It's not just or intrinsically a difference in flexibility of thought, but in how factual that thought is, because there are, of course, conclusive statements that express a fact or an objective truth. This is one way I've found to differentiate dogma from a conclusive statement that expresses a fact or an objective truth, since it doesn't seem sufficient to me to define dogma as synonymous with inflexibility, but rather to use a statement that is also fallacious or untrue, so as to highlight the irrational nature of insisting on what is not true—that is, of, in certain cases, being inflexible, even if there is nothing primarily wrong, in an intellectual sense, in making conclusive statements that express facts. Secondarily, in these cases, only the moral or ethical question can be raised.
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sábado, 30 de agosto de 2025
quinta-feira, 14 de agosto de 2025
One of my biggest disappointments: "highly intelligent" people
They promise a lot and deliver little... Especially in emotional and rational terms.
My personal experience and my general impression of these people, who are recognized as highly intelligent by conventional criteria, have not been good. Because I've expected them to be more rational or sensible, creative, and emotionally intelligent. In short, according to the very concept of human intelligence, present in any dictionary. However, at least in my experience and also based on my observations of typically "high IQ" groups, what I've noticed is the opposite of what is expected of those who are socially considered the "most intelligent." If, instead of sensibility, I've perceived in them a strong attraction or vulnerability to ideological indoctrination, and this usually means an excessive attachment to irrational beliefs; Instead of creativity, I've noticed in them a tendency toward cognitive rigidity, as they seem more tacitly intolerant or incapable of dealing with dissenting opinions. Perhaps they lack a fully developed capacity for self-criticism, which isn't limited to a less than objective and impartial self-reflection and which, in turn, results in a constant appeal to rationalizing thoughts and actions, including their own mistakes. And, finally, a sense of a tendency toward coldness or emotional imbalance among them, that is, a limited capacity to understand personal or emotional contexts, of others and of themselves, which makes their social relationships more difficult. Ultimately, I've noticed in them (qualitative) variations of the same phenomenon: stupidity, which, in theory, one wouldn't expect to see more frequently in the group considered the "most intelligent." Scientists/academics, journalists, teachers, high-level artists...
sexta-feira, 8 de agosto de 2025
Um truque comum entre indivíduos "de alto QI"/A common trick among "high IQ" individuals
Talvez o truque mais comum, é o de racionalizarem suas deficiências (comprovadas ou comprováveis) em outras facetas da inteligência humana, além das capacidades técnicas em que tendem a ser excelentes, nomeadamente de inteligência emocional e de racionalidade. Em outras palavras, de racionalizarem suas crenças irracionais e/ou julgamentos insensatos com explicações inteligentes, pelo uso de suas altas capacidades cognitivas quantitativas, especialmente as linguísticas, mas que os mantêm à margem de um desenvolvimento mais robusto de suas capacidades racionais e emocionais, ou capacidades qualitativas... Paradoxalmente falando, é o mesmo que usarem as capacidades cognitivas em que são mais inteligentes, mas contra outras capacidades, para continuarem menos inteligentes do que poderiam ser, inclusive em um sentido mais objetivo e decisivo de inteligência, que é a própria razão... Claro que tendem a fazer isso sem ter o pleno entendimento do que estão fazendo, de que estão se prejudicando intelectualmente, talvez um custo-benefício que, para eles, valha a pena, se costuma estar associado com a adaptação social especialmente em contextos humanos tipicamente dominados pela irracionalidade.
Perhaps the most common trick is to rationalize their deficiencies (proven or provable) in other facets of human intelligence, beyond the technical capabilities in which they tend to excel, namely emotional intelligence and rationality. In other words, rationalizing their irrational beliefs and/or senseless judgments with intelligent explanations, using their high quantitative cognitive capacities, especially linguistic ones, but which keep them on the margins of a more robust development of their rational and emotional capacities, or qualitative capacities... Paradoxically speaking, it's the same as using the cognitive capacities in which they are most intelligent, but against other capacities, to remain less intelligent than they could be, including in a more objective and decisive sense of intelligence, which is reason itself... Of course, they tend to do this without fully understanding what they are doing, that they are harming themselves intellectually, perhaps a cost-benefit that, for them, is worth it, if it is usually associated with social adaptation, especially in human contexts typically dominated by irrationality.
