WHAT HAS INTELLIGENCE BROUGHT US

BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO INTELLIGENCE

• Different definitions
• Inheritable vs. Plastic
• Admiration for high intelligence
• Exploration with intense focus

To What Extent Does the Focus on Intelligence Impact Society?

LENSES & PERSPECTIVES

• Social: intelligence test & social division
• Scientific: genetics vs. plasticity
• Ethical: justification & exploitation

Social Lens: Intelligence Test

• provides information
• has limited abilities
• causes restrictions & stereotypes

Social Lens: Social Division

• Education system
• Hierarchy
• Discrimination & social division

Scientific Lens: Heredity

• The Adoption Project
• Genetic Engineering: Super-intelligence
• Advancing technology breakthrough

Scientific Lens: Plasticity

• Intelligence training
• Improvement on cognitive skills
• Lack of transfer

Ethical Lens: Genetic Engineering

• Distortion of human nature
• Diseases
• Dominance

Ethical Lens: Intelligence Training

• Driven by economic profit
• Exaggerates effects

Synthesis

• Equality: ban unfair treatment
• Safety: scientifically & ethically safe
• Authenticity: clean out false information
• Diversity: value different traits

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
--------Einstein

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Council for Responsible Genetics. "Human Genetic Engineering Current Science and Ethical Implications." Council for Responsible Genetics. n.d. 9th April 2015.

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