Limiting smartness
A recent study (1) argues that there is a limit to human smartness by sighting examples such as the correlation between IQ and diseases and the performance loss seen with cognition enhancing drugs in those with good baseline abilities. These observations have nothing to do with the hypothesis that there is a limit to human smartness. The article also seems to suggest that the ability to memorize is part of smartness. Those who made ground breaking contributions to Science have never shown great abilities to memorize. From an evolutionary perspective, the ability to memorize should have had survival advantages. However, in the modern context, the ability to conceptualize is an order of magnitude more important than the ability to remember. Crude metrics such as the size of the head and the size of the human pelvis were sighted as limiting constraints on smartness as if size has a pronounced effect on smartness. It is true that a bigger brain to body ratio proxies higher IQ among animals but this is more related to operating system effects. It is unclear that those humans with bigger heads are actually smarter.
However, the question whether there is an inherent limit to human smartness, with any definition, is an interesting one. This may have to be studied in the context of the system and the society, the human is part off. If a human is significantly smarter than the society that envelopes her, it is likely that the society will shun (or terminate) her. Thus an increase in smartness in a random person will not be passed on and the society will assure a reversion to the mean in terms of average IQ. Thus the limit to human smartness may not be related to any inherent hardware limitation but rather a property of the complex societies that will not tolerate random increases in intelligence in small subsets within it.
(1) Why aren’t we smarter already? Evolutionary limits on cognition. Published: Wednesday, December 7, 2011 – 14:37 in Psychology & Sociology
IQ is an invented term that started at the beginning of the 20th century and actually measures nothing. It’s supposed to make poor people feel rich ( as having their own brand of currency ) in a totalitarian society built on false notions of free will. It cannot exist without such notions.
Human smartness per se does not exist because there is no free will. Only in populations deceived they have free will is everyone trying to “do the physics of the universe” faster and better than their neighbor. They are doing it because human speech is a living spirit that works through them. Or, as God has said; “the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience.”
I can just see a discussion about how smart everyone in a room is supposed to be: I know it will not include any discussion of the nature of the speech God confounded at the tower of Babel or why anyone has ever been called “sons of belial”. But it will be INSIDE that same speech that God confounded at Babel; inside Belial.
You know good and well that if you ask someone other people have labeled as insane if they have free will, that spirit in their flesh will stop the other nonsense for effect and then say “of course” as if lucid. A lot of very ‘smart’ people have been committed on the premise they did not know how to use their free will correctly. A lot of very ‘smart’ people have killed other people on the premise the other people could not or no longer use their idealized free will correctly. ( abortion, killing the aged or injured ) .
Smart? That’s a term to encapsulate those who can’t hear God but want to pretend He has never blessed them and that they have self-wrought all their blessings themselves.
And you know it.
Psalm 37:14-16 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation. Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken. A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
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In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen
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