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...
quarta-feira, 30 de julho de 2025
The essence of linguistic intelligence is also one of the most important cognitive aspects of rationality
In a previous text, I said that the most important aspect of linguistic intelligence is not what has been most socially considered as such: vocabulary size and sophistication and proficiency in learning languages, but what is most essential to language, not just human language: the capacity for communication and factual understanding (of lived reality). Therefore, it seems logical to understand that the essence of language, or linguistic intelligence, is also a very important aspect of rational capacity, if we can only understand, as well as misunderstand, reality through language. Therefore, it is the precision and objectivity of language, coupled with greater factual understanding, that massively contribute to greater rationality. This is in addition to the ability to perceive true or feasible patterns, which I had already identified as a cognitive aspect of rational capacity.
domingo, 6 de abril de 2025
Pattern perception as a basic cognitive expression of rationality (and one more thought on the same topic)
I have already talked about this in other texts. In this one, I try to be more objective.
I must have already mentioned that rationality can be considered a contextualization in the real world of pattern perception; in which those IQ test questions to find the pattern of a numerical sequence are replaced by questions and analyses of patterns of the most diverse orders in the real world. So, high rational capacity would also be a more developed capacity for pattern perception, but of true patterns, which would be its most important cognitive aspect: attention and the ability to perceive patterns of recurrence and variation, also in an abstract, statistical sense... extrapolating beyond the perception of physical or chemical phenomena. In other words, to perceive reality itself and to expand one's understanding of it beyond the basics that the senses can capture. But also to establish oneself in the most important or relevant perspectives, which is what matters most in a realistic sense. In other words, a perceptive capacity more directly linked to survival, but also in a more holistic, objective, impartial, preventive, medium to long-term sense than typically subjective, partial, remedial and short-term. The difference between seeking to understand the world in order to adapt or survive to it, and doing so in the opposite order, in which it is the mode of adaptation and survival that dictates what will be considered true or false. The example of religion, if its sensation, on average, is more pleasant for those who adopt it as a personal belief, usually contributes to the emotional and social adjustment of the individual, and then, it comes to be treated as an absolute truth, precisely because of the direct link that is established between personal benefit and determination of truth, by the logic "the thought that does me good, is because it is an absolute truth".
2. If I haven't said it before, again.
Relationship between levels of consciousness (realistic, surrealistic and hyperrealistic) and levels of rationality
The first is a thought of my own, about how consciousness would express itself in a hierarchy of qualitative and quantitative expression, in which its lowest levels (realistic) would be variably more instinctive: restricted, strict, pragmatic... And its highest levels, more contemplative and existentialist (hyperrealistic). So, the relationship between the two hierarchies of expression would be as follows: the lowest levels of consciousness, the first layer of attention and understanding of the world, would express non-rational levels*. These levels represent the "animal kingdom" of consciousness. The intermediate or surrealist levels, the second layer of attention and understanding of the world, would express lower levels of rationality, which represent the "ideological kingdom", common to most human beings. Finally, the highest levels, or hyperrealists (philosophical kingdom), would express the highest levels of consciousness, attention and understanding of the world, and therefore also of rationality.
* Based on my thinking that non-human animals cannot be rational, but neither can be irrational, if they have not evolved intellectually and cognitively to the level of reason, it would be the same as saying that humans are deficient in the ability to fly, after all, we have not evolved physically to become capable of flying either. And if irrationality is synonymous with stupidity, which makes no sense at the level of adaptive logic of other species, it would be the same as saying that fish are stupid because they do not know how to walk on dry land, even though the comparison of intelligence has its validity, but is restricted to itself, so that it is possible to trace a progressive line of cognitive evolution between species (humans are more intelligent than fish), but it is not possible to categorically state that a species is intrinsically "stupid" (fish are only stupid because they are less intelligent than humans). Again, the same idea that an existing context of possibility is necessary, otherwise it is not even a comparison between apples and pears, different within the same category, but between apples and stones, from different categories.
terça-feira, 25 de março de 2025
Replication of a pseudoscientific finding
The supposed (almost causal) correlation between IQ and rationality, in this new study below:
https://www.psypost.org/twin-study-suggests-rationality-and-intelligence-share-the-same-genetic-roots/
But why is it a pseudoscientific finding??
