Thanks, Krisi, for the fresh exposition of velvet fullness.
La semplicità colla geometria...
"Intelligence comes largely from having the genetic potential and continuously interacting with material that is slightly above one's current level of functioning."
That's quite a pinoneering thought with a lot of potential dominance. Never muffle that sort of fluid intelligence
. You shall tell us how this might work in the near future. Soon enough hopefully.
Continuity here does not have to be that monotonous, of course. It can be highly twisted or discrete too (for some), especially for more abstract forms of reflexive, bicameral thinking. That involves more spontaneity, glimpsing at a certain threshold of computation, representation, and manipulation.
Also, I strongly remember one case of self-learning other than that. It's highly exceptional and withdrawn, and has something to do with cognitive-verbal dissociation, as opposed to the prevalent system of learning/reading: LOGOCENTRISM (such as in the typical classroom learning, through reading books). I must say that I learned language and mathematics this way too, as a child, through such 'mental ruining' (with rather severe deconstruction and fuzzy, neutrosophic denial, never with simple logical acceptance).
Also, when it comes to intelligence, people still need to consider whether consciousness is an emergent, self-organizing property of the prehistoric 'naked neuron' of evolution theory or not. There are also ideas from Artificial Intelligence about a possible mechatronic equivalent of the cerebral cortex. These might rather be narrow as AI experts tend to easily equate intelligence with computation. The banal part of this, as some say, is that if consciousness is indeed emergent, past a certain classical threshold, then it doesn't even take the polymeric DNA to arrive at Thinking.
I also remember reading Jaynes' recreational book (quite long ago): The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Consider that case too.
That's mostly about intelligence... what about character? Ancestor worship?
But still, I'm tempted to say that life is 'basically female' (remember Jurassic Park): a few species of lizards (even mammals) can actually (in the wild, not just in the lab) have offspring without the male (Y) chromosome (chromosomal trans-location) at all, and certainly without being hermaphrodites. In other words, simply through the self-replication and enzymal self-stimulation of the mt-DNA. (Sure, all the offspring will be female.)
My crude theory is this:
Genetics can be represented as a constitutive matrix with diagonal maternal unitary elements (basically 'expansive' and 'receptive'), and off-diagonal paternal elements and residual maternal elements (acquired from the 'contractive' paternal line of the mother). This is such that evolution, whether micro or macro, isn't possible without the off-diagonal elements.
Anyway, a bit far off, the number four is interesting when it comes to the parallels between biology and physics: the four nucleobases of the DNA (A, G, C, T) and the RNA (A, G, C, U), and the four fundamental forces/fields of physical interaction: gravity, electromagnetism, and the weak and strong nuclear interactions (chromodynamics).
142857's theory:
"My theory is that IQ tests and aptitude tests are probably quite good at estimating the actual intelligence of "NT" types."
That's one globe of a nice conjecture, too. That's also my belief. With all intellectual honesty and independence, plus a little bluntness, I don't easily take any of the present methods for measuring IQ seriously. It is overly pedantic (in the NT sense) and can be grossly misleading especially for non-NT's, and especially when Human Cognition hasn't been entirely mapped out. We don't even know how to test the 'IQ' of a savant yet: they're still studying the architectural circuitry and cognition of the autistic mind, with incremental progress at best. I don't mean how to get the actual number based on a certain method, but how as in 'how to make one genuinely, readily testable'.
To be less serious and threatening, we have even just begun to study how human cognition works in case of mental rotation. Like rotating the YAH (You Are Here) map: it has been recently discovered that the S-N (South-North) representation (orientation) could be more amiable to the general cognition than the usual N-S (North-South) representation. Especially in EMERGENCY situations, for instance when a building is on fire and immediate evacuation is needed. We could even revolutionize aviation this way too (through cognitively amiable gadgets). (That was in my mother's dissertation, some time back.)
Do forgive my dyspraxia, I cannot write the way Krisi architecturally does :lol:. Different geometries. Thank neuronal evolution for her.
