Two more (possibly repeated) thoughts about intelligence

 Two more (possibly repeated) thoughts about intelligence

Learning difficulty or disability?

The first expression, learning DIFFICULTY, is the one most commonly used, especially in the contexts of education and psychology. However, as I've mentioned before, perhaps it would be better if this expression were limited to personal contexts in which a true learning potential is perceived, which has been hampered by factors external to the individual. Therefore, the learning DISABILITY/LIMITATION could be generalized to other contexts. If, in fact, a persistent inability is very likely a permanent phenotype and not just a condition that can be completely reversed or resolved. And to accept it as it is, without this unrealistic belief that we have indefinite potential, especially in intellectual terms, so popular in "postmodern" times...

What is the most primary cause of a deficiency in rational (objective and impartial) thought?

While personality plays an important role in this context, it may also be that the cognitive aspect influences more primarily, because it is or appears to be more structural than the psychological aspect, and that this influence is therefore reflected in behavior. For example, difficulties with cognitive flexibility and autonomous reasoning, especially in the sense of "the ability to perceive true or feasible patterns," may be causal and antecedent factors that direct individuals, who present them, toward ideological fanaticism (or religious fundamentalism), which, in turn, expresses itself precisely as an inflexibility of thoughts, ideas, and beliefs. But it's not just a question of inflexibility, it's also a question of extreme subjectivity, which perhaps best defines both fanaticism and irrationality: a chronic inability to think objectively and impartially, or less personally, in which this adulteration of perception occurs, a kind of intoxication with one's own references supported by a preferred and restricted set of dogmatic beliefs that are predominantly unrealistic or distorted.

Again, the paradox of impartiality

However, it may also be that high rational capacity itself is simply another type of subjectivity, characteristically less extreme, that cannot be universally developed or achieved, as I have concluded. Returning to an older thought of mine on the same topic, in which I argue that rationality also has a bias, but a bias toward the anti-bias...