Poll: Are Humans Smart?

[Bulletinmybrain]

Instincts can not be learned. The above is actually intelligence because she would react on what she knows.

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.

OK...so you can't learn that in a combat situation you get the hell out of the way immediately?
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.

Only someone smart can realize he's a freaking idiot; stupid people never catch on. Congratulations.

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.

So i'm smart because I can tell my above statements were stupid. Makes sense in a way. But yeah atleast you get snow here in va we have zilch for snow.>.>

Thanks for the add! lol

 

[zachbob2]

I would say ther were but the media has had great sucess brainwashing people. IE Global Warming

 

[stratta one]

Smart technology and invention-wise? yes
smart in killing ourselves? no

 

[Caboose669]

smart in killing ourselves? no

But we are very good at that ¬_¬

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

smart in killing ourselves? no

But we are very good at that ¬_¬

No we are the best on this planet at killing other humans. We freaking made a bomb that blows up everything in 100 meters of the drop site!

 

[Caboose669]

No we are the best on this planet at killing other humans. We freaking made a bomb that blows up everything in 100 meters of the drop site!

And if thats not progress, I don't know what is

 

[Dance The Revolution]

I picked undecided. There is no way I could answer that. In fact, most people shouldn't answer it. We don't even know what intellegence is. The only post I read so far that presented something close to my views on the subject was this one.

For one intelligent individual there are a hundred (or many more) stupid mainstream braindeads lead by their instincts and nothing but their biology. Most people I know only come to decisions by fetching their moral rules which they are bred to have.
(sorry if that was completely bad english, I'm not native-speaking)
Such behaviour is not smart, it's average... most people do so. And that's nothing bad because most people are not intelligent enough to make own decisions.
Since I don't believe that there is a real characteristic like intelligence, but many characteristics that together form a more or less individual character it's always a stupid discussion about intelligence in my eyes. Everyone has a different understanding of the world an everything which is based on the way our brain has developed since we were a baby. Some undertstand very precisely what is happening around them, some do not. Those that do not, mostly don't even know that they don't know and as such don't care.
Humans just work, they work like everything else in the world just works. The complexity your brain works with may be that what makes you "intelligent".

btw: I voted for no cause only a few humans are capable of understanding why I voted no. If you are such subject, congratulations you are what I call intellient. At leats in some parts.

I wish I knew why he said 'no' exactly.

 

[Dommyboy]

Depends how you define smart. If you define it as got the big and most fire sticks that hurt things, yes we succeed. Until some aliens descend upon us and kick the shit out of us, ironic.

 

[Omnidum]

As far as I can see, It is both yes and no. Yes, as individuals we gotz da shmarts. No, as a group we are like sheep. Mindless, clueless if we don't have one to lead us, and just plain stupid.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

Depends how you define smart. If you define it as got the big and most fire sticks that hurt things, yes we succeed. Until some aliens descend upon us and kick the shit out of us, ironic.

Nah by my count we could outlast them until the point where them fighting us would be unfeasible.

 

[EXPLOSION]

considering that "smart" and "intelligent" are purely human concepts used to measure human traits, then yes, we are the smartest and most intelligent species in existence.

Also, since the question is a purely semantic one, the fact that this debate is not purely a discussion of semantics it kinda proves that you're all rather stupid (and no; stupid is not just the opposite of smart)

 

[The Wooster]

I disagree. Humans are, by any way you want to measure intelligence, the smartest creatures known to man.

Heh.

 

[EXPLOSION]

As far as I can see, It is both yes and no. Yes, as individuals we gotz da shmarts. No, as a group we are like sheep. Mindless, clueless if we don't have one to lead us, and just plain stupid.

as a group of individuals we are actually surprisingly smart, it's when someone tries to lead us, our tendency to blindly accept leadership makes us stupid. Yet without leadership the group goes nowhere... makes ya think...

...made me think of an equation
(Intelligence of group)=(intelligence of leader) x (leadership/person management ability of leader)

 

[Jarile]

To be able to answer this question you need to specify a definition of intelligence. Which can be, among other definitions:
The capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.

Humans do have the capacity for those things, so by that definition humans are intelligent. But having the capability to do something doesn't mean it will be done or used. Do all humans use there brain though? I think not!

 

[Windows David]

remember Ainstain
well his theory of relative is helpful for this thread
ok to other animals we are smart but to other humans were dump

its like you ask what is more important sun or the earth?

 

[J'aen]

We're the dominant species on the planet. That makes us smarter than the other animals, at least.

 

[Myself0101]

surely a one man marathon is just a time trial, not a race?

 

[Myself0101]

Ainstain?

Einstein?

Hmmm

 

[PEAKSSS]

Are humans the most intellectually advanced species?...Why yes....Are we the smartest? We have accidentally begun to kill the planet we live on so I'd say not really.

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

Humans are smart.
Except for Americans of course.

(The debate thickens)