For years I’ve argued that intelligence is your ability to adapt; to take whatever situation you’re in and turn it around to your advantage.
The reason this definition resonates with me is that it’s what separates man from beast. Beasts have every advantage compared to weak, furless, fangless, clawless, slow humans, yet we have this mysterious ability to turn the situation to our advantage and dominate animals twice our size and strength. When other animals enter a new environment they become a new species because the previous species couldn’t adapt. Homo Sapiens by contrast has been adaptable enough to conquer almost every continent while remaining Homo Sapiens.
The question is are we adaptable because our behavior is plastic or because our brains are plastic? The answer is both. Our behavior is plastic because we can solve problems we’ve never seen before but our brains are also plastic because once it’s clear we’re in an environment that favours hunting skills, synapses unrelated to hunting get pruned while those related to hunting get strengthened.
In autism this doesn’t happen. The brain does not prune itself and leading experts in the field are baffled as to why.
My theory is that by not pruning, behavior remains plastic, because the brain has not invested in any one skill. This explains why autistics are good at tasks measuring fluid intelligence (Raven Progressive Matrices, Block Design) but bad on tasks requiring life experience (social skills) and remain childlike in their personalities.
The autistic brain is built for short-term adaptability. Humans in general are built for short-term adaptability because when we entered the arctic 40,000 years ago, we didn’t wait many generations to evolve fur, we simply invented the fur coat in one generation. However among humans, autistics may be the shortest-term adapters. This explains why through most of history, when change happened slowly, neurotypicals were the richest people, but during periods of rapid change like today, autistic type nerds tend to be super rich.
Pumpkin Person 
Peeps, how is the iq test you are creating coming along?
it’s on the back burner
Why peeps?
Do you want to hear my better more superior theory? Here it is: Autists didn’t even exist prior to 1800 and definitely not before civilisation happened. Simon Baron Cohen studied the breeding of autists in the Netherlands and noticed that a lot of their parents tended to be technical people. Technical people never really interbred before mass education was offered.
My guess is autism is simply hyper specialism in abstract reasoning (but not verbal reasoning which autists tend to be quite poor at).
The only reason Buffet is super rich isn’t because his behaviour was plastic, its the opposite. He even said himself that he was super lucky to be born in a society that valued security pricing. He has an extremely rigid personality. Read the biography of Buffet ‘The Snowball’ by Alice Schroeder for a very in depth understanding of an autist.
Your theory is not superior because it fails to explain the most defining aspect of autism. Lack of pruning:
Your verbal reasoning is terrible as usual. Who cares about pruning. Its irrelevant. Its just a mechanism.
But why does that particular mechanism cause autism as opposed to schizophrenia or dementia or retardation. That’s the type of high concept thinking you lack the IQ to engage with which is why I’m the #1 blogger & you’re just a commenter.
Its irrelevant. Its like asking what specifically is going on in the biochemistry or genetics of jewish brains. Who fucking cares what the details are. The big picture is selective breeding. Simon Baron Cohens work tells you a lot more about why autism happens than David Sulzers work. You lack the judgement to make this insight.
Cohen disagrees with you on everything so not sure why you’re singing his praises. You lack the curiosity and sophistication to ponder the neurological data.
Name 1 thing he disagrees with me on.
1) He says autistics have high T.
2) He says autistics are creative.
No he said autists tend to be exposed to higher level of T in the prenatal environment. Common sense shows autists are not high T people.
And he said they’re creative in relation to technical things like math. Its called being euphemistic and ‘damning with faint praise’.
Technology has been the driving force behind human success. The fact that you call that damning with faint praise shows low g.
No it shows high social intelligence because intuition suggests he was trying to be kind to them. Its obviously the case that they are less creative than neurotypical people and have very rigid fixed routines and preferences. Nobody who studies autism thinks that they would make great artists or musicians or anything in the performing arts.
And nobody who studies creativity would think that artists have a monopoly on it.
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“creativity” is bs. 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. one must have talent to be the best, but with rare exception one must also work hard at whatever his metier is.
the creativity IQ distinction is nominal, like all psychobabble.
it comes from the fact that artists and entertainers don’t always have high IQs. but as peepee says, why should creativity be limited to a&e? that’s stupid.
if asians are less creative but higher IQ then the IQ tetsts are broken.
Why merely talk only of a theory explaining things when the mark of a scientific theory is novel predictive success?
Cenk says that jews bribe all the politicans but says we shouldn’t be antisemetic about it or believe the conspiracy theories….
TAATTHHH MATTHHHH SENTTHH!!!
You keep saying autistic people would survive in the tundra or the jungle or whatever. There is zero evidence of that.
Like I said my theory of autism is superior and actually explains where they might have evolved from whereas youre just extending the cold weather IQ theory which ive debunked 100 times on this blog.
You’ve never debunked it & if you don’t believe in cold weather theory then you’re not an HBDer because that’s what caused all the differences between Negroids, Caucasoids & Mongoloids.
The only person thats ever mentioned cold winter theory is you. Nobody uses that theory to explain jews and the theory has glaring holes in it like the fact that many mongloids aren’t smart.
If your theory was relevant why don’t eskimos have super high IQs? [redacted by pp, 2022-07-20]
eskimos have extremely high IQs for hunter-gatherers. No one says climate 100% explains race differences but it does explain a huge part of it. Ashkenazi Jews are a very tiny subset of the Caucasoid race who were not relevant before the 20th century.
