"According to Deleuze, philosophy begins with a faire l’idiot – with ‘making oneself an idiot’. Thinking is characterized not by intelligence but by idiocy. Eve

"According to Deleuze, philosophy begins with a faire l’idiot – with ‘making oneself an idiot’. Thinking is characterized not by intelligence but by idiocy. Every philosopher who creates a new idiom, a new thinking, a new language, is an idiot. The philosopher bids farewell to all that went before. A philosopher inhabits a virgin, hitherto undescribed immanent level of thinking. By adopting the principle of faire l’idiot, thinking risks the leap into the altogether other, ventures on untrodden paths. The history of philosophy is a history of idiocy, of idiotic leaps: ‘The old idiot wanted indubitable truths at which he could arrive by himself: in the meantime he would doubt everything … The new idiot has no wish for indubitable truths … and wills the absurd – this is not the same image of thought.’ Artificial intelligence cannot think because it is incapable of faire l’idiot. It is too intelligent for becoming an idiot."