IQ—I could hire excellent tutors to make myself more intelligent, though definitely only to a certain point. More to the point, I could hire smart people to think of good ideas for me. I’ll concede that I couldn’t buy the experience of thinking like someone smarter than myself.
emotional states—Hire some psychologists to figure out what experiences causes people to have them, then buy those experiences.
personal achievements—This one I’ll give you; you can’t buy achieving something for yourself.
I could hire excellent tutors to make myself more intelligent
As far as I know you can’t raise your IQ significantly by training.
There is a lot of data about how much can you raise your SAT/GRE/LSAT/etc. scores by tutors and training and that amount is limited, plus most of the gain is test-specific and not properly a rise in g.
More to the point, I could hire smart people to think of good ideas for me
That doesn’t buy you IQ, that buys you solutions to problems. That’s a different thing.
Hire some psychologists to figure out what experiences causes people to have them, then buy those experiences.
Let’s see how that works for achieving moksha (= becoming enlightened) :-D
IQ—I could hire excellent tutors to make myself more intelligent, though definitely only to a certain point. More to the point, I could hire smart people to think of good ideas for me. I’ll concede that I couldn’t buy the experience of thinking like someone smarter than myself.
emotional states—Hire some psychologists to figure out what experiences causes people to have them, then buy those experiences.
personal achievements—This one I’ll give you; you can’t buy achieving something for yourself.
honour—This is a very vague term to me.
As far as I know you can’t raise your IQ significantly by training.
There is a lot of data about how much can you raise your SAT/GRE/LSAT/etc. scores by tutors and training and that amount is limited, plus most of the gain is test-specific and not properly a rise in g.
That doesn’t buy you IQ, that buys you solutions to problems. That’s a different thing.
Let’s see how that works for achieving moksha (= becoming enlightened) :-D
This is a temporary effect and not guaranteed even then, but psychedelic drugs are definitely a thing you can buy.