Are Humans Becoming Less Intelligent?

[Lionheart]

 
http://news.yahoo.com/humans-becoming-less-intelligent-173400651.html

Oh no, say it ain't so, lol. I particularly liked this quote in the article.

"A hunter-gatherer who did not correctly conceive a solution to providing food or shelter probably died, along with his/her progeny, whereas a modern Wall Street executive that made a similar conceptual mistake would receive a substantial bonus and be a more attractive mate. Clearly, extreme selection is a thing of the past," the researchers write in the journal article.

[Volgerle]

Some say that the US elections prove it is fact.

http://www.naturalnews.com/037875_Idiocracy_election_voters.html

[sunshaker]

This is a phase humans are going through, I do not think we can measure human intelligence by the old ways of measurement, we as a race are heading to new ways of understanding, we are more connected to each other than in any other time in our history, we are going through a transition that few can yet see,
As we all know we adapt to our environment, drop me in the wilderness and i will adapt and survive.
Put me in a bank enviroment and i could not do worse than most bankers.
We do what we must in each time and situation, we have many latent hidden talents and skills waiting for the time we need them.
We are heading to a new form of intelligence.

[Bedeekin]

We as a collective race or 'we' who put some effort into evolving?

Or do you mean computer intelligence?

It is lovely to think that we as a collective race will suddenly 'clue up', but I can't help thinking that there will be many left behind.

Drop me in the wilderness and I would probably die... put me in a bank environment and I would probably kill myself. 

[sunshaker]

"We" as a collective race,

Somebody once said "The first shall be the last and the last shall be the first",

We are budding creators,
Computer intelligence will be another tool we use, it will open up unexplored pathways, a stepping stone to higher levels of awareness and understanding,
Everything as a place and a reason for being, there are no accidents.

I know i exsist on many levels,
This "human" level is just one of many,
Time holds no restraints over me,
I am a being out of time, I have always been and i will always be.

[Bedeekin]

It will be a while before 'we' as a collective evolve. I just don't see it happening anytime soon... and I'm an optimist.

We need to lose the darwinian "survival of the fittest" attitude... and instead adopt the attitude of his younger poorer assistant, Alfred Russel Wallace, who came up with the idea of evolution before him, but was pushed into allowing his boss 'Darwin' to take the credit. His findings were 'cooperate' rather than 'compete'. He saw that cells had to cooperate to become better and more adaptive to the environment... one cell became two.. .then two.. .then many... then each cooperated... until a fantastic multicellular organism that could overcome the environment that was only possible through the cooperation of each individual cell doing its own little job for the betterment of the whole was created.


The Darwinian world we live in says... 'strive and compete to be the best'... whereas in a Wallacian world it would have been 'cooperate to be the best we can as a whole'.

How things could have been different.

[Szaxx]

Completely different, we wouldn't need the services of lawyers. 

[ChopstickFox]

Drop me in the wilderness and I would probably die... put me in a bank environment and I would probably kill myself. 

Haha, I like you

I liked that article. I read the other one too... and... I kinda see it... but... yeah... Not everyone out there is an idiot. A lot of people, yes. But it kind of irritates me when people put a blanket over the whole population. I have spent a lot of time working in customer service so trust me, I know plenty of samples of the population that speak poorly for humanity. But were we really any better in years past?

The first article brought up a good point that perhaps we don't have natural selection working the same way as before, supporting our big fat brains, but we do have much better nutrition. Sure, plenty of people think that we are being poisoned and dumbed down and that's all dandy. But I'm eating the same food and I didn't grow into a dumb bull headed bigot. At least I try not to be. There's just no black and white out there. I have a hard time blaming the way of the world and humanity on just a few things. And feeling superior over everyone else never helps anything.

[Anonymouse]

Of course not.I feel the world is divided by half. And each of those halfs sre also divided.. Some people are dying out there for a catching a simple cold. The majority don't have access to internet, decent roof, food. So those will be left behind as well?.

The only ones that can balance humanity on earth are us, we made the world this way so we're the ones with the tools to chanhe things to what it should be; an educated( educated, literally in ahuman terms) united big community. An universal race., technological from within.


Can't wait to see technology reach our biological high tech!!. So for me, we're in the right track... Sadly it's not governmrnts/corporations... Same path.