Bigmac4u
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RE: Vox Day's Politics and Culture Blog: Vox Popoli
Quote: Extreme intelligence (the type you see in geniuses) is the result of immune system issues related to viruses embedded in our genome that express themselves if the immune system gets weak. A weaken immune system early in life leads to neurodevelopmental disorders classified as Autism. Mostly it is the severity of the brain alterations that cause the “disorder” to be diagnosed. The viruses induce hyperactive brain disorders due to how they have to manipulate the immune system to replicate. The viruses specifically target the PKR pathway to increase their replication rates and the byproduct of this dysregulation of the protein replication rates effect the neural transmitters and synapse formation rates (why memories encode too many details and trigger too easily, creating repeating behaviors (same thing shows up in PTSD patients). This leads to OCD and anxiety traits (something is wrong mindset) as the immune system upregulates. It also creates photographic memory in the host, photographic memory makes it possible to make novel connections since creativity is the associations between existing ideas and concepts. Genius is mostly connecting dots which many people can spot but can't connect. Innovation is more of a problem solving technique applied to available resources and usually that is just time and energy. You can create anything with time and energy.
In general the virus hosting gene for autism failures in healthy individuals result in more inhuman aggression (detached, no empathy) and genocide. When the virus switches the brain to become OCD/autistic, there’s no way to disengage the resulting “will to reproduce” and the brain becomes a slave to go after wealth and power and is pushed into wanting more and more power, whatever that is to the person (learning ever more, getting famous, political power, becoming rich, etc). So in other words, you have the activation of “genome” code that is normally suppressed but is more than likely being blocked by an active virus that is attempting to block how the immune system is attacking it but it is helping out one of the most ancient viruses that effected our human ancestors. Again, the genome mutations can alter how the immune system suppresses parts of the genome from generation to generation resulting in this embedded virus being more active in some people as soon as their immune system is slightly compromised vs others require multiple compromising viruses/health issues.
The long term impact of how the viruses alter the brain can be huge, i.e. sensory level delusional activation due to regional overactivation and none coherent patterns across the cerebral cortex, which show up when too many different regions of the brain activation simultaneously. You don’t feel sick and BUT YOUR body is over reacting to everything so you don’t get sick but you’re burning through nutrients too fast. If you're wealthy enough to eat super healthy/nutrient rich foods, the body is happy to handle the virus… It’ll eventually lead to a cancer (Steve Jobs) or increase the risk for cancer. The higher you go in the ranks or the hyper intelligent people, those are the ones you see it in most often.
Quote:The human brain is not intelligence, it’s a survival mechanism optimized for selecting immune and other compatibilities. In other words, cognition is an illusion.. the human brain is just a feedback algorithm, simulator based on the feedback. It’s quite eloquent if you understand feedback loops. Even better if understand the algorithmic pattern programming from the genetic levels, biological differential stability network.
Nothing humans do is complicated or very complex, at least in terms of systems... lots of refinements and integrated ideas, but nothing is truly complex, all by itself. Nobody just invented the fission or other types of devices, it was a simply refinement of knowledge that lead to the discovery and further refinement that lead to the devices being usable.
Same goes for everything else. Time and refinement is all the inventions in this world. Building on other people's time and refinements. People for the most part act the same way they did millennia ago, they can't organize more than 200 people at a time-place, without breaking apart into subunits. If not organized by a "master" respected by the workers, they aren't productive and fail to be productive.
We grow into a context of demands that then causes the growth of the required level of complexity to manage the knowledge and acquisition of details to fill in the domains. For the most part, this means that the “lazy intelligence” only executes when it is necessary for survival.
There are just 2 areas where superior intelligence is potentially enabling:
1. In (partially) understanding certain useful hypercomplex things like health and physics - that first awaited modern tools like microscopes to observe them, and
2. Competing with others for procreation, wealth, power, etc. HOWEVER, Game Theory dictates that most decisions in "games" be made on a weighted random basis, and further, Nash's famous equilibrium theorem tells us that if the other guy has selected his weights correctly - that it doesn't make any difference if you get them right or wrong. As a result, limitless "intelligence" provides little if any competitive advantage, beyond the low threshold of simply understanding what the game is all about.
I once sat down with a winning high-school football coach, and we looked at various common situations that would seem to benefit from game theory computation. Amazingly, his off-the-top-his-head weights were spot-on to my carefully computed weights. We only looked at 2x2 zero-sum situations. This demonstrated that there would be NO advantage in having computer assistance. A better random number generator might have helped - but seeing the coach throw dice before deciding each play would have been pretty demoralizing to the players. As in spread spectrum communication, weighted random is as good as limitless intelligence can even approach.
I have already written an online book that explains how people with barely genius IQs can efficiently engineer true cures for most seemingly incurable health conditions - as I have done for various "incurable" conditions that friends and members of my family have contracted. The secret therein is the careful application of an advanced form of the Scientific Method. Sure, it took a really smart guy to figure this out, but now pretty much anyone can read it and learn to do just as well with it as any prospective artificial general intelligence (AGI) could ever do.
Quote:Heritability of IQ. Although the word “intelligence” has no single definition, it is universally associated with terms such as knowledge, mental capability, reasoning, judgment, imagination, cognitive function, and occasionally, adaptation. Over the years, the most common notion with regard to “intelligence” is that it simply is a desirable, advantageous, and sought-after attribute.
Studies on the heritability of intelligence started over a century ago can be dismissed with new research in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Neuroscience connecting the brain to the immune system. Immune molecules are actually defining how the brain is functioning. So, what is the overall impact of the immune system on our brain development and function?
The truth is that if you get a particularly nasty virus when you are young, then you are a prime suspect for developing the overactive brain that is edging towards the schizophrenia brain patterns depending on which proteins are over or under produced once the virus starts operating it’s control functions.