Because rational capacity is not well assessed by questions about hypothetical and specific situations, but by the factual quality of an individual's belief system, a much more objective way of accessing it. In other words, more is known about a person's level of common sense by their beliefs than by their answers on a test. Also because, generally, there is not just one "right" or "most rational" answer to specific everyday situations that require decision or judgment, if personal contexts can/usually vary, as well as the way we deal with them (influenced especially by our most intrinsic characteristics: personality, cognitive style...). And last but not least, because this is yet another correlation, even in the case of the "most rational" in "rationality tests", it seems that the number of people with high average IQs, especially verbal IQs, who have a high level of ideological fanaticism for certain irrational beliefs, such as the belief in egalitarianism, one of the most common in this population, seems to be disproportionate, demonstrating that a high cognitive capacity alone is not enough to function as a protective factor against chronic irrationality, nor that rationality is basically a discrete facet of cognitive capacities, as this study is claiming, even though it is believed to be a combination or recruitment of certain capacities, both cognitive and non-cognitive, that contribute to its expression and development, precisely a type of modulation (and that irrationality would logically be an opposite modulation).
This type of study is based on certain postulates that do not seem to match the observed and practical reality of human intelligence. The most relevant point here is that there is a g factor of cognitive abilities that results in a non-modular expression of intelligence, the opposite of what is perceived in reality. For if it is true that human intelligence is more generalist than that of other species, perhaps the most generalist of all, this is true in a comparative sense, because we continue to be more inclined towards cognitive specialization, even if less strict. For there is abundant evidence that corroborates this thesis, that human intelligence has a more modular nature, and that this diversity of specializations, consequently, tends to manifest itself in a more irregular manner among human groups. For example, the cognitive differences in visual-spatial and emotional abilities between men and women.
For even if it is possible to confirm the predominant occurrence of a regularity of individual performance in cognitive tests, it must be reiterated that this phenomenon is limited to psychometrics. This would explain, for example, an individual with high verbal-linguistic ability also presenting excellent mathematical performance in more general or superficial cognitive assessments, but, in practice, ending up developing more of his most prominent cognitive facet and still presenting a very average performance in non-verbal skills. However, this does not mean that intelligence differs individually only through channeling in certain capacities and that it ends up affecting other capacities, as if everyone presented the same initial potential and were to differ based on the process of choosing domains, but rather that these channeling or specialization tendencies are much deeper, structurally predetermined, according to the morphological/cerebral characteristics, in short, the physical-chemical characteristics of the individual, that is, cognitively reflective of these characteristics. It also means that there is a varied, but always limited, level of modulation of capacities and that, while this flexibility does not have an infinite or indefinable potential, there is a tendency in which the expressive emergence of certain cognitive (and psychological) capacities or characteristics tends to be related to a variably reduced expression of other characteristics or capacities, which seem to present a more antagonistic relationship. For example, visual-spatial capacities, much more developed in men, and socio-emotional capacities, much more developed in women; the difference between having a brain that pays more attention to inanimate elements and one that pays more attention to people and other living beings.
A translated excerpt from the text in the link shows the type of test that was applied to supposedly assess rational capacity, and that, in fact, it is a test of logical thinking, which is not exactly the same as rational thinking* and
which, in my opinion, can only be best assessed in real-world situations.
* Rational thinking is about the perception of facts, evidence or even a more impartial and objective analysis always aiming for greater understanding. Logical thinking, a priori, is about finding the underlying logic in a given context or situation, that which makes specific sense, although also related to the perception of an objective truth, not necessarily the same as rational thinking. This is the difference between finding the most correct answer to a problem and knowing that Cuba is not a democracy from any possible conceptual angle.
"Cognitive rationality was assessed using a specific test known as the Cognitive Reflection Test. This test presents individuals with problems designed to trigger an intuitive but incorrect response. For example, a question asks: "A bat and a ball together cost $1.10. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?" The quick, intuitive answer is 10 cents, but the correct answer, which requires a little more thought, is actually 5 cents. The Cognitive Reflection Test uses several of these questions to see how well people can resist misleading intuitions and arrive at the logically correct answer."
