From: "Jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com>
To: Joscha Bach <,
Subject: Re:
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:15:36 +0000
think more of specialization, the effiecienvy of the group goes up as each memeber only needs to know one
job, intellignece might mean being able to do more than one job, . I also think that intelligence , or some
sort of knolwedge might form an economic system. . exchange, valuble info.. brains are like banks stores
values. lends or gives some of it currency to others in the form of useful info. etc
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 2:45 AM, Joscha Bach wrote:
This is fascinating. Could we get a quantitative measure on the cost of individual brains, with respect to
resource consumption and quality control? The former would be mostly brain size, i.e. how hard it is to feed it,
but also how long it takes to develop and train it. The latter would apply to individual differences in
intelligence etc. with roughly the same brain size.
Insect societies should be special, because the absence of individual chances for reproduction removes
evolutionary competition between them. Individual intelligence benefits the other members, too. In social
species where every individual has a chance of reproduction, individual intelligence in addition gives an edge
over competitors in the same population. Why would mob rule encourage lower intelligence in individuals?
We still have competition among the mobsters, so there is always an evolutionary pressure towards higher
intelligence.
Intelligence is a tool for many uses, it may be used for abstract problem solving or for power. The latter might
imply that being too intelligent is dangerous. If an individual is powerful, it might benefit from getting rid of
competition, especially smarter but currently less powerful potential rivals. In a species with social dominance
hierarchies, it might be a survival advantage for the vast majority to be either less smart than the ones in
power, or to be smart and totally disinterested in power. It is tempting to ponder if that could explain nerds, i.e.
people with high intelligence but low social skills and little interest in dominance.
> Am 18.06.2015 um 06:23 schrieb jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>:
> http://www.sciencedaily.cortheleases/2015/06/150616215956.htm seems that as populations grow,
indiv intelligence might go down , as mob rule becomes the norm. G as a speed measure . might also
assume that it takes 2 men with iq of something less than 100 to accomplish the same task in the same time as
an iindiv with an q of lets say 100.
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