You said mongloids were the smartest due to being exposed to the cold for longest yet native americans and many mongloids like Mongolians and south east asians don’t have notable IQs.
There is also examples of south asians like Brahmins who have high IQs.
Also jews were relevant before the 20th century….they invented a thing called ‘christianity’ which dominated the west. Google it.
Cold winters explain IQ the differences BETWEEN the major races: Mongoloid > Caucasoid > Negroid.
The differences within the mongoloid race (East Asian > Native American) or within the Caucasoid race (Ashkenazi > white > Arab) or within the Negroid race (bantu > pygmies?) evolved after the ice age and have other explanations related to the spread of agriculture, markets, civilization and governments.
Christianity was not invented by Ashkenazim btw
But Mongloids aren’t smarter than Caucosoids. The only Mongloids that are are the east asians and that happened after the Ice Age.
Your theory only potentially explains why blacks are dumb basically.
No overall, Mongoloids are smarter than Caucasoids. Most Mongoloids are East Asians (average genetic IQ 105). Most Caucasoids are Middle Easterners/South Asians (average genetic IQ 90).
PP, it was super cold here last Winter and I’m still retarded.
Theory deboonked.
🙂
Honestly I don’t know why you keep roping in south asians and arabs with whites. They are totally different races. Maybe call them dark caucosoids.
If you look at sub saharan africa and north africa, the difference in temperature was minimal and north africans are 10 points higher. Explain that.
A totally different sub-race within the Caucasoid race.
North Africans are much lighter skinned proving they spent most of their recent evolution in a much less sunny climate. Also there is gene flow stretching from North Africa to Northern Europe. By contrast, the Sahara desert is a genetic barrier between Caucasoids & Negroids so gene flow was much less. True raciation requires genetic boundaries.
“The differences within the mongoloid race (East Asian > Native American) or within the Caucasoid race (Ashkenazi > white > Arab) or within the Negroid race (bantu > pygmies?) evolved after the ice age and have other explanations related to the spread of agriculture, markets, civilization and governments.”
“What is an ad hoc hypothesis?”
Mugabe whats the latest from Infowars? I find it very entertaining how Infowars promotes every far right conspiracy theory under the sun except the conspiracy that jews completely control the US government through bribery and blackmail. That one is off limits.
Wouldn’t it be a more productive use of your time to explain this to all the Alex Jones people. My readers are VERY smart. We get it already.
Mugabe doesn’t get it. Me and Jimmy must have typed the length of a book in the comments section yet Mugabe thinks jewish power and media control is totally accidental.
Phil,
Don’t type another book worth/length of comments trying to explain to Mugabe that again.
You already did it many times.
Alex Jones lives rent free in Mugabes head. Sad!
^^^hasbara agent^^^
sad.
He’s a freak
My brother says he remembers everything and has overload. He has Aspergers.
My brother doesn’t know when to stop talking.
Ask your brother to wash his mouth more often during the day. Doing this helped me gain more control over my talking/speech.
It really worked for me.
Maybe the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders is increasing because the higher-functioning ones among them are better suited for modern technology. I don’t know if it’s true, but I’ve heard that autism rates have massively increased in Silicon Valley, presumably because of all the autistic or borderline autistic parents who congregate there.
We now have access to trains and Airplanes. Without them, silicon valley would not exist. Autists invented the first computers.I say the first blacksmiths.
You think autists invented the first blacksmiths?
mistake
were the first blacksmiths
I don’t really know because the Romans had smiths too. pots and pans swords but not trains through as an industrial base. The Romans did not need trains they had roads.
There is a long period between trains and the decline of Roman roads. The medieval period.
yeah. it’s only mush brains who’d think STEM doesn’t require creativity…or that the best students don’t make the best researchers.
does pill even know what scientists, engineers, and mathematicians do all day?
the good students who don’t always make good researchers are called “asians”.
there’s even creativity in organic synthesis.
i was part of a group which found “sonication” to be an effective “reagent”.
hard to believe but true. just passing high frequency sound through the medium made the reaction.
What separates man from beast is intentionality and mindedness – nonhuman animals only behave. Being charitable to hereditarians, “intelligence” is intentionality/cognition/acting for purpose and course this is immeasurable – meaning not able to be quantified. What allows those traits is our minds.
In any case PP, you then run into “How does an IQ test (a test which one needs exposure to the items and structure of) measure one’s ability to adapt”? How is that quantifiable? Can you explain that? Jensen argued to dispense with the term “intelligence” in g factor but he still talked about the so-called consequences/referents of it… That doesn’t make any sense but then again, neither does hereditarianism which assumes that physicalism is true (eg Winegard, Winegard, and Anomaly 2020).
Why would a genetic effect imply physicalism any more than the effect of being concussed by a truck?
Why would a genetic effect imply physicalism any more than the effect of being concussed by Thomas the Tank Engine?
Why would a genetic effect imply physicalism any more than would the effect of being concussed by a train?
a sorting effect between the mechanical mind and the rough emotional.
Why would a genetic effect imply physicalism any more than the effect of being thrown in Oprah’s enclosure, fully coated in peanut butter?
How is animal problem-solving not intentional?
I actually agree with this theory of the autistic brain not able to prune itself. .My son is autistic and can learn spatial material in a short amount of time but is not able to stretch his thinking overtime and cannot identify social cues or life skills in the long run.