3/24/21 - "Rate Me" "Everyone's intelligence can be easily measured by taking our simple test. Now, pay attention! Here it comes... *BOOM!* ...Well, that's a wrap! Compare results with all your friends!" As convenient and appealing as it would seem to the common person, intelligence tests are just another funny thing about the current world, and its apparent idea that its scientific methods are supernaturally accurate. While trusting the inventor of a given "intelligence test" to help you learn the truth about your intellectual capacity may seem like an exciting inquiry, the truth is, that his guess isn't much better than yours. As much "research" as may have been done to determine an appropriate method, there's no telling if the scientists were conceptually off-base. The primary point being, that "intelligence" is a concept, rather than a purely objective reality, but scientists are clearly treating it as though it were. What is "intelligence"? Remember, that the first scientists were also great philosophers, but that has basically gone out the window in the modern era. Instead of honest consideration, you now have mechanical replication. "School" (another ideological concept) has taught its students to memorize everything that they are taught as factual information, and the highest marks are awarded to the students who reproduce it the most systematically, exactly as it was presented to them. One thing that they told me in Chemistry class was that science has continually changed over the years, and old theories are considered obsolete. They tell you that this information might not stay true in the long run, but grading can only be done according to a strict system. But, if what you're currently "learning" might not really be true, why are grading systems such a rigid measurement of your "accuracy"? Theoretical knowledge shouldn't be treated this way, and although they tell you about it, they are disregarding the probable reality that the answers will change, and the subject matter was open to interpretation. Your grades are more about obedience than anything else, and intelligence tests only really measure theirselves - Meaning, it only tells you how accurate you were in responding to someone else's creation, someone else's set of ideas. And, as we know, most people's ideas are firmly founded in the ideology of their culture, and inherently distorted by its influence. The truth is, that most people want the intelligence test to be true, simply because (they hope) it is an effective way of judging ourselves, and assigning everyone a rank. As a kid, I took intelligence tests a few times, and while the results varied (as I would expect), I was generally in an "above average" range. No "Stephen Hawking". But, then I hear that Stephen Hawking doesn't believe in anything supernatural, that even the origins of the universe are explicable by scientific rationalizations concerning physical nature. Guess he didn't excel as a philosopher, as well. You simply can't get something from nothing, Stephen. Whatever physical dynamic might be behind the creation of the universe, I am absolutely certain that it had a pre-existing source. Then we consider Time... The Beginning, and the End. Those definitions might be reduced to a description of physical phenomena, but I wouldn't rely on any human to describe it to me. To think that you can do such a thing, using mathematical and physical theory, is very presumptuous. A little haughty, I'd say. That's one of the reasons that I wouldn't even begin to try - I already know that such speculation is a futile effort. His theories about the universe assume many more things than they actually know, and its unreasonable to hope that his arbitrary ideation were the "bible" on physics. Don't get me wrong! I'm sure he was much better at math than me, but then again, math was only a practice of abstract thought, and its usefulness may also be limited to a human capacity. IF physical nature is actually a supernatural dynamic, knowing it under the pretenses of human knowledge is probably useless. So, IS Hawking the smartest guy we know? Or, was that just a trick that culture played on itself, under the guise of a measured "intelligence quotient"? While your culture considers me crazy, and Hawking a genius, reality will vindicate me as a humble authority, in everything concerning thought and reason. |