Friday, 27 February 2015

We underestimate the impact of Great Men, and the considerable time-lag of societal change

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* In considering the rise and decline of civilisations, nowadays we nearly always seriously underestimate the size of impact which one per...
Wednesday, 25 February 2015

Genius and social intelligence (High Psychoticism and the creative genius personality may be conceptualized as social intelligence co-opted for abstract thinking)

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Humans are social animals: most Men see the world through social spectacles. But a genius is not like this. The genius does not have a s...

The necessity of genius for societal problem-solving - much greater than recognized due to the recent 'surplus' of geniuses

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* During the 1800s it was generally recognised that 'great men' - including geniuses - were essential to the survival,  problem-sol...
Tuesday, 24 February 2015

How could Mouse Utopia lead to the maladaptive nonsense of New Left Political Correctness? Mainly by allowing it, not directly causing it

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* If it seems plausible that the Mouse Utopia accumulation of deleterious genetic mutations may have had a role in the modern phenomenon o...
Thursday, 19 February 2015

Mouse Utopia as an explanation for Political Correctness

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* The Mouse Utopia term is explained below ^ * It is possible, perhaps even plausible, that the usual type of explanation for the self...
Friday, 13 February 2015

Introversion/ Extraversion and Neuroticism/ Emotional Stability in Genius

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* I have written extensively on the Psychoticism trait  - its nature and role in Genius; but have so-far neglected to discuss Eysenck's...
Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Creativity in low-Psychoticism people (i.e. creativity in average and normal people)

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* Although creativity is strongest in those high in the personality trait of Psychoticism (P), it is not restricted to those of high-P per...
Monday, 9 February 2015

How - and why - genius is group selected - massive cultural amplification

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* It may be wondered why I am so confident that genius is group-selected (apart from the fact that Michael A Woodley persuaded me!) conside...
Wednesday, 4 February 2015

Therapeutic benefits of stimulant and sedative psychoactive drugs explained in terms of sleep dissociation

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* Using the analysis of sleep as a dissociated state, http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/all-natural-sleep-is-dissociated-...
Tuesday, 3 February 2015

All natural sleep is a dissociated state

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* There is never a time during sleep when all of the brain is sleeping - and the sleep cycle is a rotation between one part of the brain sl...
Wednesday, 28 January 2015

The nature of the 'genie' of creativity

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* Genius can be conceptualized as a 'genie' within us - the word genie being derived from the Roman concept of a guardian and tutel...
Monday, 26 January 2015

The way of the subcreator - the 'genie' of genius

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* In considering creativity from a scientific perspective, much can be said - but at the heart of the phenomenon there is a mystery. I ...
Sunday, 25 January 2015

The 'inner' nature of trait Psychoticism - hard-wired to be inner-attentive, inner-aware, inner-engaged, inner-motivated - an alternative to the broad-association/ natural selection model of creativity

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* If the standard 'natural selection' model of creativity is regarded as deficient, as previously argued - I mean the 'Simonto...

What is the creative bit of creativity in high Psychoticism-trait individuals (such as creative geniuses)?

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* It is worth noting at the outset that here I am doing science, and science rules out using supernatural explanations - so if creativity r...
Thursday, 15 January 2015

Psychosis and creativity - Creativity is a coordinated, adaptive package - and *not* just a lucky combinations of deficits

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* In what follows I will argue that the Psychosis (or the psychotic phenomena) which characterise enhanced Creativity are distinct in form...
Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Psychoticism versus Psychosis: the personality trait of Psychoticism versus the illness state of being Psychotic

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* HJ Eysenck deserves primary credit for discovering and formulating the personality trait of Psychoticism (P) - but I believe the concept ...
Tuesday, 13 January 2015

Psychoticism versus Psychopathy

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* Eysenck's personality trait of Psychoticism is - overall - probably the best description of the typical personality of a creative in...
Saturday, 10 January 2015

CG Jung - the dishonest genius

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* CG Jung is unusual among geniuses, in that he was dishonest about his own work and its implications. That he was a genius I think is co...
Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Why should modern society - why should *any* society - be bothered about geniuses?

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* The reason is not that geniuses deserve more concern than other kinds of people - the bottom-line reason is societal self-interest. G...