Comments on: What Does a Smart Brain Look Like?: Inner Views Show How We Think

By: Fosca

Fosca — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:14:07 +0000

@helen – bring it!

By: crae

crae — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:11:24 +0000

I HATE THE CONCEPT OF INTELLIGENCE

I DESPISE IT

All brains are basically equal – they either work or they don’t. The brain is a tool that can be TRAINED to perform ANY general task. One of my biggest frustrations dealing with other people is when they hold the nonsensical believe that they are not intelligent. They become stuck in the ‘STUPID TRAP’ – a belief system which tells them they are not ‘intelligent’ because ‘intelligence’ is hard-wired, not from TRAINING. If someone can be convinced that they haven’t been blessed with the ‘intelligence’ gene, then that imposes all sort of VERY harmful self-imposed limitations upon that poor person

By: Nopke

Nopke — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:40:31 +0000

What about bodies … they will influence the brain in a massive way. If you observe people with different body sizes and structures you will also notice when interacting with them that they do work theirself, via their brain, different than yourself (if they have other body structures). A large body will need a way different brain system than small bodies .. etc etc.

That we all don’t work it the same way up there, in here, that was quite clear to most people I guess. it’s not even about how smart or intelligent and how they use it for different tasks .. daily life shows it all already. It’good .. otherwise we’d bore ourself stiff.

By: helen

helen — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:18:00 +0000

@fosca are you looking for a battle hun?

By: Lady Claire

Lady Claire — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:49:02 +0000

Smart is as smart does……

LC x

By: Samuel Pourasghar

Samuel Pourasghar — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:51:44 +0000

A smart brain I imagine would be pink and pulsating, but not grey like the term “grey matter” would suggest. I would also think that the effectiveness of a brain would be diminished slightly if you kept looking at it instead of keeping it safely in a cranium, under a hat even. In the dark.

By: Henry

Henry — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:46:14 +0000

leading to talk of a general ‘g’ factor in intelligence – as mentioned in the article. I should say I know psychologists who think that the research using scanning of brains doing different tasks, is complete nonsense – they say the statistics used is wonky.

Also I remember seeing different studies doing fMRI on Go ( the board game) players showing opposite results on which part of the brain is being used. And I’ve heard every possible permutation of the argument about gender differences in brain function – some say women are left brain dominant, some right-brain dominant, some that they use both sides equally. Very very dubious

By: Henry

Henry — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:41:34 +0000

This is another thing based on the idea of IQ tests measuring intelligence. You have to define what intelligence is – which it seems to me psychologists never do adequately. I think IQ tests just measuer your ability to do IQ tests (or that kind of puzzle) on that day. And you can practice and improve your skills at that kind of puzzle.

See Gardner on Multiple Intelligences – you touch on the idea above. But some psychologists then say that if you measure all the different kinds of intelligence then if someone is higher in one type (eg: spatial thinking) they are statistically more likely to b higher in another (like verbal thinking) etc

By: Fosca

Fosca — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:26:52 +0000

I’m a man who discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn. That’s what kind of man I am. You’re just a woman with a small brain. With a brain a third the size of us. It’s science

By: jojoes6969

jojoes6969 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:22:42 +0000

Oooh A SMART brain looks CLEVER to the NAKED eye! X