’s an unavoidably brain-state, pride is a bit masturbatory. I’m sure it has some evolutionary function, but it might be as arbitrary as proud ape-men were better able to convince ape-woman they were ape-men of accomplishment.
You can still enjoy what intelligence you have, and acknowledge your superiority if it’s accurately gaged. But being proud of your in-built mental acuity strikes me as nearly as absurd as being proud of having extraordinarily efficacious liver. Though it’s an unavoidably brain-state, pride is a bit masturbatory. I’m sure it has some evolutionary function, but it might be as arbitrary as proud ape-men were better able to convince ape-woman they were ape-men of accomplishment.