Poll: Are Humans Smart?
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Instincts can not be learned. The above is actually intelligence because she would react on what she knows.The_root_of_all_evil said:
Instincts are more along the lines of you must eat every day or your body may be starved. To crap someplace other then where you drink stuff like that. Unspoken things your body instantly does without you having to actually put forth effort.
We'll always be creatures of instinct; we've just found a definition of intelligence that puts us at the top.
I was going to say yes, but then it occurred to me, "Why, yes, there are indeed people arguing that humans, as a race, are stupid."
I don't know about you guys, but generally, when someone asks me "Are you stupid?" I say no.
I don't agree and then give them reasons why.
Or maybe I do.
Darn it.
I don't know about you guys, but generally, when someone asks me "Are you stupid?" I say no.
I don't agree and then give them reasons why.
Or maybe I do.
Darn it.
So what you are saying is we have the capacity to be intelligent but humans a lone are not born smart. You sir use logic. You are smart.infernovolver said:
Well, I am utterly disgusted at the elitism than some of the posters displayed. Actually it was as extreme as talking about the human race like if they weren't part of it. I can't really feature that. When you think about it, there's a boatload of elitism all around this site anyways. There has to be a complex of something...somewhere.
Not exactly. But I'll take the compliment. What I'm saying is a person can have their individual views, knowledge, so on and so forth, but collectively, humanity does not utilize this knowledge in a way that could be considered smart. Humanity is an egotistical, destructive, uncaring, ignorant species. While knowledge is among them, collectively, they do not use this intellect to the ultimate potential it should be used for. Thus, they harm each other, themselves, other species, the environment, and inevitably will cause their own destruction.
Oh yeah, to lanostos, if it was as extreme as talking about the human race as if they weren't apart of it? Not exactly like I don't realize I'm human, I'm more of a misanthropist myself.
Oh yeah, to lanostos, if it was as extreme as talking about the human race as if they weren't apart of it? Not exactly like I don't realize I'm human, I'm more of a misanthropist myself.
Humans are intelligent, defiantly, just look at what we've managed to accomplish.
But Smart ? I don't bloody think so. Take smoking as a fair example. Everyone knows it's bad for you, and yet, in full knowledge that it'll make you pretty damn sick in later life, people are still puffing away 220/30 a day.
So no, people are not smart.
But Smart ? I don't bloody think so. Take smoking as a fair example. Everyone knows it's bad for you, and yet, in full knowledge that it'll make you pretty damn sick in later life, people are still puffing away 220/30 a day.
So no, people are not smart.
OK...so you can't learn that in a combat situation you get the hell out of the way immediately?Bulletinmybrain said:
Fire a gun in a crowd and see how few do anything but go "Uhhh?"; only the trained soldiers will immediately go for cover.
Intelligence would be to question if there was actually a food shortage. Simply storing food is instinctual.
And as for the 'Don't crap where you eat', Cats know that. However, a number of African villages don't. And Dogs don't care because they're also coprovores.
What is unspoken for us maybe perfectly acceptable for others; that's the nub of how you can't judge intelligence.
Countries with a mostly rural population will score lower on IQ tests because they don't have the abundance of straight lines that are a main component to 'normal' IQ tests.
In visual tests that rely on camouflage though, they'll score a lot higher than we would.
I should be shot for saying we are not creatures of instinct no longer. After rereading my post i'm a freaking idiot and i'm not taking in the whole world into account.The_root_of_all_evil said:
Some humans are just stupid. There are some exceptionally smart Humans out there, look at what we have accomplished. We have, flown, been to the moon, the sea floor, computers have become household machines. That is rather amazing if you ask me.
We also have explored the inside of the inside of the things that make up everything if i'm correct.( the inside of atoms if i'm correct )conqueror Kenny said:
Only someone smart can realize he's a freaking idiot; stupid people never catch on. Congratulations.Bulletinmybrain said:
As to instincts, here in Chattanooga, Tennessee every time there's a forecast of snow the grocery stores are jammed and all the essentials (bread and milk especially) are soon gone, in spite of the fact that we don't get a snow that stops traffic in the city more than once a decade, and then usually for only a day or so (and never for four-wheel or all-wheel drive vehicles.) It's so bad that if snow is forecast we don't go to the store even if we need to, just to avoid the idiots.