As I have already mentioned and will say again in this text, a true test of rational capacity would precisely assess the level of rationality, which is very redundant, and, for this, nothing is more intuitive than doing so by assessing how centered on facts, evidence and consideration an individual's (personal) beliefs are, since they are much more important and influential, including in terms of intellectual discernment, of perceiving what is true and what is not, than getting correct answers on a test about hypothetical and very specific situations.
sexta-feira, 7 de março de 2025
About an old discussion: who is more irrational, the left or the right, and a new thought
What is more irrational, mediocrity or madness??
I have already written some texts based on this question in the title, more specifically two texts. In the first, I compared the left and the right based on the historical context of colonial Brazil and concluded that it is the right-wingers who are more inclined towards irrationality, not only because they are more likely to justify slavery, but also because they are more inclined towards religious belief, an extra and traditional dose of adherence to magical thinking. In the second text, I ended up concluding that the more rational ones would be more likely to not become so ideologically biased, contrasting an older text of mine, about highly rational individuals, in which I stated that they would be more likely to adopt progressive beliefs more vigorously, also based on the long history of embracing obscurantism by the other side, the right.
A new thought about this discussion, according to what I have been thinking, is that the comparison between those on the right and those on the left, in rational terms, is equivalent to the comparison between different doses of rationality, or rather, irrationality, in which the first group would be excessively restrained in their intellectual approaches, and therefore more conservative, expressing a more mediocre way of rational thinking, while the second would be excessive in its intellectual approaches, and that, without a quality filter of thoughts and ideas, becomes a more risky and mistaken way of rational thinking. Therefore, it is the clash between mediocrity and madness, between going too little beyond primary good sense, which is usually called "common sense", and going much further, but more in a sense of inverting it, reiterating the condition of the left, which has given itself, as an antithesis of the right, and not as a synthesis or a true moral and intellectual transcendence, as it seems to proclaim.
But this does not mean that right-wingers are, on average, less irrational than rational. It does mean that they are less irrational than left-wingers. Nor does it mean that conservative thought is perfectly cautious. Traditional religious belief alone shows us that this is far from true. (Still, it is interesting to think that, if from a thought I had about it, it is possible to consider it radical, in the sense of imprudent or hasty, and also conservative, depending on the perspective. If from a purely rational perspective, traditional religion, but also any other form of magical thinking, is tacitly an extraordinary statement without extraordinary evidence, a speculative leap without any logical basis, treated as absolute truth. And if from a historical-cognitive and evolutionary perspective, religious belief among humans would be the conservation of the universal and extremely basic modus operandi of living beings, self-centeredness, of primarily perceiving reality from one's own perspective, instead of doing so in a more objective way, shifting perception to the objective instead of self-projection).
sábado, 7 de dezembro de 2024
Sobre detecção de padrões e racionalidade /On pattern detection and rationality
A racionalidade se principia basicamente pela detecção contextualizada de padrões. Então, se temos aquele famoso teste de inteligência, das matrizes, em que se busca encontrar padrões em uma sequência numérica, a racionalidade consiste primariamente na contextualização desta capacidade tão básica para nós. De "encontre o número subsequente de (0,2,6,14, ?)" para "encontre padrões correlativos ou causais de comportamentos entre grupos humanos", por exemplo...
Rationality basically begins with the contextualized detection of patterns. So, if we have that famous intelligence test, the matrices, in which we seek to find patterns in a numerical sequence, rationality consists primarily in the contextualization of this ability that is so basic to us. From "find the subsequent number of (0,2,6,14, ?)" to "find correlative or causal patterns of behavior among human groups", for example...
sexta-feira, 29 de novembro de 2024
Como que racionalidade e moralidade se relacionam??/How are rationality and morality related?
Uma pessoa muito racional apresenta um ímpeto e também uma capacidade, ambos plenamente desenvolvidos, de sempre buscar por evidências antes, mas também durante e depois de julgar qualquer tópico que se torne de seu interesse (inclusive julgando a si mesma quanto à sua capacidade de analisar e julgar específico a cada tópico). Em outras palavras, por ser mais sensata e ponderada, tende a pensar e agir de maneira mais justa, se a justiça, em sua prática mais ideal, e não apenas como sinônimo estrutural de poder aplicado, se norteia pela busca imparcial por evidências ou fatos. Pois a partir do que foi comentado acima, parece que se torna evidente que, maior a capacidade racional de uma pessoa, maior a sua capacidade de discernir o que é fato e o que é boato, verdadeiro ou falso, e isso obviamente também se aplica ao campo da moralidade, do que é considerado certo, negociável e errado. Portanto, a racionalidade mostra-se fundamental para a prática da justiça, porém frequentemente negligenciada, desde os processos de julgamento por acusação de crime prescrito no código penal até na elaboração e aplicação de políticas públicas.
