Intelligence cannot be increased. IQ is a test score and that can increase but your not any smarter. Your example will create a damaged personality which can drop the score by 15 points or create a invalid test. But the inherent intelligence will be the same
So every change is 'progress'?
Almost every society in the ancient world was based on slavery and there was an abundance of slaves. Today, there may be an abundance of slaves but no society practices it in the open.
Are these slaves held legally?
"Man" Didn't Invent the Wheel; Only One Man Did
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Yes he did
Learning is not IQ. The Limbic system(LS) controls the prefrontal cortex. (PFC)Here is what I'm talking about
How Playing Piano Affects the Brain - Is Piano Good for the Brain?
Learn how playing piano affects the brain. Does playing piano improve a persons IQ or memory? Find out what neuroscientists are saying.
Scientists have found that playing music creates strong brain activity in both hemispheres, which increases activity in the corpus callosum (the bridge between the left and right hemispheres).
This allows messages to cross both sides of the brain through faster and more diverse routes. It is thought that this may allow musicians to solve problems more effectively and creatively in both academic and social settings.
Playing chess is another example.
10 Things Chess Does To Your Brain
Chess is one of the games that can boost brain health and has become more popular today due to quarantines brought by the pandemic crisis.Improves memory
Playing chess can improve memory because of its complex rules that the players have to remember when making a move and also uses memory recall in avoiding previous mistakes or remembering the playing style of the opponent. Good chess players have an excellent memory. It can significantly improve a person's memory and verbal skills, as well.
An oft-cited study in 1991 by Dr. Stuart Margulies suggests that school students who participated in playing chess have a significant increase in their reading performance. Kids from a district where average kids were tested below the national average, who participated in a chess program, have increased their performance in reading.
The prefrontal cortex is the last part of the brain that develops during adolescence. That rea is responsible for rational thinking, self-control, judgment, and planning. Since chess requires strategic and critical thinking, the game helps in the development of the prefrontal cortex, which helps adolescents to make better choices in all areas of their life to keep them from making irresponsible and risky choices.
Improves problem-solving skills
When playing chess, the players must think fast, and their problem-solving skills must be on point because the opponent constantly changes the parameters. According to a 1992 study in New Brunswick conducted on 450 fifth-grade students, those who played chess have significantly higher scores on tests than those who did not play chess.
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Playing chess activates the right side of the brain responsible for creativity, which unleashes originality among players. In a four-year study of students had them play chess, use computers, and do other things once a week for 32 weeks to determine which activity sparked more creativity.
The result shows that those kids who played chess scored higher than other groups. It also showed that these kids had achieved the highest scores in originality.
I get the sense that most posers on this site believe mankind to be progressing on one or all fronts, whether it be physiologically, morally, and/or intellectually.
Do you include yourself on these assumptions?
The more we learn from ancient civilizations, for example, the more we realize just how advanced they were.
Take prehistoric man as an example.
We have no idea who these people were or how they even built these megastructures, that in my mind blow away the pyramids in terms of sophistication and intellectual prowess.
They even found more accurate ways to measure right triangles than we use today
As for our moral development, we pride ourselves on knowing that slavery has been outlawed in most places around the world, but fail to see that slavery is more prevalent to day than at any other time in human history.
The World Counts
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But our political leaders spend all their time rehashing slavery when it was legal hundreds of years ago instead of addressing the slavery of today, all in the name of virtue signaling to voters that they care about the issue.
As one comedian I heard said, California is insane because they are paying for reparations to people who were never slaves, taken from people who never owned slaves, in a state that never had slaves.
If anything, mankind is devolving, especially considering how IQ levels are falling.
It’s official, we are getting dumber.
IQ levels are falling, and have been for decades, according to a new study.
The paper, co-authored by Bernt Bratsberg and Ole Rogeberg of the Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research in Oslo, Norway, looked at the IQ test results of more than 730,000 Norwegian men.
The men had all reported for national service between 1970 and 2009, for which a mandatory IQ test takes place.
Analysis showed that the men born in 1962 had higher scores than those born in 1991.
Those born in 1991 scored five points lower than those born in 1975, and three points lower than those born in 1962.
Creativity Is an Emotion
So slavery went from being legal to being illegal. Ignoring your diversion, I'd say that is progress.
Unstructured and Dysfunctional Grammar Leads to Unstructured and Dysfunctional Thought
I don't think rolling over a log was "invented".
I cant see your goal posts anymore.
what were/are they?
Math
