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I don’t think people argue that IQ - whatever it is - is not heritable. I think the mechanism of inheritance is in question. You have your biological determin
by pfisherman 3y ago
I don’t think people argue that IQ - whatever it is - is not heritable. I think the mechanism of inheritance is in question.
You have your biological determinists - who believe that genetics (molecular mechanisms) are the mechanism of heritability; and you have blank slate people - who believe that the environment provided by the parents is that main mechanism of inheritance.
I personally find it to be kind of laughable because intelligence is not well defined. As I have gotten older and wiser I have realized that intelligence is multi dimensional, and the people who harp on IQ tend to be lacking along dimensions not related to analytic thinking - i.e. social, emotional, physical intelligence.
- shrimp_emoji 3y agoAnd we're gonna be BTFO'd on all those dimensions by AI ;D By twist of postmodern irony, it turns out the most impressive thing our brains could do is the stuff we feel is the most basic: walking and picking up cups.
- ToValueFunfetti 3y agoThis is less surprising if you consider that muscle control has been in evolutionary development for 500 million years while higher reasoning is 2 million years old and language is just 200,000 years old.