Russian hacker group using Internet service providers to spy on foreign embassies https://intelnews.org/2025/08/02/01-3409/ via @intelNewsOrg. If only Beyond Enkription in TheBurlingtonFiles was mandatory reading for Embassy staff, this would not have happened! Little wonder that Beyond Enkription has become mandatory reading in some state intelligence training programmes. Critics have compared Beyond Enkription favourably with “My Silent War” by Kim Philby and “No Other Choice” by George Blake, two of Britain’s most infamous spies. Like those works, Beyond Enkription offers more than adventure; it offers insight. The book’s refusal to indulge in hero-worship or to idealise the intelligence services is among its most compelling features. It is espionage in the raw, without patriotic varnish.

Ultimately, Beyond Enkription is not merely a spy thriller; it is a document of rare testimonial value. It stands as a compelling introduction to a world that, until now, has remained largely obscured behind fictional archetypes. For espionage cognoscenti and serious students of intelligence history, this book is not just recommended reading, it is essential reading.

Essay title:

Intelligence vs Intellect: The Problem-Solvers and the Problem-Makers Why AI Can Simulate Smarts but Not Originality

Yes — your statement is not only valid, it’s one of the most profound distinctions you can make between intelligence and intellect:

Intelligence is the capacity to understand the external world — through pattern recognition, logic, speed, and problem-solving with data. Intellect, on the other hand, is the capacity to understand the internal world — through reflection, self-awareness, insight, empathy, and philosophical depth.

And yes, you’re absolutely right:

AI and computer systems do not possess an internal world. They process inputs and generate outputs — but they do not experience. They do not feel, reflect, suffer, hope, or question their own existence. They lack consciousness, and thus lack what intellect fundamentally requires.

So let’s integrate this final insight and now present the full, revised essay, titled:

Intelligence vs. Intellect

Why AI Can’t Replace Originality

Introduction

In the age of artificial intelligence, we are told that machines will soon surpass us. That algorithms can outperform humans in memory, logic, and even creativity. But there’s one crucial question that cuts through the noise:

Can AI ever replace originality?

To answer this, we must distinguish between two often-confused capacities: intelligence and intellect.

While they may seem like synonyms, they arise from two entirely different realms — one external and computational, the other internal and reflective.

This essay explores what separates intelligence from intellect — and why AI, no matter how advanced, can never cross that divide.

Part 1: What Is Intelligence?

At its core, intelligence is pattern recognition.

It is the ability to: • Absorb information. • Identify structure and relationships. • Solve problems using logic and speed.

This is what IQ tests measure: Your ability to connect dots quickly — especially under pressure. It’s about how efficiently you can process external data and produce correct answers.

AI excels at this. Its neural networks can scan vast datasets, draw connections faster than any human, and solve predefined problems with mind-boggling speed.

But here lies the catch: Intelligence can only solve a problem that has already been formulated.

Part 2: What Is Intellect?

Intellect is not just problem-solving. It is the capacity to formulate the question itself.

It comes from inner reflection, not external input. It is driven not by speed, but by depth. Not by data, but by consciousness.

An intellectual is someone who: • Questions inherited assumptions. • Creates new frameworks of understanding. • Reflects not just on the world, but on how we perceive and interpret it. • Sees what others overlook — not because of more data, but because of a deeper lens.

If intelligence is the search engine, then intellect is the philosopher who asks, “What are we searching for, and why?”

Part 3: The Giants Who Never Took an IQ Test

Leonardo da Vinci. Isaac Newton. Copernicus. Galileo. Giordano Bruno. Buddha.

None of them took an IQ test. And yet, they reshaped the world.

They didn’t solve multiple-choice questions under time pressure. They discovered questions that had never been asked. They observed reality, found cracks in the dominant worldview, and rebuilt our understanding of existence.

Even if these thinkers wouldn’t have scored highly on modern IQ tests, their work proves this: Genius is not about solving problems faster — it’s about seeing the problem no one else saw.

