Intelligence?

[rabbitearbandicoot]

what is Intelligence?

Are we more or less Intelligent than those who lived 50 years ago?

Are we more or less Intelligent than those who lived 500 years ago?

Are we more or less Intelligent than those who lived 5000 years ago?

Is a person of today who can read, more intelligent than the people of x,000 years ago who recognised the need for written language and set about designing one (well many)?

I am not talking about learned knowledge although that could be a subject all on it's own - I am talking about Intelligence or the ability to reason, learn.

[janeababe]

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

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@janeababe wrote:

I dont think it matters how intelligent or knowledgable a generation is, if that generation doesnt have any common sense to go with it.

Give me a person with common sense over intellegence any day!

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that's very true, but what do you think about the questions?

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Overall, i think we are less intelligent.  While there are a few outstandingly intellegent folk among the entire population throughout each generation, I tend to lean towards a decline in overalll intellengence in the wider population as a whole.

..... and my commonsense tells me to not get involved into a full on debate about it 😉

*wink wink*

[rabbitearbandicoot]

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@janeababe wrote:

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

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@janeababe wrote:

I dont think it matters how intelligent or knowledgable a generation is, if that generation doesnt have any common sense to go with it.

Give me a person with common sense over intellegence any day!

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that's very true, but what do you think about the questions?

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Overall, i think we are less intelligent.  While there are a few outstandingly intellegent folk among the entire population throughout each generation, I tend to lean towards a decline in overalll intellengence in the wider population as a whole.

..... and my commonsense tells me to not get involved into a full on debate about it 😉

*wink wink*

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chicken 

[bluecat*dancing]

roast chicken?

[rabbitearbandicoot]

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@bluecat*dancing wrote:

roast chicken?

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on that subject, what is the difference between roast and baked?