Well, I mentioned how I can figure things out incredibly faster than my brother can, but one thing that he is obsessed with (math), he completely destroys me at figuring our answers before I can because he likes to do them, he does them alot more than I do. It's the same exact atmosphere to where you play a game. The more you are dedicated aswell as competitive. The more you apply your time to studying the MU's and to take that knowledge to make you an even more solid player-- you definately will rise alot faster than people who are too busy trying to make a low tier viable for tournament XD
Do you know about how the brain functions? Not everyone can be the same as everyone else. Some people have a different degree of dominance over their brain's activities, whether it be left, right, or both hemispheres. Your brother is very logical from what you're telling me, in how he can figure out math problems easily, thus he is either left-hemisphere dominant. If you were someone who loved order, organization, perfection, then you'd be a right-hemisphere dominant person. There's also people that are dominant to a degree on both sides of the hemisphere due to how they were brought up during infancy, as well as people who don't develop either one enough so that they can be called dominant (example: mentally ******** people).
How does this factor into intelligence? Well, the way I simplify it is this... Think of your hemisphere's dominance capacity being 100% dominance at maximum. Your left hemisphere can go up to 100% dominance, and your right hemisphere can go up to 100% dominance as well (kind of like being either right-handed or left-handed). Certain people develop one of their hemispheres' activity further than the other due to certain factors during their upbringing, while they don't do the same to the other half. You could visualize this as, for example, left-hemisphere dominance being 70% and right-hemisphere dominance being 30%. This would make the person a very analytical person, good with patterns, solving problems and the like. Same thing would apply to the right-hemisphere dominant people, they could have balanced their hemisphere dominance during their upbringing to whatever level possible... Now, how about people dominant in both areas? Say you have someone who is equally analytical as creative (say, 60% left-hemisphere and 60% right-hemisphere). This person has much more brain activity than the 70%/30% example I listed before, from the looks of it! If you gave these two guys IQ tests and scored them in the end, the 60%/60% guy will score higher than the 70%/30% guy because of his level of dominance. He can be both analytical and creative. The score itself is just a score of the test with the time elapsed since they started taken into account, so it is a measure of mental dominance. Who do you think will score higher? The person who dominates all areas equally, or the person who only excels in one?
This is where my definition of intelligence comes from.
Mentally ******** people still have a brain, it was abused and shiveled up into something less because of irresponsible actions that were vicarious. It's the fact we all have a brain, we all can solidify this reality when it's completely made out of atoms. We all have the ability pre-existently to fathom every sense of knowledge we choose to collect.
What? No, they cannot, hence why they're called mentally ********. They have a brain, but it is dysfunctional, and cannot do the things we can, including learn at a pace as fast as ours. This is why they have special classes for special students in pre-college schools (elementary, Jr high, high), because they cannot learn and apply things at the same pace as the rest of the students, they have to take their time in everything and have teachers specialized in simplifying topics for them to understand and digest properly. It is a matter of intelligence, they are less efficient than people without neurological defects at obtaining, processing, storing and recalling information. It's not a matter of whether intelligence is real or not, this isn't a philosophical debate,
this is an irrefutable fact.
Sources in case you decide to learn instead of talk about what your opinions are:
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KidsHealth.org > What "Mental ***********" means
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ProjectIDEALonline.org > Mental ***********
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audiblox2000.com > History of learning Disabilities
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howstuffworks.com > What constitutes a person's IQ?
No, they were dismantled. They still have a brain that still operates just as much as ours, it is only handicapped. To really say that we are ''intelligent'' compared to them is a low-blow. It's not their fault. I'm very sure if we didn't have these chemicals in our food, smoking, drinking, etc, we wouldn't be seeing a bunch of these people. I sometimes think they are much stronger than we are, to live in this reality like they were some kind of bug to be squashed. I believe that being simple is one of the strongest abilities to have. Knowledge is neutral. Intelligence isn't neutral, and it's just like what I said before: It's no different than a man acting more powerful just because he is holding a gun.
