Topic: Can We Derive Hope From Progress And People Becoming Smarter Over Time - page 2. (Read 321 times)

A drawback about content economy is it's amplifying one worldview, especially if it is seen within a centralized social media. People are being bombarded by advertisements and algorithmic content, few questions that would arise is does it really benefit the brain as a whole? And how many percentages does people are really comprehending the near real-time content that they view with critical thinking/thought?

Do note that the information flow we could get is limited, and it is solely based on our choices. Most people are likely just freely let their life controlled by an eloquence machine learning that maximizes screen time.

People becoming smarter ? We getting cyborgs and at the same time using machines everywhere, what you think is gonna happen ? There are loads of things happening as well in countries like Japan where people are getting their food delivered by the robots as well, I do think that this is just going to increase and get better over time as well. I think when we talk about people being intellectual beings, they will ofcourse get better over time, after homo erectus we got loads of new species, even lost the one with more cranial capacity. People will ofcourse become smarter to integrate themselves with the growing world there is also a epic research telling us how the brain have decreased in volume :

It's definitely not the same as cranial capacity, intelligence is not like the movie where you take the pill and use 100% of your brain, it doesn't work like that, we use various sections every once in a while, this I do think when we are going to be processing data it would depend on your : environment+ genetics 🧬 but ofcourse the survival of the fittest is going to pertain.

A counter argument could be that, the modern world involves use of computers and devices, many of which does most of the critical thinking for us, making people need to do less and hence process less amounts of information independently.
Simple tasks like typing is now heavily promoted by text predictors, which only requires the individual to enter the first 2 or 3 letters they associate to that word and it would take it from there, this has been linked to reduced ability to recognize spellings and word structure in some.

The era of search engines also means people retain less and consult Google at the slightest inquiry, as opposed to before, when learning was more practical.

This improved technology is of course a positive as it makes learning significantly easier and automated but the ease of it all could make the newer generation lazier overtime.

Discussing human evolution and progress so far to being smarter than in the past, we have to look at the theories that have been formulated from one of the evolutionary, the study by Charles Darwin will be resourceful. With Darwin's theory we could see the evolutionary progress of humans until it got to the missing link from where humans became bipedal. There so much to discuss on that actually but the point is to say that human is the most gifted and talented to dominate the world with all sorts of innovation and creation to be able to adapt and subdue her environment which ascribes man to culture and traditions based on her environment and here the theory of adaptation and natural selection referred to Spencer deserves some thought. After I found a place in the bible (in Daniel 12) making reference that at the end time, knowledge will increase, I then got some understanding that it was natural that the increase are seen in all human lives like socio-economics, politics, religion, agriculture , now blockchain technological growth is the new rave.

I've been taking 30 mg of noopept every morning for a while, and I can attest that it does help daily to improve cognitive performance. I initially considered buying Adderall, but when I learned that it required a prescription and that you must have been diagnosed with ADHD, I instead looked for a nootropic that had effects comparable to ADD but didn't require a prescription and could be purchased over-the-counter (OTC) and luckily using BTC

The only drawback is that as the dose wears off, you start to feel lethargic, but generally, the heigtened focus and prolonged alertness are fairly useful, especially when engaging in activities that requires too much brain power or watching tutorials for an extended period of time.

In addition, it can be said that some fans of brain biohacking are very brave in order to use all sorts of nootropic drugs to further activate their thought processes. Medicine also does not stand still; all the drugs that are being developed to improve people's IQ naturally turn society into a devoured information source. Dave Asprey, author of the book "Brain Biohacking," talks about this very interesting topic.

The only difference between artificial intelligence in 1970 and 2022 is the amount of data chips can process.

In past decades, there were no processors with the computational capacity to calculate every possible move in chess. Self driving AI cars did not become possible until processors had improved to a point where they could effectively process large streams of data fed to them by sensors and navigational equipment.

Based on surface observations of advances made in artificial intelligence. A direct correlation can be drawn between higher data processing capacity and intelligence.

People being exposed to larger streams of data and information in the form of radio, television and the internet. Coupled with greater systemic threats from the environment in the form of financial scams. Along with more avenues and options for communication and complex social interactions. Could all converge to drive human intelligence in an uptrend over the long term.

It is possible that we're already seeing evidence of this happening. While it may have taken many many years for people to accept heliocentrism and the concept of the world being a sphere, rather than flat. Today people might be far more willing to test, challenge and overturn their base assumptions. It could be one indication of human intelligence growing and developing at a faster rate, in contrast to previous eras of history.

I've been under the impression that intelligence is directly linked to how well the brain is able to make and revisit connections between neurons/ideas it's made.

It's certainly possible that the people who handle the most raw data, reading and information will have be able to become a lot more intelligent but I think there are other things too (such as receiving information in multiple formats, I can learn something well if someone else already knows it and can quickly explain it and then answer any questions that arise).

People that overload themselves with information though or ones who try to learn too quickly are likely to remain overloaded (eg notice patterns that don't exist) and make to bad decisions.

There is much discussion and debate over how humans developed the capacity to become extremely skilled at making tools, leading to the development of big brain social dynamics.

Some scientists claim the pack hierarchy of mammals coupled with the dyanamic social interactions it necessitates. Drove the evolution of primates, dogs and dolphins towards larger cubic area cognition in contrast to body size. Complex social interactions require the processing of greater volumes of data. Which leads the brains of pack animals towards gaining in mass over time. This trend could align with greater capacity for tool making. But of course there are other considerations. A larger brain size requires more energy. Which could allow for high energy warm blooded mammals to develop better in this area. In contrast to cold blooded reptiles who are more dependent upon temperature for energy generation.

In the title, I claimed "people are becoming smarter over time".

If it is true that pack animals developed larger brain sizes through the necessity of processing larger raw amounts of data in complex social interactions.

It is possible people of today. Will develop larger brain sizes. Through the necessity of processing larger volumes of raw data. Found in daily advertisements, commercials and internet content. Our society being proliferate with scams forces us to engage in critical thinking. If the average person is exposed to more than 2,000 advertisements and commercials per day. That could give them 2,000 more opportunities to engage in critical thought and consider how many of those ads are scams. Than those in a pre electronic era had to consider.

Degrees of hyper communication introduced by the digital era. Where people can not communicate using social media, email, phone texts and other avenues of communication. Could also hyper accelerate any brain gains that were originally made by an increase in pack based interactions.

Processing greater amounts of raw data being a necessity in a modern world. It is possible that the trend will drive human evolution in a way that forces us to use our brains more. The long term effects of which could lead to modern people being better equipped to solve problems using raw cognition in contrast to our predecessors of past eras.

This could result in people of the current era developing larger brains. Becoming smarter. Which might give us hope that we can better overcome some of the obstacles life throws at us.