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People full of knowledge. More sadness.
People full of wisdom. More peace.
People full of wisdom. More peace.
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+1People full of knowledge. More sadness.
People full of wisdom. More peace.
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People full of knowledge. More sadness.
People full of wisdom. More peace.
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True. I think that way of thinking is more "Rationalism" and a culture than anything else. Ray Peat's definition of Rationalism reflects that of a high serotonin state for sure. But it is ironically a logically flawed way of thinking that is taught to the young people of Western culture in schools and reinforced in the media-social interactions. In such a culture if you hold very specific ideas you are automatically considered more intelligent than those who have other ideas. Also a scientist can have a far less functional brain than an athlete but the scientist will always be considered more intelligent within the culture.The definition of intelligence is debatable. Most people consider intelligence only in the "logical" sense, but it's well established that emotional intelligence (number of friends) is highly correlated with brain size and also happiness. Also real wisdom (detachment, calmness) as has been mentioned leads to happiness. "Logical" intelligence which is the only form of intelligence most people consider is probably very serotonergic which is why it's associated with mental illness.
At 15 day after birth the rats were clearly hypothyroid—the body weight was 28.8g. ―Francon
The most powerful natural molecule which destroys these structures is 2-methoxyestrogen. This is about 20 times more powerful than simple estrogen and ~40% as powerful as colchicine. The formation of 2-methoxyestrogen can be stopped by taking gallocatechin gallate—a polyphenol found in green tea—which inhibits the enzyme catachol-O-methyltransferase; this does not effect methylation anywhere else, except the methylation of 2-hydroxyestradiol and dopamine (and perhaps other catechols). The methylation of catechols is generally seen as a detoxification mechanism, but we also have sulfation and glucuronidation pathways which account for the majority of steroid elimination. It's not even clear how methylation can be considered a detoxification mechanism since it actually lowers solubility and increases affinity for lipids.These results suggest that microtubule formation during development requires the presence of thyroid hormones. ―Francon
I used to think that promoting green tea extracts was woo, but the in vitro science is rock solid—something that could account for the epidemiological findings which likely created the buzz in the first place. As far as I can tell, nobody has made the connection between gallocatechin gallate, 2-hydroxyestradiol methylation, and microtubule formation—although each half of the three-membered pathway has been well-established. The article that I found on green tea and memory directly implicated gallocatechin gallate, but the word "microtubule" appeared not once in the entire document....the results of this work may contribute to the understanding of the effects of thyroid hormones in brain development and in the ætiology of cretinism. ―Francon
Colchicine actually depolymerizes microtubules, and you could probably even get away with using the word "dissolve" to describe this process since it happens so quickly. It also has four methoxy groups. All powerful microtubule-dissolving drugs have methoxy groups (nocodazole and podophyllotoxin to name a few) attached to a planar ring. One theoretical chemist has speculated that the methoxylated ring of 2-methoxyestradiol intercolates inside of the microtubule and interposes itself between the stacked planar Try-indole and Tyr-phenol rings. Exactly how this impacts microtubule stabilization is open to speculation, but you would expect this to interfere with electron/light transmission.burning, "crawling", or tingling feeling in the skin
- difficulty with breathing when exercising
- headache
- muscle weakness
- numbness in the fingers or toes (usually mild)
- pain
- unusual tiredness or weakness ―https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/colchicine...
Good...From the Bible:
"And I set my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly; I realized that this also is striving after the wind. Because in much wisdom there is much grief, and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain."
-Ecclesiastes 1:17-18 (NASB)
Me tooI feel better now.
I had read that article. Thinking about this always makes me think of this Nirvana song.
I think you can be happy and creative-intelligent simultaneously, but not happy and intelligent like Sigmund Freud or Isaac Newton. There's a certain amount of seriousness, or gravity involved in thinking about along those lines. Perhaps that definition should be refined as mental discipline, or some such thing. I think the IQ test has a few math components, which are weighed heavily. Perhaps the main finding of such studies is that the people who designed the IQ tests themselves were generally unhappy and engineered the test accordingly: people who had climbed to the top of the authoritarian ψ–educational field and expect all future students to be similarly disciplined. There is an element of seriousness behind all of that, making sure—or atleast maintaining the impression—that students must not make mistakes. Without the element of importance, most of the kids would just play and mock the teacher.
