Humans Are Getting Dumber And Dumber, Says Stanford Researcher Gerald Crabtree

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A very interesting ''find''.

Civilization is making humanity less intelligent, study claims

The simplicity of modern life is making us more stupid, according to a scientific theory which claims humanity may have reached its intellectual and emotional peak as early as 4,000 BC.

_http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9672790/Civilisation-is-making-humanity-less-intelligent-study-claims.html

_http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121112135516.htm

_http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/humans-getting-dumber-stanford-study_n_2121823.html


Diet change, spiritual downhill, technological advance...
Many things can be blamed...

What do you think?
 
Medulin said:
A very interesting ''find''.

Civilization is making humanity less intelligent, study claims

The simplicity of modern life is making us more stupid, according to a scientific theory which claims humanity may have reached its intellectual and emotional peak as early as 4,000 BC.

_http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9672790/Civilisation-is-making-humanity-less-intelligent-study-claims.html

_http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121112135516.htm

_http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/humans-getting-dumber-stanford-study_n_2121823.html


Diet change, spiritual downhill, technological advance...
Many things can be blamed...

What do you think?

SOTT sez yes!

Are humans becoming less intelligent?

Human intelligence has been on an intellectual and emotional decline since its peak thousands of years ago

We've discussed on this thread about how the introduction of agriculture is predominantly to blame. Here are some articles on this issue from the SOTT database:

Original 'Fall of Eden'? Agriculture is a "profoundly unnatural activity" and the "worst mistake in human history"

The Vegetarian Myth

Lierre Keith on 'The Vegetarian Myth - Food, Justice and Sustainability'
 
While a decline in intelligence is obviously bad, I'm wondering if our increased ability to network in the modern world through the internet is, in effect, helping somewhat to offset this? Since there's less "under the hood" per head in a group, there's less a chance of the information becoming more uniformly distorted by the same psyche and more able to be mirrored (if the group is a proper network, as here), excluding some issues there may be with limbic resonance. Just thinking out loud.
 
whitecoast said:
While a decline in intelligence is obviously bad, I'm wondering if our increased ability to network in the modern world through the internet is, in effect, helping somewhat to offset this? Since there's less "under the hood" per head in a group, there's less a chance of the information becoming more uniformly distorted by the same psyche and more able to be mirrored (if the group is a proper network, as here), excluding some issues there may be with limbic resonance. Just thinking out loud.

The Internet does seem to be of value to those who want to know and who are up to the task of picking through the vast piles of garbage "information" to search for what is useful. Sorting through that may in turn lead to networking opportunities.

It's not going to help most people, I don't think. If you aren't asking the questions, you aren't likely to find answers no matter where you don't look.
 
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