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| quote: | Originally posted by Leon
only thing weird here is this
besides, it's a fact. intelligence lessens by the generation, like a cup of liquid poured into another |
au contraire mon friend, some humans are born smarter than their ancestors e.g: If your parents were black persecuted men during the apartheid and were lucky enough to survive, this alone, increases the odds of inheriting better survival skills (e.g: working under the pressure, quick decision making).
Bare in mind, the subject of nurture vs nature might trouble that assumption.
I also believe it is technology which has dumbed 'some' people down, of course, it depends on what kind of use you give this 'technology'. We are addicted to data bombardment through the many hours of the day; our brain can only process so much, excess data becomes blurry; a society addicted to 'data', a hazy state of being is not uncommon.
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"I think the scientific and the artistic spirit have something in common. The scientist wants not only to learn the facts, but to understand how they cohere, fit together and make a whole. He even uses criteria such as beauty and symmetry to help decide which theory he wants.
The scientist cannot capture the whole cosmos in thought. In his mind he makes a kind of microcosm, which we see as an analogue of the cosmos. In this way we try to get a feeling for the whole. The artist, I suppose, gets a feeling for the whole some other way.”
David Bohm in “Art, Dialogue and the Implicate Order”, published in On Creativity RC (Routledge Classics)
Last edited by winston on Jul-05-2009 at 08:48
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