But perhaps it can be largely-reduced to opiates and neurotransmitters? Cholinergic drugs always increase word recall and reaction time, while opiates generally interfere; Dopamine is usually seen as good, while serotonin not so much. Glutamate accelerates microtubule formation—the structures that probably are short-term memory. The longer-term, more ingrained nerves get myelinated microtubules. These things are getting built-up and broken-down all of the time, and many drugs interfere or accelerate this process. So choosing the right diet, environment, and habits are probably the smartest thing you can do—everything else could just follow from that. The only genetic defect that I've read about which interferes with IQ is Down's Syndrome, and this is actually from an enzyme polymorphism which leads to high homocysteine. This is also one of the most common findings in Alzheimer's. So . ..simply having a high-methionine and low B₆ diet could perhaps give anyone either subclinical Alzheimer's or subclinical Down's Syndrome—depending on severity. Of course, it would technically be called hyperhomocysteinuria; but the main agent is the same in both cases. The epidemiological results are so consistent that many cases of dementia (but not maybe not Alzheimer's)* could be renamed as age-related hyperhomocysteinuria, but this name implies obvious an inexpensive treatment modalities so it will never be formally-classified as such. In the same way, Down's Syndrome could just as easily be called cystathionine β-synthase-related homocysteinuria. Again, this implies an easy treatment and nobody in the Medical Establish can sell you the things you can do at home or buy from Amazon.com.
*Alzheimer's was originally defined histologically. Many cases of so-called "Alzheimer's" are really just Alzheimer's Presumed. The disease's founder, Alois Alzheimer, had diagnosed it based-on characteristic neurofibrillary tangles. Injecting rabbits with aluminum does the very same thing, and seems be the only way to create these in a short time period. Theoretically, lipid peroxidation in general could form similar tangles; homocysteine does this because it can form a stable free radical, but aluminum does this as well by displacing iron in addition to physically-crosslinking the highly-phosphorylated and microtubule-stabilizing τ-protein.
Nor should he. Your linguistic competence is only as high as the complexity of the most difficult language you can communicate in. Being able to speak somali, ebonics or other loose garbage-tier language adds roughly 0% intellectual bragging value to the assets of anyone who can also speak English, Spanish or any other comprehensive language. Me being able to learn basic English is no feat, but rather an inevitability, due to my native language being dozens of times more complex than yours. Do you think I had to deliberately STUDY english? HA!Peat pointed out the slum dog isn’t respected for speaking a second language by the one language intellectual.
For me IQ is possibly more accurate at testing potential psychopathology or mental rigidity within a society.
Do you think Bobby Fischer being better at chess than the ones who originally engineered the game somehow invalidates the point of the game? Do you have to be the tallest man in the world in order to determine the second tallest one? In order to measure anything, the only point that matters is how individuals perform in relation to others within the system, not how they perform in relation to the creator of the system. That is irrelevant.I have always found it curious that someone putting an IQ test together is less "intelligent" than the test taker in many cases.
Folks with Down syndrome vary widely on IQ tests --- how do you give an IQ test for an Alzheimer’s patient for example and take yourself serious after it.
I always find it amusing that people will speak about the crime rate or better still the murder rate of African Americans(while ignoring the history)being higher than white america yet the American army is predominantly white and has been involved in how many murders......
The kind of IQ test that a psychologist will typically give a patient (a REAL IQ test) has subcategories that have little to do with pattern recognition. I think Ray Peat has pointed out these subcategories as flaws in the test if I remember correctly.Nor should he. Your linguistic competence is only as high as the complexity of the most difficult language you can communicate in. Being able to speak somali, ebonics or other loose garbage-tier language adds roughly 0% intellectual bragging value to the assets of anyone who can also speak English, Spanish or any other comprehensive language. Me being able to learn basic English is no feat, but rather an inevitability, due to my native language being dozens of times more complex than yours. Do you think I had to deliberately STUDY english? HA!
More accurate than what? IQ test excels precisely at what it sets out to measure: pattern recognition. When other cognitive aspects remain identical, the one with superior pattern recognition capability is superior in ALL aspects of life compared to the one with inferior capability.
Do you think Bobby Fischer being better at chess than the ones who originally engineered the game somehow invalidates the point of the game? Do you have to be the tallest man in the world in order to determine the second tallest one? In order to measure anything, the only point that matters is how individuals perform in relation to others within the system, not how they perform in relation to the creator of the system. That is irrelevant.
A better question is: what would drive you attempt to measure the cognitive capability of someone who you know to be cognitively deficient? What is there to gain? Just tick the retard box, put them on welfare and forget about it!
Yes, this IS amusing. But not for the reasons you think. This is an unfortunately deranged equivalence. If you are not ashamed, I urge you to be.
Your general sentiment is right: IQ hardly matters. Yet, there's no need to go to such lengths in order to apologize for your perceived lack in IQ score. Cultivate drive instead of excuses and you will easily over-perform any ****88 up sub-genius.
I dont think so my friendmy iq test is more real than your iq test
You're right. Internet IQ tests are much more comprehensive.I dont think so my friend