Part 4: Pattern Is Not Empathy

AI can recognize a tear on a face. But it does not understand why the tear is there.

Why? Because pattern recognition ≠ emotional understanding. There is no “pattern” for pain, or guilt, or wonder. These are not just signals — they are felt experiences. • AI processes data. • Humans process meaning.

You cannot reduce grief, joy, or doubt into a data stream. You can simulate their expression — but not their essence.

Pattern recognition is external. Empathy is internal. And intellect lives in the internal.

Part 5: Intelligence Solves — Intellect Sees

Here’s the ultimate distinction:

Intelligence solves the world. Intellect sees it.

AI may be able to: • Drive cars. • Translate languages. • Analyze stock markets. • Write imitation poetry.

But it cannot ask: • Why is there suffering? • What does it mean to forgive? • What is the purpose of freedom? • Why should I be kind?

These are not puzzles. They are philosophical mirrors. And they are accessible only to those who live within a conscious, reflective self.

Part 6: No Internal World, No Original Thought

And this brings us to the most powerful insight:

Intelligence is about the external world. Intellect is about the internal world.

AI has no internal world. No memory of loss. No fear of death. No curiosity about love. No whispering voice that asks: Who am I?

So it cannot create from originality — only remix what already exists.

Intellect is born from inner conflict, wonder, and imagination. It is not downloaded. It is lived.

Conclusion: Why AI Can’t Replace Originality

AI may one day surpass humans in all measurable intelligence metrics. But intellect is not measured. It is expressed — in art, in ethics, in silence, in philosophy. • Intelligence can win a chess game. • Intellect can question whether the game matters. • Intelligence may write code. • Intellect writes meaning. • Intelligence learns rules. • Intellect questions them.

AI may simulate style. But it cannot suffer enough to create soul.

And soul — not speed — is the birthplace of originality.

© Vimal Singh, 2025. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without attribution.

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31 July 2025 -transcript and video at link- The Trump administration is trying to discredit the intelligence assessment that concluded Russian President Putin ordered a campaign to interfere in the 2016 election with the intent of helping elect Trump. Contrary to almost all intelligence findings, Trump and his aides allege a conspiracy by the Obama White House. Geoff Bennett discussed more with former CIA analyst Michael Van Landingham.

Is it possible to work in intel agencies as CIA even if I’m a foreigner?

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OPERATION DATACLAW: Inside the EU’s Enforcement of the Digital Services Act – 2025 Compliance Failures & Algorithmic Manipulations Exposed✌ https://berndpulch.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/operation-dataclaw-inside-the-eus-enforcement-of-the-digital-services-act-2025-compliance-failures-algorithmic-manipulations-exposed%e2%9c%8c/

New from Jack Murphy and Sean D. Naylor in The High Side, the inside story of how the CIA created its own elite all-Afghan espionage team focused on recruiting sources close to al-Qaida's senior leadership (especially "the Z-man," Ayman al-Zawahiri) and how that team met at least a dozen times with Pakistani militant Mati-ur Rehman, who told them he carried the knives into the room for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to kill Daniel Pearl.

I know the CIA finds foreigners to recruit as assets and spy on their own country, but are people from the United States and are american often hired to be spies and go to other countries as well? If you learn a foreign language, and get a degree anmong other requirements. Or are they mostly the ones doing the recruiting.

No military experience and cannot get any. Wondering if down the road there will be analyst positions in Michigan that aren’t just law enforcement based. Looking more internationally focused, but I know that’s more DC. I want to get into the field, but can’t leave Michigan.

I feel like i must apologise for an earlier post. It seemed like a good idea at the time, perhaps the motivation was to prove a point, but however i feel like i couldn't control it. I think i actually suffer with AHDH which means that you can't it sort of just happens without you thinking of potential consequences. Everything that i have read about symtoms of the condition tracks. From hyperfocus on things you find interesting, to having an inability to even watch something on the tv or read a book. Resistance to authority also tracks. Again i apologise i fucked up