A highly rational person has a drive and a capacity, both fully developed, to always seek evidence before, but also during and after judging any topic that becomes of interest to him (including judging himself regarding his ability to analyze and judge specific to each topic). In other words, because he is more sensible and thoughtful, he tends to think and act more fairly, if justice, in its most ideal practice, and not just as a structural synonym for applied power, is guided by the impartial search for evidence or facts. From what was commented above, it seems clear that the greater a person's rational capacity, the greater her ability to discern what is fact and what is rumor, true or false, and this obviously also applies to the field of morality, of what is considered right, negotiable and wrong. Therefore, rationality is fundamental to the practice of justice, but is often neglected, from trial processes for accusations of crimes prescribed in the penal code to the development and implementation of public policies.
sexta-feira, 25 de outubro de 2024
Sobre a relação possivelmente complexa entre racionalidade e genialidade/On the possibly complex relationship between rationality and genius
1. Conflito entre ponderação e genialidade
sexta-feira, 23 de agosto de 2024
Disgenia?? Uma possível evidência de que a população brasileira está ficando ainda menos inteligente e racional.../Dysgenics?? Possible evidence that the Brazilian population is becoming even less intelligent and rational...
A piora significativa da educação e das capacidades cognitivas dos estudantes brasileiros, mas por quê??
quarta-feira, 14 de agosto de 2024
Qual é o seu Q.C? Ou o seu Q.R? Ou o seu Q.I.E?? E o Q.I.C do seu país??/What is your C.Q? Or your R.Q? Or your E.I.Q?? What about your country's C.I.Q.?
Apenas testes de Q.I??
quarta-feira, 24 de julho de 2024
Sobre a relação entre autoconhecimento e racionalidade/About the relationship between self-knowledge and rationality
Subestimar ou superestimar potenciais e limites é por si só irracional, um mal julgamento, uma insensatez que costuma repercutir seriamente em outras áreas, inclusive sobre a própria capacidade racional. Portanto, alguém que apresenta um autoconhecimento distorcido é provável que faça o mesmo em relação a outros conhecimentos, como a própria capacidade de pensar racionalmente. Por exemplo, uma pessoa que acredita que sabe mais matemática do que realmente sabe, ou que acredita ter um grande talento artístico que não tem, ou que acredita saber mais sobre geopolítica, história, comportamento, enfim, sobre ciências humanas, do que realmente sabe, enfim, o que está subentendido em todo mal julgamento, que é a dificuldade de discernir fatos de inverdades, consequência direta de uma dificuldade de pensar e julgar com ponderação: com objetividade e imparcialidade...
Underestimating or overestimating potentials and limits is in itself irrational, a bad judgment, a folly that usually has serious repercussions on other areas, including on one's own rational capacity. Therefore, someone who presents distorted self-knowledge is likely to do the same in relation to other knowledge, such as their own ability to think rationally. For example, a person who believes they know more mathematics than they actually do, or who believes they have great artistic talent that they don't have, or who believes they know more about geopolitics, history, behavior, in short, about human sciences, than they actually know. , finally, what is implied in every bad judgment, which is the difficulty of discerning facts from untruths, a direct consequence of a difficulty in thinking and judging thoughtfully: with objectivity and impartiality...
