There are “cognitive skills” that contribute to “intelligence”. So then the question is: are those skills a certain kind of knowledge that can be learned?
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AFAICT some can be, and many probably cannot be *yet,* and others possibly can't be unless you alter the brain. But it's early days and hard to know. Can aphantasiacs learn to create mental imagery? Not yet, maybe in the future (many have visual dreams!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
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you say your difficulty in manipulating objects hasn't held you back. it doesn't affect your ability to program? do you do better in certain subfields of programming?
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I mean...? I'm not sure I'd know if it did, and I'm not some sort of programming prodigy.
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Fun short anecdote on IQ & learning disabilities: I have a minor LD (dysgraphia), the diagnosis of which required me to have my IQ professionally examined 3 times. The results were (N), (N+20), and “due to the divergence in your abilities, no useful number can be computed.”
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I also managed to produce two LSAT score 12 points apart in my late 20’s, the low one after I trained for months to do well, the high one when I lived wild. If there’s anyone out there fixated on a test number- do not sweat it, those tests throw weird fliers all. The. Time.
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There's a language learning guy on YouTube, "Uncle Davey", who has said something similar: Your mind doesn't want to retain painful memories, so the only way to learn is in a low-stress environment, so that knowledge will be transferred to long-term memory.
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