Question: Is there any way to enhance the ability or improve the cells intelligence to make you smarter. If so can this done by surgery and what effects would it have on human society.
Not by surgery, but by experiencing and learning new things we make more connections between our brain cells, which in turn makes us smarter and better able to do things!
Doing different problem solving activities and using your brain a lot helps you to do things that might be considered smart.
As far as I know there’s not one particular part of the brain which affects how smart you are – and we definitely don’t have the technology yet to make someone smarter that way!!
People are looking at whether this can be done by stimulating the brain, either with magnetic or electrical fields. There seems to be serious limits on how much improvement we can get though — it works better for those whose brains might not function as well in the first place (e.g., people who have cognitive impairments in the context of a psychiatric disorder). We might just have to accept what we have! 🙂
One of the problems with improving or increasing intelligence is with defining and quantifying it, we haven’t really agreed on what exactly intelligence is and how to measure it.
For instance: people over the years have been doing gradually better at IQ tests, just because they’re getting better at doing tests in general!
Not by surgery, but by experiencing and learning new things we make more connections between our brain cells, which in turn makes us smarter and better able to do things!
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Doing different problem solving activities and using your brain a lot helps you to do things that might be considered smart.
As far as I know there’s not one particular part of the brain which affects how smart you are – and we definitely don’t have the technology yet to make someone smarter that way!!
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People are looking at whether this can be done by stimulating the brain, either with magnetic or electrical fields. There seems to be serious limits on how much improvement we can get though — it works better for those whose brains might not function as well in the first place (e.g., people who have cognitive impairments in the context of a psychiatric disorder). We might just have to accept what we have! 🙂
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One of the problems with improving or increasing intelligence is with defining and quantifying it, we haven’t really agreed on what exactly intelligence is and how to measure it.
For instance: people over the years have been doing gradually better at IQ tests, just because they’re getting better at doing tests in general!
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