domingo, 21 de julho de 2024
Sobre racionalidade e impessoalidade/About rationality and impersonality
A racionalidade é uma questão de imparcialidade e objetividade. Mas também é uma questão de impessoalidade, se para a sistematização do pensamento lógico-racional ou imparcial-objetivo é necessário neutralizar a autoprojeção de expectativas e crenças pessoais o máximo que se pode conseguir. Pois eu acredito que sou um exemplo relativamente bem sucedido desse processo de despersonalização visando uma maior racionalidade, porque se fosse me basear apenas em mim mesmo, em minha situação pessoal (dependência financeira e desempregabilidade, por enquanto, crônicas) e em algumas das minhas características (minha homobissexualidade) e crenças (ambientalismo e anti-capitalismo), eu acabaria me tornando muito mais enviesado à esquerda em meus posicionamentos político-ideológicos. Mas desde há um bom tempo, que eu nem sei exatamente quando, que eu fui aprendendo a ampliar minha visão de mundo para além da minha própria perspectiva, de auto-interesse, priorizando a verdade objetiva, independente se coaduna com a minha situação ou crenças, ao invés de fazer ou escolher por interpretações ou argumentos que satisfaçam o meu ego, amadurecendo intelectualmente. E é preciso dizer que esse processo, ao menos para mim, tem se dado de maneira não-linear; um aprendizado constante...
Rationality is a matter of impartiality and objectivity. But it is also a question of impersonality, whether for the systematization of logical-rational or impartial-objective thinking it is necessary to neutralize the self-projection of personal expectations and beliefs as much as possible. Because I believe that I am a relatively successful example of this depersonalization process aiming for greater rationality, because if I were to base myself only on myself, on my personal situation (financial dependence and unemployability, for now, chronic) and on some of my characteristics (my homobisexuality) and beliefs (environmentalism and anti-capitalism), I would end up becoming much more skewed to the left in my political-ideological positions. But for a long time now, I don't even know exactly when, I have been learning to expand my worldview beyond my own perspective, of self-interest, prioritizing objective truth, regardless of whether it fits with my situation or beliefs. , instead of making or choosing interpretations or arguments that satisfy my ego, maturing intellectually. And it must be said that this process, at least for me, has taken place in a non-linear way; constant learning...
segunda-feira, 17 de junho de 2024
Níveis de racionalidade explicados resumidamente /Levels of rationality explained briefly
Que também refletem os níveis de consciência que eu já propus nesse texto: "Sobre níveis de consciência e verdade"
domingo, 16 de junho de 2024
Sobre um paradoxo entre a adaptação e a racionalidade /About a paradox between adaptation and rationality
Uma alta capacidade racional, em teoria, maximiza significativamente o potencial adaptativo. Mas, na prática, esbarra em fatores que não estão sob pleno controle de um indivíduo e que fazem toda diferença quanto ao seu potencial de adaptação ou ajuste social: personalidade, inteligência, aparência física, classe social e a própria sociedade em que vive. Ah, também a própria racionalidade, que não é uma capacidade igualmente distribuída em expressão e potencial de desenvolvimento. Como resultado paradoxal, aquele que se torna o mais realista e, portanto, com maior potencial teórico de adaptação, tende a se ajustar menos às sociedades humanas, justamente por estarem construídas para tipos medianos em níveis de racionalidade, e ainda mais paradoxalmente porque, logicamente falando, o mais racional também é o mais intolerante à irracionalidade, predominante em ambientes humanos e que tende a se expressar pela adoção de ideias, pensamentos ou crenças que não se baseiam em evidências e/ou ponderação analítica. Esse descompasso entre racionalidade e adaptação explica, em partes, a correlação fraca que também parece existir entre racionalidade e inteligência, em termos de QI, se aqueles "de QI alto" tendem a ser mais propensos à conformidade social, justamente pelas vantagens associadas à mesma ou às desvantagens adaptativas associadas à inconformidade, isto é, por ser mais adaptativamente eficiente ou primariamente inteligente se conformar às regras ou leis do ambiente em que vive. Ainda que outros fatores, também subjacentes, costumam ser até mais influentes (que não estão sob pleno controle), tal como a presença de traços de personalidade que predispõem um indivíduo a ser mais conformista, como a agradabilidade, e as próprias estruturas sociais da sociedade "moderna" que tendem a facilitar a adaptação dos que estão acima da média em capacidades cognitivas quantitativas, superficialmente estimadas por testes de QI, reforçando a pressão para a conformidade. Também é interessante perceber que, enquanto é mais inteligente se conformar a um meio social do que lutar contra ele, pode não ser a longo prazo (mas mesmo a curto prazo), porque também depende da qualidade do ambiente, primariamente no sentido geral de estabilidade, e secundariamente no sentido mais humano e ideal de progresso ou harmonia. Pois se adaptar integralmente a um meio disfuncional pode não ser vantajoso, especialmente a longo prazo. Tal como nos ambientes sociais "modernos", em que vivemos, que refletem um processo progressivo de declínio ou entropia civilizacional. Então, em termos racionais, em ambientes sub-otimizados, a resposta mais adequada é a de evitar uma adaptação plena ou mesmo de preferir por um isolamento mais consistente, se o mais provável é que acabe replicando padrões de disfuncionalidade dos mesmos, se tornando mais uma presa de tendências regressivas, em termos evolutivos. É até possível concluir que a alta capacidade racional pode fazer o indivíduo que a possui perceber e se firmar por uma perspectiva mais evolutiva, de pensamento mais holístico, de longo prazo, do que apenas adaptativa, pragmática, de curto prazo...
