Mysteries and Bizarre Things:

How do you know Middle Easterners have low IQs?

They were the ones who invented agriculture, writing, cities and a whole lot of other things. Poverty of modern day Middle East is likely due to structural and cultural reasons more than anything else.

Walther von Oldenburg wrote:How do you know Middle Easterners have low IQs?

They were the ones who invented agriculture, writing, cities and a whole lot of other things. Poverty of modern day Middle East is likely due to structural and cultural reasons more than anything else.

It is mostly due to the borders designed by western countries. And not only middle east but also all africa.

Their countries are full of different group (ethnical, religious...) that spend their time fighting togather.

Walther von Oldenburg wrote:How do you know Middle Easterners have low IQs?

They were the ones who invented agriculture, writing, cities and a whole lot of other things. Poverty of modern day Middle East is likely due to structural and cultural reasons more than anything else.

Yeah, the Greeks and the Chinese also did lots of great things. You are missing some essential knowledge: there is too much inbreeding in the ME countries:

https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/muslim-inbreeding-huge-problem-and-people-dont-want-talk-about-it

Over time such social behaviour degrades the average IQ of the population. So this is not just knee-jerk racism. This is objective criticism.

I watched a program on Pakistan and the growing problems with mental issues due to inbreeding.

Muslim nations marry their first cousins. Most at least. I know nations like Egypt frown upon that. But North Sudan, Pakistan and the like have major issues with inbreeding.

Brain eating amoebae. Nice.

Inbreeding exists in Jewish community too. As Jews rarely marry non Jews. I remember this has led to some exclusive diseases. Among Muslims, rightly has been said, marriage to close relatives allowed. Leading to deformity and disease. But unfortunately among these religious groups, they hold on to antiquated practices. With no basis in science at times. This strict adherence or religious dogma, is encouraged by those in power. Since old religion text, does not provide concise modern scientific or medical or social discourse. Therefore it does not disrupt the status quo. Keeps the minority in power. So we have to be brave, and say Islam or Christianity or Judaism or Hinduism or Aristotle or Plato or Marx....... Can be wrong !

I don't think myself that brain size itself is alone important. It has to do with how much is free for information processing. Also how many connections are there. But again, most animals now becoming extinct, tend to have larger brains. Including humans. So is large brain good, or a disability?

Another bizzare experience of mine, is that as I am growing older, time seems to be speeding up. It started in my forties. Now at sixty, one week has the same length of time as say did  one day. When I was twenty!  Does this mean that at the point of death, my perception of time will be almost zero. Events speeding up. I will glimpse the end of universe ? Any others like this? Maybe Amoebae attacked my brain....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetacean_intelligence

Videos: Scientists Rediscover Chameleon Last Seen Over a Century Ago

Voeltzkow's chameleon (Furcifer voeltzkowi), a unique and evasive species, has been rediscovered by German researchers in its natural habitat of Madagascar some 100 years after it seemingly disappeared.

A research paper authored by Frank Glaw and published in the Salamandra German Journal of Herpetology on October 30 announced that German researchers in Madagascar had rediscovered F. voeltzkowi “in its natural habitat close to its type locality” while on “a targeted expedition.”

“Our rediscovery expedition was conducted at the end of the rainy season from 25 March to 3 April 2018 in the Mahajanga region in northwestern Madagascar,” the report detailed.

Within months, a chameleon of the species will hatch during the rainy season, grow rapidly, spar, mate and die. Female F. voeltzkowi in particular are said to exude colorful patterns while encountering males, pregnant or stressed.

https://sputniknews.com/environment/202011031080962006-videos-scientists-rediscover-chameleon-last-seen-over-a-century-ago-/

I am sure if Douglas Adams knew about this he would have included it in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Interesting series of interviews regarding nature of human consciousness. In my view the phenomenon of pre-cognitive dreams , telepathy, remote viewing  and premonitions and visions  ( people who report ghosts), ESP and prophecy explain the same process, possible only if human ( and some domestic animals ) thoughts ( souls) exist outside of our time and space in another dimension. And that our thoughts can relate or communicate and have perceptions of their own in this domain. At times two souls align and communicate their contents, and respective human brains pick up these communications. Mishlove's " New thinking allowed" interviews are recommended.

https://youtu.be/phVDnZB-iYg

https://youtu.be/30JTeWttTac

Edit : Reincarnation ( documented in a few newborn infants), could be viewed as a class of remote viewing ( documented in many crime investigations), that affects the very young. The viewer mistakenly believing by others to be the dead person reincarnated. Instead of  a prolonged remote viewing experience. A Communion of souls and not the reincarnation of souls. Since God is not short of a few fresh souls..

Walther von Oldenburg wrote:How do you know Middle Easterners have low IQs?

They were the ones who invented agriculture, writing, cities and a whole lot of other things. Poverty of modern day Middle East is likely due to structural and cultural reasons more than anything else.

