People should be taught in school that humans are not that smart, and that there are many comparable species in intelligence.
People should be taught in school that humans are not that smart, and that there are many comparable species in intelligence.
This opinion is based on reading people's thoughts on the internet and remembering what I was taught in my own time in school (where they essentially stumbled into teaching that humans were some kind of 'peak' of the evolutionary process)
I think people have waaaaayyyy too much faith in human intelligence and it's leading to the destruction of the world.
1- People keep thinking a scientist or a 'rich entrepreneur' is going to come up with some magic bullet to save the world, if we taught more about how other animals have tools, language, larger and older and more complex brain structures than us - People might realize it's similar to believing that dolphin will arise from the sea with some idea to stop climate change
2- we keep participating in these systems that have been created under the assumption that we are 'making progress'. I would argue that the minority of human invention represents real progress.
3- It leads to undervaluing the earth and taking it for granted. We worship ourselves as gods (literally). Almost everything you have wasn't invented by humans. It was the result of billions of years of selective design. Yet we teach as if things we harvest from nature were 'invented' by humans. In reality, we often have no way to produce or even of conceive of these things without a natural example.
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I think you are mixing up biologics with lack of cultuure. It would be far better to teach critical thinking (which they already do or at least did with me) so that kids learn to diferentiate dumb arguments with good ones. And they already do that in the liguistic class, (whatever is your countrys language) specially when they start teaching about news and the scientific method. But ill give you points for the fact that this is an unpopular opinion.
I think you are mixing up biologics with lack of culture.
Can you expand on what you mean by this? What does a biologic mean in this context and who lacks culture? Here's the definition of biologics I know of
FWIW I don't enjoy being contrarian on this and I'm open to smoothing my opinion. Agreed that critical thinking is a crucial skill and more important than this
I mean that you are atributing an issue about people being dumb and having dumb opinions to the fact that they are humans in a biological sence and that humans as whole is dumber and therefore other species are smart just because humans can have dumb opinions. In my book that makes no sense and makes me think that its mixing up two diferent fields. Thats all.
oh okay, I'd disagree with that take but fair. I think most humans are generally unaware they are getting dumber though, and possibly from the pollution of all that 'amazing tool creation'. A lot of the progress man made as before, we've been resting on our laurels lately and offloading mental tasks to technology and our species may be dumbing down
Well now you are just changing the subject.
But if whe dont question the validity of iq tests (and for the sake of this discusion we wont) then yes, the average has whent down ever since and polution and lead wather may be the initial cause for bad functioning brains since lead in the wather pipes has definetly been correlated with rise of crimes according to this.