[Ron] How this all relates to pre-intellect is my main focus. In this light we gain an understanding that by what is Pre-intellectual is that which is un-familiar, not of family Knowing, dynamic. Individual experience. In this way DQ influences the individual which influences the family And this is where technology comes into play with the Families ability to adapt and survive.
[Krimel] This is a point I have attempted to stay focused on with only marginal success. There is no single thing that can be called "intelligence". What we think of as intelligence is in fact a cluster of abilities and functions that get integrated into a coherent whole in healthy individuals. While much remains to be studied, we know for example that nerves in the retina transduce light energy into electro-chemical impulses in the nervous system. Those impulses are directed through the optic nerve toward the back of the skull. Before arriving in the primary visual cortex they pass through and are filtered by midbrain structures that imbue them with emotional content. It is this emotional content that adds preintellectual value. There is an excellent Nova program that touches on this. You can see notes and commentary on it here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mind/. In the program they discuss a patient who, after suffering a brain injury, became convinced that his parents were being replaced with identical fakes. He also believed that their apartment had been substituted for an identical double that was really not their home. Upon study it was determined that the injury was interfering with the emotional processing of visual information. So that he saw his parents but in the absence of any emotional coloring of his perception he concluded they were imposters. Another subject in the program suffered from seizures in the temporal lobe of the brain which resulted in a flood of emotional input. He reported very deep religious impulses and the conviction that he was God and had a very deep but inexpressible connection to everything in the universe. There are structures in our brains that process sensation, compare it to our previous representations, color it with emotion and meaning. When everything gets put together we call it intelligence or the lack there of. Which regard to "intelligence" and what intelligence tests measure, current thinking suggests that it has something to do with short term memory processing. We can only hold a limited amount of information in attentional awareness at any given time. The magic number of this is seven plus or minus 2. In computer terms this is a buffer or an area they can be read and written to quickly. Intelligence tests seem to capture something about the amount of information that can be processed in this area and how quickly we can run data through it. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
