Does intelligence amount to an amount of something in our heads?
What manner of intelligence knows itself as an IQ score?
Are there features of intelligence that we haven’t thought about because we lack the intelligence?
What makes us think that intelligence is the driver of thought?
Does the intellect recognise itself by satisfying its own expectations?
Are the ‘intelligentsia’ best placed to know what intelligence is?
Is intelligence the antidote to stupidity? Is it sensible to conclude that intelligence makes us sensible?
Does intelligence evolve by making gains – to become more than it was?
Does the idea of intelligence colour our minds with the notion that some colours are better than others?
Is high culture the guardian of high intelligence, or the optimum medium for its cultivation?
Is IQ the diamond standard of the mind – prized and shaped for its showiness, but artificially over-stated, over-valued and rarefied?
Is everything about IQ so good that anything leading to its reduction has to be bad?
Can species-differences in intelligence be understood in terms of quantifiable differences?
Will the cause of intelligence explain its effects?
What kind of intelligence needs to affirm itself with proof of its prowess?
Is a measure of intelligence the measure of our understanding?
Is reason the bastion of the intellect, enabling us to tell good from bad and discover the right thing to do by weighing the evidence? Then does a higher intellect give us a higher morality?
Are we at liberty to make ourselves more or less intelligent?
Mike Laidler
Postscript
“The IQ scores of young people have begun to fall … it’s a decline equivalent to at least 7 points per generation.
“Is it because people are on their laptops … need to write stuff down to be a bit cleverer?”
“Is it possible that the nature of intelligence is changing in the digital age and cannot be captured with traditional IQ tests?”
Links https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b5qn7p
https://streamable.com/3pcsq (Sky news)
https://www.the times.co.uk