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POPSAre you clever? Are your rational? The human being is supposed to be an animal capable of rational thinking, however this kind of thinking seems more rare than a priori expected. That's why people with high IQs may act foolishly. IQ tests may measure the brain capacity of thought, but not the use of it people do. The key is not how much can you think, but how rational are your thoughts, how much are you getting from your brain. This is highly related with fallacies and so many things that I'm not going to enumerate them all but let you draw your own conclusions. I can foresee I will be referring to this article for years in debates.
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POPSAvatar There is a strong identification with avatars used in games, which is for sure enhanced with avatar customizability. There isn't much to say, so I'll throw a question: Which is the meaning of life and how real do you need it to be to make sense?
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POPSMemento Memory is often thought to be formed by modifications in neural connections in our brain. However, evidence suggests that there are three types of memory: long term memory, short term memory and working memory. It is hard that structural changes may occur for the formation of short term memory and it is completely impossible for working memory. Speculation: working memory is probably due to neural excitation, and if I recall correctly the number of items that memory may contain is the 'magical' 7 2.
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POPSIllusion of time Our brain crates the perception of time from a succession of neuron firings, with a frequency that depends on the group of neurons considered. However, in stressful situations, more neurons fire and time seems to slow down. Now the purpose is to get the most attention from our brains, more neuron firings and a slower time perception, without burning our brains out.
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POPSFacts are in fact irrelevant It is often more important how is something said than what is actually said. Probably that's the way the human mind works, the memes that are propagated are not the most factual, but the most appealing, intriguing, amusing or surprising. The problem are the consequences for science if the focus is set on communication at any expense instead of accuracy. However, a perfect accuracy with no communication is pointless. Thus, as with all conflicting goals, the way to go is probably a compromise, as it doesn't look like we are changing human nature anytime soon.
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POPSAre you happy with your IQ?
Prepare for the speculation, which is something that I sometimes do, sorry, you have the sources linked so you can draw your own conclusions. High levels of dopamine seem to be associated with contentment, so anxiety is probably related with low levels of dopamine, with is related with high IQ and memory. Once again intelligence and happiness seem to be contrary. The second part is more tricky. It is stated that self-confidence in intelligence may be unrelated with real IQ but is related with grades. What is the cause and the consequence between the high grades and self-confidence? May that mean that IQ tests are in fact not measuring intelligence? It is in fact tricky, but now take the first part again. Self-confidence seems related with high levels of dopamine, which is related with not-so-good IQ, but good grades. So if you are happy with your IQ chances are that it is not so high. Well, that made sense. However the brain is a complex system, a small change may have
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POPSRobocop will care about your normality With so much focus on outlier detection, so much information in the Web and the deeper analysis of this information that more powerful computers and algorithms enable, why not using it for spying citizens finding freaks criminals The more capabilities computers have the better, but ethics will be a task exclusively human for a while.
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