Measuring Intelligence
A reader says this: I think you are wrong about Edison; he was way above average in intelligence. He averaged 95 percent on quizzes and stuff…read the below:
“Thomas Edison had an encyclopedic memory and expected job applicants to have a similar knowledge. The test he administered to every job seeker had 150 questions; each test was tailored for a specific job. Some of the things college graduates were expected to know:”
JJ Much of what society considers as intelligence is really just a reflection of good memory based on the fortune of the person being born with a good quality computer brain.
Edison thought that a good memory was an important sign of intelligence so he devised a test to discover such people. It is interesting that Albert Einstein took his test and failed. After failing he said that he did not see the need to clutter his mind with information easily found in a textbook.
I side with Einstein on that piece of wisdom.
Edison was indeed intelligent but not because he had a good memory but that he used what he had to the best ways possible. Without his iron will and determination he would have been just another dreamer.
Which person do you think would produce the greatest literary work? Shakespeare on an old 1986 computer or an ego-based politician on a new MacBook Pro?
A Shakespeare does not need the highest quality equipment to produce a great work.
The IQ tests are not a test of real intelligence either but are a reflection of the quality of the computer mind in many cases. Many people in the genius category have produced no work of significance.
I have never done that great on tests of any kind and usually score about average yet some here consider me fairly intelligent. That’s because I make the best of my computer brain.
The greatest sign of intelligence is to ask the right question and then seek the answer. This is what few people do.
Karma and the Brain
Reader: Ok, how come some people are fortunate enough to be born with a good computer brain?
JJ: Karma and needed lessons to be absorbed.
Reader: Thanks, JJ, can you give an example of how karma or life lessons may help one have a very good computer mind?
JJ If you have good karma and in your next life there is no need for some significant lesson requiring limitations then you can select a well-equipped body. If you desire to have a body with an exceptional brain then it will be available.
On the other hand, one may suffer limitations through karma. For instance, the entity may have developed feelings of superiority and ridiculed people who he thought were not that intelligent. In this case he may need to take a body with a brain that doesn’t function so well so he will learn to not feel so superior for merely having better equipment than the other guy.
Then too the person may have misused his intelligence and took advantage of others so he chose a lower level brain making him the one who is taken advantage of to learn a lesson.
Group karma could also cause limitations. Let us say a great mind like Tesla reincarnates but our group karma doesn’t qualify us to receive all that he could give us. In this case he may have to assume a situation that doesn’t allow him to develop the potential he had mentally in the last life.
The karma of a group, a nation or the world determines the quality of souls that will manifest to lead them. The world is not yet worthy of the appearance of one like Christ, but hopefully will soon be.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men around him. – Niccolò Machiavelli
July 8, 2012
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