With all the advances being made in the fields of science and technology, it may seem that human intelligence is at its peak. A new research shows it’s not. Study says that human intelligence reached its peak two to six millennia ago.
The study was carried out by Gerald Crabtree, a geneticist at Stanford University. He reached the decision by measuring the activities of the brain. He explains, the brain is a complex thing and its activities are relied upon correct functioning of many genes. The more a brain functions accurately, the more the outcome will be.
Crabtree pointed out that our ancestors’ brain were able to function perfectly as they had to use their entire brain before executing any work. But with the blessings of technology, we modern people have become idle compared to our ancestors. Technically, Crabtree concluded that we are dumber than our ancestors. He has written a paper that has been published in two parts in Trends in Genetics.
Source : Slashdot
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I disagree. The technology comes from human brain. That means the more upgraded technology, the more intelligent brain. Gerald Crabtree needs to think once again…
lol you have no clue what he’s talking about. Sure, it took a few great brains to build everything needed to make computers.
But in turn, computers are leading the masses to end up with less developed brains, cause they get everything calculated for them.
With nature being efficient, the same thing goes for the brain that goes for muscles: use it or loose it.
This seems like the same logic that scientists used back in the 50’s about the 4 minute mile being impossible. Louis Zamperini came close, but the first man to do it was Roger Bannister, ironically he says he did it with very little training.
The patent office was going to close in the late 1800’s because “everything that could be invented had been”
I don’t think it’s not impossible, it’s simply we don’t understand yet.
Tsais, logically you are right. But in turn think in this way – Dual Core, Core 2 Duo, Core i3/i5/i7….. These developments came slowly from human brain. Yes… I agree that computers or other technologies work faster than human brain, but the system used in them has came from human brains. Certainly, these things materialize the speculations of human brain. more specifically, the way these things perform is the outcome of human brain intelligence. The fact is it merely depends based on which perspective you want to accept it.
These chips are made by a few highly paid specialists, who have specifically trained their brains on a very narrow field of activity. Nothing wrong with that. But remember, how Einstein couldn’t dress himself unless someone laid out his clothing for him?
Now, for the few who delved into some fascinating, if narrow field of activity to do great things, there are the Billions who are encouraged to think even less for themselves than they did when they were chattel to the feudal system, working the fields in the middle ages.
We still only use 10% of our brain’s capacity. So saying that the human brain got better is missing the point, as we’ve never used most of it. And if you say that we improve at using our brain, I’d point you to the bell curve and say thats only a few people, really, and those few were already doing great works in antique times, like the Egyptians, Greeks, Indians, Mayas, etc… these guys just didn’t go down the same rabbit hole as we are. We’re focused on materialist science (except quantum physicists having to accept that idea was all wrong), other cultures have focused in other areas, showing equal intelligence, stupidity and blind spots as we have now…
Please show me a peer-reviewed study showing we only use 10% of our brains.