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>If they don’t make you smarter, almost nothing will. Because nothing makes you smarter. There are no means of intelligence enhancement, other than correcting
by zetalyrae 4y ago
>If they don’t make you smarter, almost nothing will.
Because nothing makes you smarter. There are no means of intelligence enhancement, other than correcting deficiencies (e.g. iodine) in early development.
- zamnos 4y agoAu contraire! TMS, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and related sort of magnetic-field-on-brain things have early results that say it can increase working memory, improve logic/math/3d visualization skills, and push motivation.
- asdfman123 4y agoSo school doesn’t either? If that’s true, then I don’t think we mean the same thing when we say “intelligence.”
- alwayslikethis 4y agoSchool doesn't make people more intelligent. It makes them more educated, which can mean a variety of things depending on the cultural context, such as an understanding of social mores, skills such as reading and writing or arithmetic, and/or ideological indoctrination.
- asdfman123 4y agoMost other things in the human body seems to be use it or lose it. Sure, innate talent matters a lot, but so does training. You’d never be a track star even with the best genetics if you never left the couch.
- somsak2 4y agothat's the problem though, the mind isn't a muscle. lifting weights can make you better in a different but related activity, like a sport. but the research on brain games shows that they only make you better at the specific game they're drilling, not anything else.