Re: "It's uncertain whether intelligence has any long term
From: Huck Turner (huckturner_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/21/04
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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:35:24 +0000 (UTC)
"Peter F." <effectivespamblock@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message news:<cdjf2u$1ub4$1@darwin.ediacara.org>...
[snip]
> intelligence
> does most certainly tend (as a matter of the principle contained in the
> concept "AEVASIVE") to be all-around adaptively restricted. That is,
> intelligence tends to be restricted functionally (or "actention selection
> systemically") by force of current and past lifetime situations
[snip]
I wouldn't say that intelligence is limited to functions that are
adaptive because many aspects of intelligence have a pretty tenuous
relationship to survival (musical ability, the ability to ponder
abstract problems like our origins and the nature of the universe,
perform well in trivia quizzes, do crosswords, etc.). These abilities
have currency within a culture that values them, but are essentially
arbitrary.
>
> Thus, I am concurring with what the previous poster almost already
> suggested: that intelligence has since long ceased to be a good investment
> as far as our 'evolutionary economy' is concerned.
>
Well put.
H.
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