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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (92562)	7/16/2012 2:09:31 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219961

Flynn has written a book correcting you: he says to think for yourself, not just accept handed down thinking from "experts" or anyone, including doting parents. < Monday, 18 June, 2012 - 16:12 Jim Flynn, an Otago University emeritus professor and international expert on IQ and human intelligence, is on a mission. He wants to change how we think about the modern world and our place in it. In The Torchlight List, published in 2010, he argued that reading great literature can change your life by providing a working knowledge of history and the human condition - and could be better than a university education. In his new book Fate & Philosophy: A Journey through Life's Great Questions (Awa Press, $33) he looks at the tough moral choices human beings face every day, and the answers provided by philosophers and scientists over the centuries. His message: make your own decisions about what you believe, and resist subconscious conditioning inherited from parents, religion and other influences. 'There is,' he writes, 'great satisfaction in questioning what you believe. Understanding ethics will cure you of wanting some authority to tell you what is right and wrong. Understanding science will inoculate you against a whole legion of nonsense, from astrology to the Bermuda Triangle to whether people can use psychic powers to bend spoons. Understanding religious experience will inoculate you against childish concepts of god.' Flynn also examines groundbreaking scientific developments in brain research and the discovery of dark matter in the universe. Will this new knowledge render philosophy - the very idea that we can determine our own fate - obsolete? The Torchlight List and Fate & Philosophy are the first two books in Flynn's Modern World trilogy, which he says will provide the tools for fully understanding and participating in contemporary life. The third is due next year. Fate & Philosophy will be released by Awa Press on June 21. RRP NZ $33.> He and I agree. It's a Kiwi thing. We don't think we have to just accept handed down edicts. Mqurice

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (92562)	7/16/2012 2:29:37 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219961

BS, I guess you know that quoting a couple of examples of women who are a bit brighter than average doesn't falsify the theory? But perhaps you have not studied statistics so have actually misunderstood how these things work. <My daughter is very bright with a myriad of talents and above average athleticism.. I have a lovely niece (sister's daughter) who also very bright, also top grades and a crack athlete.. Her brother's girlfriend is another very bright young woman just doing her medical residency and was a great soccer player.. ethnically we have two very mixed from my family with recent northern European, Mediterranean and Asian roots and one that would be considered Pure Laine by the Quebec sovereigntists .. most common thread among them ?.. good genes raised in an environment with no preference for the advancement of males over females.. I know I know.. I am misunderstanding something again :O) > You are of course correct that brain genes by themselves are nothing. It's only when the DNA is actually grown in an actual living brain in an integrated interaction with 3D reality that the brain and therefore intelligence can do its work. Nobody has ever said that full blown intelligence can be created in a brain which has never experienced reality, or has lived a deprived set of circumstances including toxins, lack of nutrients and lack of experience and feedback loops. It's plain that 3 years less brain growth time has a negative effect in terms of final outcomes in brain function. You'd have to come up with some theory on why more development time is a good thing for males from nature's point of view if you don't buy the obvious fact that human brains take a long time to get up to speed. Looks as though shorting AT&T would be a good thing - promoting women for gender affirmative action purposes has a very bad track record. Thanks for Flynn's email. His sensible answer would be "Here's my study - read it" which I have not been able to do yet. So I am not going to criticize his results on the basis of comments by some journalists who can't read. It's nice to see you agree that intelligence is inherited and that genes without the potential cannot be made into silk purses. Mqurice