A high rational capacity, in theory, significantly maximizes adaptive potential. But, in practice, it comes up against factors that are not under the full control of an individual and that make all the difference in terms of their potential for adaptation or social adjustment: personality, intelligence, physical appearance, social class and the society in which they live. Ah, also rationality itself, which is not a capacity equally distributed in expression and development potential. As a paradoxical result, the one that becomes the most realistic and, therefore, with the greatest theoretical potential for adaptation, tends to adapt less to human societies, precisely because they are built for average types in levels of rationality, and even more paradoxically because, logically Speaking, the most rational is also the most intolerant of irrationality, prevalent in human environments and which tends to express itself through the adoption of ideas, thoughts or beliefs that are not based on evidence and/or analytical consideration. This mismatch between rationality and adaptation explains, in part, the weak correlation that also seems to exist between rationality and intelligence, in terms of IQ, if those "with high IQ" tend to be more prone to social conformity, precisely because of the advantages associated with it. or the adaptive disadvantages associated with nonconformity, that is, because it is more adaptively efficient or primarily intelligent to conform to the rules or laws of the environment in which one lives. Although other underlying factors tend to be even more influential (which are not under full control), such as the presence of personality traits that predispose an individual to be more conformist, such as agreeableness, and the social structures of society themselves. "modern" that tend to facilitate the adaptation of those who are above average in quantitative cognitive abilities, superficially estimated by IQ tests, reinforcing the pressure for conformity. It is also interesting to realize that, while it is smarter to conform to a social environment than to fight against it, it may not be in the long term (but even in the short term), because it also depends on the quality of the environment, primarily in the general sense of stability. , and secondarily in the more human and ideal sense of progress or harmony. Because adapting fully to a dysfunctional environment may not be advantageous, especially in the long term. Just like the "modern" social environments in which we live, which reflect a progressive process of civilizational decline or entropy. So, in rational terms, in sub-optimized environments, the most appropriate response is to avoid full adaptation or even to prefer more consistent isolation, if it is more likely that it will end up replicating patterns of dysfunctionality, becoming more a prey to regressive tendencies, in evolutionary terms. It is even possible to conclude that high rational capacity can make the individual who possesses it perceive and establish himself through a more evolutionary perspective, with more holistic, long-term thinking, rather than just an adaptive, pragmatic, short-term one...
sábado, 15 de junho de 2024
A idade mental, de fato, não é "medida" ou refletida pelo QI.../Mental age, in fact, is not "measured" or reflected by IQ...
... mas a partir do nível de racionalidade de uma pessoa, que é estimado de maneira mais abrangente e precisa pela qualidade factual de seu sistema de crenças (e não por esses "testes de racionalidade" que comparam respostas de perguntas sobre situações hipotéticas e específicas), porque é por essa via que é possível saber o quão realista ou firmada em fatos/evidências ela está, isto é, o quão intelectualmente madura ou apta a aceitar fatos, mesmo se contradizem suas crenças e expectativas pessoais.
