Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 17:26:23 01/27/98
I wonder how much intelligent an average and concrete guy -and so the kind of human that must be used to define general attributes of "human being"- is in all the aspects that people here think so important to define "intelligence". Is not only speed calculation what common people seem to lack, but also logic, even simple clear judgements and of course what you meet in them 99 times of 100 is a very poor if at all existent creativity. Is a kind of joke that obstinate insistence in "creativity" as a clue of human intelligence when in fact creativity is the most difficult element to find in an average brain. What I want to say is that a good standard of intelligence cannot be stablished so easily and calmly using our poor intelligence. If we put aside people really smart -say, people beyond 140 IQ-, what rest is very humble and the fact that this poverty is capable to express himself in a wide range of things does not mean nothing in his favour. Yes, we are stupid in a great scope of matters. That does not make us intelligent at all, but only increases the numbers of mistakes we can do. Or are we stablish as an standard of "human intelligence" the intelligence of people that in fact is far beyond the average standard of intelligence? If we take a sample from common folk and then we take his intellectual perfomances as a measure of what that famous Human Intelligence is, you begin to think much better would be not to do that sad exercize at all an even a hand calculator begins to seems a lot smarter. Or in another words: would you take a sample of paraplexic people to evaluate what an artificial android could do in a 100 meters race?
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