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I love his voice- his intonation and all. The speech is ageless.
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I think that you have to be careful to assume that the ability to presume hypotheticals is not at some other cost. There is a necessary lack of a link to the physical world in order to perform those conceptual calculations, and most of what we do is not an academic exercise. I think that there is a difference between knowing something intellectually and knowing it emotionally, and I think that this emotional knowledge might compete with hypothetical imaginations.
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watching on at 1.5 speed crew!
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This guy is full of it. We owe all our intelligence to people who lived before agrarian society. Just because we have more time and access to information doesn't make us any smarter. Plus, the IQ test isn't a reliable way to judge intelligence, and most neuroscientists don't use it. We stand on the shoulders of our ancestors. They did the hard work, and our kids will stand on ours. Concepts have to be introduced before people can change. I don't know anyone who lives today, that has made as important of a discovery as learning how to control fire, or paint the first picture. They will give a doctorate to anyone these days. Never the less, I do appreciate his analysis of our tendency to fall for false flag events.
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It would be interesting to see how much(if at all) our cognitive capacities to deal with the concrete world have diminished.
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I thought it was Rudyard Kipling that said that bit about the colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady.
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IQ tests only measure how well someone does on an IQ test. They are culturally and class biased, subject to profound practice effects. Current tests reflect a test score biased education system.
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KKK grandpa
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AND YOU'LLL NEVERRR SEEE ME COMING
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I love the way this man speaks! So much information he gives in this and really something to think about
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Fantastic! On his last points, the lack of knowledge of history from young adults has severely dampened their civic/political analysis.
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His speech and the main idea was so good but with some wrong details " he don't know any thing about muslims" .
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Very disappointed with the Islamic example. It is ironic he says that younger generations don't read history or politics because he clearly hasn't read the Quran yet he gives examples about what's in it and what's not. I was enjoying the talk until he mentioned that idiotic scenario about the Muslim daughter getting raped...
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How old is this guy? He says his father was born in 1885.
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who is this man
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in fact Quran doesn't say to kill your raped daughter, I guess a "moral philosopher" is a cognitive demanding profession also so he had to dig in deeper before saying that.
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I will never trust any psychologist.
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The end of that, in my opinion made it the best ted talk Ive ever heard.....Second to Graham Hancock of course.
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Huh. You know when my intellectual capabilities were tested I scored in the 95th percentile for verbal comprehension. One of the subsets of that category includes the ability to make connections between concepts and things. And I remember the testing for it included a section where she would ask "how is _ like __?" At first they were similar things, but then they became more and more unrelated. But I was able to come up with something for all of them. (For example: "how is music like the tide?" I responded "they both go up and down, and they both have waves.") I thought it was because I'm creative, but this video puts it in a different perspective.
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IQ tests prove how good people are at IQ tests. Just talking about this subject proves people like these are not appropriate to talk about human intelligence.
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