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This makes sense in that IQ is a measure of general intellectual capacity at the concscious level, but the underlying raw processing power of the human brain is
by dasil003 12y ago
This makes sense in that IQ is a measure of general intellectual capacity at the concscious level, but the underlying raw processing power of the human brain is much much greater, we just usually lack the ability to apply it directly to problems—it's like a very high level programming language; whereas mathematical savants or intuition, in this case, can outperform much higher IQs by having a sort of unconscious ASIC under the hood, as it were.
- sayemm 12y agoNice analogy! Yes, it's spot-on with K. Anders Ericsson's research on expert performance and deliberate practice: - http://psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson/ericsson.exp.perf.html http://psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson/ericsson.exp.perf.html - http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Papers/Py104/ericsson.long.html http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Papers/Py104/ericsson.lo...