>Why is it so easy to accept that pretty much everything in our bodies is genetic but not intelligence? Because intelligence is much less understood than most

>Why is it so easy to accept that pretty much everything in our bodies is genetic but not intelligence? Because intelligence is much less understood than most of the rest of our bodies. For example, there have been various discoveries that seem to indicate our language has an effect on what we can know and understand [1, 2, etc.]. Perhaps there are dramatic differences in what each of our brains are capable at the "hardware" level, but the "software" (language) dampens the effect. [1] The Piraha can't learn numbers after a certain age because they have no words to describe them [2] An article a few months back about deaf people growing up without any language ended up bringing out the fact that some asian languages have words to describe some aspect of color that westerners do not. Babies are able to see the difference but gradually lose the ability as they grow up with no way of expressing it.