A idade mental dos testes de QI equivale ao nível de desenvolvimento cognitivo de um ser humano (não em relação a todos os aspectos cognitivos), mas diz pouco ou nada sobre o nível de desenvolvimento psicológico ou emocional, que faz toda diferença, mesmo em relação a aspectos que têm uma aparência puramente cognitiva, por exemplo, capacidades matemáticas, se também dependem do quão desenvolvido está o autoconhecimento, este, por sua vez, dependente da inteligência emocional, especialmente da intrapessoal, por ser primário aos outros conhecimentos, especialmente quando aplicados em nossos contextos diários e se, inevitavelmente, estamos sempre aplicando nossas capacidades contextualmente. Como resultado, se nossa compreensão sobre nós mesmos, limites e potenciais, estiver muito distorcida, existe um alto risco de abordarmos contextos de maneira equivocada. Portanto, a idade mental, em sua totalidade, cognitiva e psicológica, se expressa pela racionalidade, por ser a expressão de nossas inteligências em tempo real, funcionando integralmente, e não isoladamente e em contextos hipotéticos, como os dos testes cognitivos; também por ser a nossa capacidade de discernir fatos de distorções ou mentiras e de, consequentemente, basearmos nossos comportamentos e julgamentos em evidências, especialmente se alcançar os níveis mais altos de racionalidade; e se uma das capacidades mais básicas da inteligência, não apenas da humana, é a percepção da realidade, anterior à própria capacidade de adaptação...
Como conclusão, e repetindo o que já foi dito, a idade mental, em sua totalidade, se trata do quão realistas ou maduros, intelectualmente, nos aspectos cognitivos e psicológicos ou emocionais, estamos, isto é, sobre todos os aspectos envolvidos. Não apenas sobre o quão avançados, medianos ou atrasados estamos em nossos desenvolvimentos cognitivos (em relação ou comparação aos outros) e que, aliás, têm uma boa dose de relatividade, se não alcançamos os mesmos níveis de desenvolvimento.
...but from a person's level of rationality, which is most comprehensively and accurately estimated by the factual quality of their belief system (and not by those "rationality tests" that compare answers to questions about hypothetical and specific situations), because it is through this route that it is possible to know how realistic or grounded in facts/evidence she is, that is, how intellectually mature or able to accept facts, even if they contradict her personal beliefs and expectations.
The mental age of IQ tests is equivalent to the level of cognitive development of a human being (not in relation to all cognitive aspects), but it says little or nothing about the level of psychological or emotional development, which makes all the difference, even in relation to aspects that have a purely cognitive appearance, for example, mathematical abilities, if they also depend on how developed self-knowledge is, which, in turn, depends on emotional intelligence, especially intrapersonal, as it is primary to other knowledge, especially when applied in our daily contexts and whether, inevitably, we are always applying our capabilities contextually. As a result, if our understanding of ourselves, limits and potentials, is very distorted, there is a high risk of approaching contexts in the wrong way. Therefore, mental age, in its entirety, cognitive and psychological, is expressed by rationality, as it is the expression of our intelligence in real time, functioning fully, and not in isolation and in hypothetical contexts, such as those of cognitive tests; also because it is our ability to discern facts from distortions or lies and, consequently, base our behaviors and judgments on evidence, especially if it reaches the highest levels of rationality; and if one of the most basic capabilities of intelligence, not just human intelligence, is the perception of reality, prior to the ability to adapt...
As a conclusion, and repeating what has already been said, mental age, in its entirety, is about how realistic or mature, intellectually, in cognitive and psychological or emotional aspects, we are, that is, on all aspects involved. Not just about how advanced, average or delayed we are in our cognitive developments (in relation or comparison to others) and which have a good dose of relativity, if we do not reach the same levels of development.
Sobre racionalidade e evolução/About rationality and evolution
Em termos evolutivos, a racionalidade é, possivelmente, a expressão mais direta das melhorias significativas de inteligência que têm caracterizado a evolução humana, de expansão do seu escopo perceptivo, muito além das demandas adaptativas imediatas, tornando possível prestar atenção a elementos, fenômenos e comportamentos que não são primariamente essenciais para a sobrevivência individual ou de grupo, em outras palavras, de ser capaz de olhar para o mundo em que se vive de maneira imparcial e objetiva e podendo ampliar esse olhar para além dele.
In evolutionary terms, rationality is possibly the most direct expression of the significant improvements in intelligence that have characterized human evolution, of expanding its perceptual scope, far beyond immediate adaptive demands, making it possible to pay attention to elements, phenomena and behaviors that are not primarily essential for individual or group survival, in other words, of being able to look at the world in which we live in an impartial and objective way and being able to expand this look beyond it.
sábado, 8 de junho de 2024
Mais e mais/More and more
"Idiotas" habitualmente confundem o tamanho do próprio ego com inteligência