More? If anything, I suspect thinking about quantum physics takes less intelligence; it’s just not what we’ve evolved to do. An abstraction inversion, of sorts.
Hm. I also have this pet theory that some past event (that one near-extinction?) has caused humans to have less variation in intelligence than most other species, thus causing a relatively egalitarian society. Admittedly, this is something I have close to zero evidence for—I’m mostly using it for fiction—but it would be interesting to see, if you’ve got evidence for or (I guess more likely) against.
Human intelligence can go down pretty low at either end of life—and in sickness. There is a bit of a lump in the middle, though—where intelligence is not so widely distributed.
The intelligence required to do jobs is currently even more spread out. As automation progresses, the low end of the ability range will be swallowed up.
More? If anything, I suspect thinking about quantum physics takes less intelligence; it’s just not what we’ve evolved to do. An abstraction inversion, of sorts.
Hm. I also have this pet theory that some past event (that one near-extinction?) has caused humans to have less variation in intelligence than most other species, thus causing a relatively egalitarian society. Admittedly, this is something I have close to zero evidence for—I’m mostly using it for fiction—but it would be interesting to see, if you’ve got evidence for or (I guess more likely) against.
Human intelligence can go down pretty low at either end of life—and in sickness. There is a bit of a lump in the middle, though—where intelligence is not so widely distributed.
The intelligence required to do jobs is currently even more spread out. As automation progresses, the low end of the ability range will be swallowed up.