No, you are wrong and here's my 'why'. We are more intelligent than them, because we can process data faster, hence the term
intelligence. It is not a low blow, it is a fact without flowers or sprinkles. How else can I make this simpler than to avoid sugarcoating and being straightforward? Why do they have a different lifestyle than ours, if they're capable of the same things we are? What's with the special classes in schools dedicated solely to them? Are you saying a person with mental *********** can learn as fast as a non-mentally ******** person? There's a reason why they call it a "handicap", it's not a just a funny word that people throw around for fun, it means they need extra external help in order to live the way we do. We hear of them making great achievements, but most of us, if not all, could achieve those same things easily. It's only an achievement for them because the effort it takes them to reach that goal is far greater than ours, due to their mental disability. They need more time to learn and digest information than we do, because they have a serious learning disability. They learn and apply things slower than us non-mentally handicapped people do. They are intelligent, but not as intelligent as non-mentally handicapped people.
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IQTest.com > Information about low IQ scores
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about.com > IQ Tests used in Assessments for Learning Disabilities
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emedicine.medscape.com > More about Mental ***********
Lol.. No. Wikipedia is only using intelligence, and doctors are only using it because that is what they labelled it as. You CAN'T measure INTELLIGENCE. It doesn't EXIST.
prove that it doesn't exist. Hand me some sources of people who have said the same thing as you and have conducted research/explained in a way it has persuaded many. From what I can see, you have not shown any proof at all that intelligence is an illusion, but instead
you keep repeating your own thoughts that you randomly decided to post on SmashBoards for who knows what reason without knowing ANYTHING AT ALL regarding the basis behind intelligence. You do not know how to argue your point, good sir, and it doesn't seem like you like to immerse yourself in information to correct yourself either, since out of this entire thread, you're the only one who agrees with yourself, everyone else is disagreeing with you.
Show me some proof, I can be persuaded. I'm not a wall, I can move.
Also, if you think about it.. Doctors are full of **** sometimes. I mean really.. They really called people hypercondriacs because they think they have every symptom of a variety of illnesses? Psh! I lol every time when I hear people use this term. They are ****ing human beings who either are confused and are worried they might possibly have something, or they secretly want to be sick because that is the only time people notice them in their eyes.
As far as I'm aware, that IS what hypochondriac means.
PubHealth said:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002216/
Hypochondria is a belief that physical symptoms are signs of a serious illness, even when there is no medical evidence to support the presence of an illness.
People with hypochondria are overly focused on their physical health. They have an unrealistic fear of having a serious disease. This disorder occurs equally in men and women.
The way people with hypochondria think about their physical symptoms can make them more likely to have this condition. As they focus on and worry about physical sensations, a cycle of symptoms and worry begins, which can be difficult to stop.
It is important to realize that people with hypochondria do not purposely create these symptoms (malingering). They are unable to control the symptoms.
People who have a history of physical or sexual abuse are more likely to have this disorder. However, this does not mean that every person with a hypochondria disorder has a history of abuse.
Looks like it's just what you said. I guess you DO believe in hypochondria, eh? The underlined part of your quote is referring to
malingering. I'm not gonna quote it though, I don't want to make my post too long or stray too far from the topic of intelligence.
Yes, intelligence is ''MAN-MADE''. I rest my case there. Intelligence is nothing but another mental weapon people use to appear stronger than others. What you have is knowledge. Not intelligence. You exercise your brain more. So the **** what. You still are gathering knowledge and applying your own subconscious web of information--that makes you who you are today--into a physical form that other minds can interpret into their own different variety of subconscious web of information that makes them who they are.
You build knowledge because you have the intelligence to do so. If you didn't have intelligence, you'd be a tree or a rock or something. You wouldn't be able to learn anything.
Intelligence is your ability to obtain, process, store and recall information efficiently. This is a VERY good definition, VERY simple, I'm sure that if people didn't tl;dr my post after I post this and they'd be as serious as me, they'd quote that and say "there you go, a great definition right there".
I slightly feel like you wrote all of this as if intelligence is 100% real, when it's clearly not. You are defending the wrong term. It's knowledge. It's well-being. It's exercising the brain. It's being clear-minded, and free from chemicals, poisons, smoking, drinking etc. ALL of that can affect us, and make us appear like we are on different levels.
Says the guy who can't even prove a point.
Keep feeding your ego that intelligence is real -.-
More like, "keep trying to help this poor soul realize he's wrong and set him in the right path".
EDIT: On second thought, after looking at your location, I'd much rather not continue this discussion. Seems that you do believe in intelligence, but you decided to be an
ignoramus.
