On intelligence & IQhttps://www.pscp.tv/w/b7DSEDFWR2p2cUFYUlllS098MWRSSlpta1BRck1HQiPaAXczH1pEGvCjxYyo-c89ueVAavqGxem6NWuLCoxZ …
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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?
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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Some things some people can do, in principle others cannot...on that view. So the human mind is *not* universal, then.
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Brett, everything you see around you is a hallucination in your mind. Try using your “universal” mind to alter it. Can you do it? Most can’t normally do this, but can if they consume hallucinogens. How do you explain that?
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It seems to me that the current emphasis on cognitive speed probably confuses the issue. Are there any items on an IQ test that a typical person with an average score would *never* be able to solve even if they really wanted to and could spend days or weeks or months trying?
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"emphasis on cognitive speed probably confuses the issue" This bugs me because we know via protocol analysis that different people use their minds differently and that this is fractal. Speed and IQ are path contingent and fluid all the way down.
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I taught myself. Had to start with lines and go from there.
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