Fact or Fiction: When It Comes to Intelligence, Does Brain Size Matter?Kayt Sukel
an elephant's brain is only about 1.4 times larger than expected for an animal of a similar size. In fact, when using this metric, human beings do have the highest level of intelligence of any species, but as
Arthur R. Jensen [Jen98], a leading researcher in human intelligence, suggests ``as a heuristic hypothesis'' that all normal humans have the same intellectual mechanisms and that differences in intelligence are related to ``quantitative biochemical and physiological conditions''. I see them as spe...
aLeft alone, that finding would not be particularly disturbing. Morton has been thoroughly discredited by now. Scientists do not believe that brain size reflects intelligence, and Morton 's brand of raw racism is out of style. But Gould goes on to say that Morton ' s story is only " an...
In fact, this seems to be a weird feature of “higher” intelligence:15 we are prone to doing things the hard way and failing to avoid unnecessary stresses. So we probably do make some postural mistakes and develop bad habits, because we are careless, or because our big brains place too...
Current research has evidenced that many risk factors may contribute to the emergence of suicidal ideation and conducts in adolescence. Specific risk factors concerning adolescence include both the developmental conditions of the brain [21] and an array of psychosocial stressors including, among others,...
Systems intelligence – sensing the big picture and how things connect Benevolence – depth of commitment to not cause pain or suffering Integrity – ability to inspire/engender trust and loyalty Similar to creating a learning environment, building an organization that not only supports virtuous princip...
If the natural lifters know that they will never come even remotely close to the size and strength of their heroes, they would lose their motivation to train. What is the point of learning from a millionaire if you are not going to earn good money yourself? What is the point of...
But for ChatGPT we have to make a model of human-language text of the kind produced by a human brain. And for something like that we don’t (at least yet) have anything like “simple mathematics”. So what might a model of it be like? Before we talk...
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