After digging through the research on various "geniuses" throughout history, I learned a higher percentage of them had childhoods that more than likely resulted in a similar over expressed memory encoding activity in their brain due to viruses and the resulting anxiety of the heightened immune system pushed them to solve problems they had in front of them, any and all problems!!! they could think about because that is how the brain works when it is stressed - it tries to solve problems. However, the amount of energy required to maintain that excessive brain activity and immune system will likely kill you. I don’t think humans were meant to ponder the whole universe their entire lives, aka philosophize and grandiosize their own take on what it means to be alive… they are meant to learn new things and how to survive but the brain isn’t supposed to be on all the time.
The hereditarian theory of IQ is basically a math equation based on conjecture from old sociological and psychological papers. Heritability is defined as the proportion of variance in a trait which is attributable to genetic variation within a defined population in a specific environment. What we immediately notice is a long list of enormous variations in the tested IQs of genetically indistinguishable European peoples across temporal, geographical, and political lines, variations so large as to raise severe doubts about the strongly genetic-deterministic model of IQ favored by white spermicide and perhaps also quietly held by many others.
Consider, for example, the results from Germany obtained prior to its 1991 reunification. Lynn and Vanhanen present four separate IQ studies from the former West Germany, all quite sizable, which indicate mean IQs in the range 99–107, with the oldest 1970 sample providing the low end of that range. Meanwhile, a 1967 sample of East German children produced a score of just 90, while two later East German studies in 1978 and 1984 came in at 97–99, much closer to the West German numbers.
These results seem anomalous from the perspective of strong genetic determinism for IQ. To a very good approximation, East Germans and West Germans are genetically indistinguishable, and an IQ gap as wide as 17 points between the two groups seems inexplicable, while the recorded rise in East German scores of 7–9 points in just half a generation seems even more difficult to explain.
Can we really increase our intelligence? The answer is yes. It's basically adjusting our thought-flow to work millions of times more efficiently. A renowned article published in the journal Nature by Price and her colleagues challenged this immutable view of intelligence. The study had 33 adolescents, who were 12 to 16-years-old when the study initiated. Price and her team gave them IQ tests, tracked them for four years, and then tested them again with the same measurement tools. The fluctuations in IQ were outstanding: not about a couple points, but 20-plus IQ points. These changes in IQ scores, according to the researchers, were not random — they tracked elegantly with structural and functional brain imaging. Thus, there is also an important group of scientists that maintain that many of the changes in IQ are correlated to changes in the environment, particularly schooling.
To sum up, the old paradigms are crumbling under the onslaught of new research. Neuroscientists have, in a sense, simply taken over the elite, almost clerical office once held by analysts. It is not fully clear what intelligence is, and hence how to directly increase it. Nonetheless, we can consider intelligence, for practical purposes, as a starting point in life. I tend to use the term "smart" for people who are quick witted and use what they know with high accuracy - smart enough to pass tests that require quick and correct answers. Remember "computer" was a term originally applied to human workers doing math work. Smart or knowledgeable or intelligent all just apply to utilizing what is learned to some set of problems.. Knowledgeable is just how much one learns and can reference, not necessarily useable level of knowledge though as so many college students seem to demonstrate. And intelligence, without a qualifier, is just a term applied to knowing enough to survive in an environment; any agent that doesn't make the cut isn't very intelligent.
Quote:Europe’s rise to prominence can be best understood as emerging from the need to survive. As ineffective geographical boundaries and closeness in proximity brought various subgroups in the region into contact with one another, the drive for resources created extensive conflict and bloodshed among regional factions. As these battles became the litmus test for who would ultimately survive, and who would die off, innovations in military equipment and warfare played a primary role. The discovery of gunpowder from the Chinese introduced more efficient means of warfare, such as explosives and firearms. With new forms of production being uncovered, such as smelting to derive metals for weaponry, it became clear that those who controlled these natural resources would have a far greater likelihood of survival. This resulted in both the expansion of well-organized European groups into broader civilizations, as well as providing insight into the need to control the means of production to emerge successful.
The population of Europe also played an immense role in the continuity of advancement and expansion. Growing from 200 million in the 1800s, to roughly 500 million by the 1900s (more than half the world's population at the time), this rapid increase led to the development of cohesive civilizations, which consequently raised the likelihood of survival for those operating in a group mentality. The ability to band together towards a common goal ultimately became the differentiating factor in the region. Those who developed the most advanced societies reaped the benefits of military innovations, strength in numbers, and social and scientific progress, while those who did not were unable to survive against the more sophisticated powers. Similar to the concept of nest building employed by ants, early Europeans quickly discovered that cooperation and collective empowerment, would be critical to further expanding and advancing their societies. With these civilizations forming and growing immensely, the communal setting promoted the concepts of specialization and task delegation to specific members of the society, so as to increase their chances of survival, as well as making their social, political, and economic systems more efficient.
Collective farming and domestication of animals led to increases in survival rates among groups that implemented a shared system. This behavior led to an array of advancements among communal societies, some of which expanded into the establishment of marketplaces, artistic expression, and an expansion of education through school systems. At the onset, integrating these communal concepts was a challenge, but as they began to understand how to navigate new innovations, it allowed for a more effective assimilation of social institutions.
As the modern world provides insight into the significance of the European continent in creating the frameworks for future civilizations, the one thing that has remained constant throughout history is the struggle to resist and survive any external threats. This idea ultimately allowed the European continent, and the groups which inhabited it, to overcome the challenges they faced, and establish solutions that would better help them ensure the longevity of their society.
Sorry, his http://culturewhiz.org/users/culturewhiz explanations work a lot better for me.
(This post was last modified: 03-10-2018 07:11 AM by Bigmac4u.)
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