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I found the most difficult puzzle I have ever tried.

It gives me a real appreciation of how intelligence works.

Basically, it is that the ability to use a tool requires the ability to deal with many components at once.

How many parts go together. That is you need to understand all parts together at the same time.

My opinion of the ubermensch is satisfactory lower now that I understand Nietzsche viewed it. The ubermensch is just the peak man or woman regarded by society to be superior physically intelligently and morally that is life-affirming not degenerate at all. To me, this sets a low bar. Because anyone will do, to become one. What I am interested in is Geniuses i.e. intelligence. From Age 12 I studied it. I wrote a paper about it in high school for my a.i. project. So moral character and fortitude is nice and all but I have this already, I does not take much. but intelligence is different, The high IQ are super rare. A real Uberman is much higher than Nietzsche’s 145 level set for him. But The Genius, It is like they have a supercomputer in their heads that can understand in the simplest terms what we consider astronomically complicated. It is because they can see things in such simple terms that to them as Einstien said they can explain it to a child.

I was told by a genius on the Kurzweil forum that these people have hard lives because they are as superior to the elite as 135 is to 85. I knew an old woman at work who could not understand what an atom was. I told her they were tiny balls that stick together and we are made of them. This is the way geniuses view everyone in the world almost. Not in a condescending way but as a matter of total isolation. Chris Michael Langan was abused as a child and views all rich people as evil money grabbers.

People believe that Intelligence is not natural but in fact, a very specific way of understanding intelligence is in how we get all the subsystems of the brain to work together. It is called control theory. In the theory were have feedback error-correcting. When we do not understand something the brain generates ideas about what is possibly the case for what we are experiencing. This happens at all levels of a hierarchical structure. The top levels of the hierarchy are actually the emotions because they tell us what is most important. It is then that the details of what happens first and in parallel take place. Without emotions regulating the system, a context cannot be formed in how to deal with the world.

As IQ is not a concrete measure of intelligence many times geniuses are overlooked who do not fit the standard bell curve. Mensa is not the peak. Intelligence regarding the peak is a higher resolution on the object perception. That is not only a quantity exists, but a quality. The brain’s metabolic efficiency allows them to anticipate things before they happen. Reality to them is highly predictable and logical. People may confuse them for psychics. The density and complexity of their brainwave mean they have a deeper sense of reality. And in this people believe we can increase intelligence with metabolic processes. Not only with health and diet (get rid of lead paint) but with super drugs.

The main obstacle is that the neurochemistry of the truly superior genius is highly genetically tuned. You cannot use a trumpet as a flute or a drum as a violin. They just have a complexity in the regulation of emotions that cannot be duplicated at our current technological level. Often it has been suggested that these people are mutants. Their accelerated abilities to hear, taste, touch, smell, and see have an alien-like quality to them. Davinci’s paintings were considered so divine as to not have been created by a human at his time.

In modern times the prevalence of stories where exceptional human beings exist that can see colors that do not exist is actually true. There are people with 4 cones in their retina. They can see 100 million colors compared to the normal 1 million. This is why comparing people at such high levels of intelligence by a deviation becomes ridiculous. Just the number of parts your brain can handle is not the question we should be asking when understanding this category of human beings. We do not know what it is like to understand the world they occupy in their dreams or the ideas of which are inexpressible through any language.

There is a way to quantify intelligence as what number of patterns one recognizes in comparison to others but the true Ubermen have seen and mentalized patterns that have never nor will ever be seen by anyone but them. They have seen things impossible to imagine for anyone but them.

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