Theme: Agency

DEMONSTRATED INTELLIGENCE
The brain is relatively simple operationally. Neurons are quite individually simple, but can produce profound complexity in combination, in layers that peform different functinos, in microcolumns that are the primary processing unit, and and nerual colums tha combine them, and brain regions that connect to one another.
Neural performance follows the same formula as undersea cables (and all cables for that matter) so the combination of neural organization, neural development, balance between white and grey matter, resulting resistance, and available resources (chemical balance, or health) determine how successful are ‘computations’, connections, durability, and therefore pattern development and memory.
So IQ is a measure of generalized neural response time by testing a series of faculties divided by age to compensate for the fact that we tend to learn more with age. These tests include subtests for pattern recogition and learned knowlege and the intersection of both.
There is a slight difference in the organization (development and interconnections) in male and female brains. First, bilateral creatures with bilaterial brains must find a means of decision making (priority) in order to time actions. Second the means of doing so has evolved largely to reflect male predator over time and bias to the empirical prediction of environmental state, vs female prey in time (empathizing) and bias to interpersonal prediction of emotional state.
This results in the feminine empathizing/verbal vs the masculine systematizing/spatial, and the female hyperconsumptive in time and male hypercapitalizing over time – both of which reflect needs of the reproductive strategy of each (female her offspring) male (brothers and cousins and their territorial resources and collection of females and their offspring).
And it also results in masculine pursuit of responsibility for commons in order to obtain status despite risks, and female pursuit of hyperconsumption and irresponisiblity for commons by creating demands from men, as a means of evading risk.
The result is that men invent everything of consequence other than children, and women in politics has been a catastrophe, even if women in the economy has been beneficial.
Now all of us get better at what challenges and fulfills us without causing us to fail. Ergo despite IQ improving learning times, people with different IQ’s pursue interests that vary so that they satisfy challenge and fulfillment to the best of theire ability and opportunity.
And so the guy with a 105 IQ that fixes cars is going to be better at it over time than the guy who fixes or advances complex mathematical formulae. Because both would fail at one another’s jobs. The lower IQ at the ability, and the higher IQ at interst.
Ergo DEMONSTRATED INTELLIGENCE is like applied science: it’s how you apply the resources of your intelligence and knowledge successfully or not.

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