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@ 1 1E

The wealthiest nations won the greater number of Olympic gold . This has nothing to do with innate or genetic superiority . The IQ measure ,  is about  developed mental ability because of educational opportunity . To measure accurately  then any possible genetic determinants of intelligence , one must compare different racial groups within identical environments .

@ IYle6

The developed part of fish is actually the mouth . The nose are the two small dots above this .

@ GarryB

Thanks for remembering . About death , my personal view is that , strangely I never remember being dead . Or being dead and then coming to life . To me I  was never dead , since I would remember coming to life .

@Garry

The annoying thing is that as one gets older the brain gets better at filtering out external information. This is why, in my opinion,
the flow of time appears to increase. We basically get a coarser time sampling interval.

I also think the human lifespan is way too short. Some people claim that it is right sized but I have not heard any real arguments
to back this up. Only in cheesy James Bond movies is the productivity of some mastermind so high that they can achieve country-level
exploits in a few years. In the real world almost nothing can be done by an individual in a few years. Humans are able to breed
like rabbits but are not able to live all that long. I would exchange the latter restriction for the former excess.

Its both amazing and sad that entire families of organisms can barely fossilize over hundreds of millions of years.

GarryB wrote:We don't notice most of the fossils... the white cliffs of Dover... sand stone... and of course oil...

Those are the most common fossils. Actually fossilization of anything other than shells happens incredibly rarely. There was a study that if the entire population of the US died suddenly, on the territory of the US only around 60 dead humans would be fossilized.

@ Limb

About wings . How did the Dinosaurs learn to fly ? Did they get up one morning and decide to evolve wings over the next million years ? And the ancient Angler fish . Did it decide to evolve an artificial lure , over the next million years ? A few feathers don't make a wing . A lump on the Fish's back , don't make a lure . It seems pointless to spend energy developing these appendages for an organism . That had no apparent use , especially for the Fish . Is it a sign for intelligent design ? Or a sign for random events ? Occurring by chance . The probability of an event can be calculated . But if it is so low , as to approach zero , then that event is not by chance . They discovered the footprints of early humans in Rocks in England , dating back 800,000 years . But the story was quickly put into storage , out of view . Since it would take the bread out of many university professor's mouths . Those who say humans came out of Africa some 40,000 years ago . There may be many hidden Fossils .

@ Garry B

"....….it comes to everyone in their time......."

Agree . Once you are young , many rare but important incidents are missed . They are experienced later . But once they happen , then they change the nature of reality for the person . As one example in my case . Not long ago , I moved to a new house . My next door neighbour started to harrass me badly . I warned him , but it got worse . At this time , I was attending a local activity club , at night . There I met a woman , who only attended for one session . For some reason this woman started to talk to me about philosophy . And said that she had psychic ability ! Our conversation then turned to my troublesome neighbour . And I said to this woman , that I would not mind doing some damage to this neighbour , an offensive and rude man !

She then said  that all I had to do , is to think of doing harm to him in my mind ! I did not think much about this at the time . But in the later months , one night it came to my mind . As my neighbour was still causing problems , I decided to follow the advice of this woman . At night , I sat down , and in my mind , thought that I wanted him to be harmed !

A week later , I decided very strangely to buy my local newspaper . You must understand that I very rarely buy this paper . Perhaps less than once a year . I was looking through the pages , when I noticed that this neighbour had been arrested and convicted for a crime and put away for fifteen years ! His house became vacant and his family also moved out . As his crime was a crime of a bad sort !

The probability of such events occurring by chance must be so low , as to be impossible . Yet it is hard for me also to think of them being caused in this way . If causally linked then it points out to the fact that human thought and consciousness and material events are linked in very strange ways . Stranger than fiction . I wonder if any posters here have any strange experiences ?

Not taking about religion or God . But human consciousness . Now I am not a statistician , but probability of these events I described being causally linked are astronomically low . But they have a low non-zero value , meaning that they can probably exist , or do probably exist . Events with such low probability do not exist at macro - level , that we study normally using statistics . But they seem normal for small scale quantum events . Electrons and sub-atomic particles . Our Brains could emit or receicve these signals , according to quantum theory .


https://veryinteresting.io/posts/lss4x9

I think reality has more than one layer as far as humans are concerned. Our perception only scratches one of them.

The spooky correlations are not unphysical. Quantum mechanics appears to be the base of matter-energy and likely
space-time as well. The so-called classical limit where magically all the quantum mechanics properties get washed out
at larger scales is basically BS. There may be some averaging effect but it cannot totally hide the fuzzy and nonlocal
underlying reality. Macroscopic quantum entanglement must exist. So all "observers" are entangled with all the other
physical systems and each other and this entanglement is all about "spooky action at a distance" that "violates" the
speed of light.

There is interesting cosmological research on this subject:

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/somethingdeeplyhidden/

https://arxiv.org/a/carroll_s_1.html

I think that Americans and Russians both conducted studies . Some results may be secret . But some were leaked . I may be having skillz  ! I thought about doing harm to this man , and he went to prison , shortly after . Like the film , Men who stare at Goats .


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-PXWlnwtZU



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats