Tuesday, 30 June 2015

How to tell if someone has the Endogenous personality type - autonomy, motivation and intelligence

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* The Endogenous Personality refers to someone who is inner-orientated: inner-directed, inner-driven, inner-motivated; one who uses inner m...
Wednesday, 17 June 2015

A critique of functional brain imaging (1995)

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* This is extracted from an un-published essay I wrote in 1995 named A manifesto for research in cognitive neuropsychiatry , with additiona...
Monday, 15 June 2015

The Endogenous personality - its definition, paradox and evolutionary roots in group selection

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* Endogenous = Inner-generated, arising from within (in contrast to be externally-caused or 'Exogenous') * The Endogenous Perso...

Teen genius is mentor-orientated rather than peer-orientated; befriending parents and teachers and authors - rather than having same-age friends

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* That's it, really... *
Monday, 11 May 2015

Visual hallucinations imply 'whole brain' dysfunction; auditory hallucinations not so much

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* It is well known that 'hearing voices' (when nobody is there) is a common sign of the 'functional psychoses' of schizophr...
Tuesday, 28 April 2015

Creativity and Christianity

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* I have recently come to regard creativity as second only to love in God's scale of values; perhaps the second-most-important attribut...
Tuesday, 21 April 2015

Women geniuses - have there been any new ones discovered in the past fifty years?

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* It is a tenet of feminist 'scholarship' that there were women geniuses who were neglected; and a large part of feminist scholarsh...
Thursday, 16 April 2015

What kind of genius for England? (If we could choose.)

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* For me, it would be a  spiritual  leader - in essence a religious leader - who could awaken the true spirits of the English people that a...
Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Be careful before you wish for more geniuses: you might get what you ask for!

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* What makes you think you want more geniuses in the West; what makes you think they would improve matters? * Of course, only geniuses ...
Monday, 23 March 2015

Genius as a perfect storm of synergystic causal factors; golden ages triggered by a coincidence of synergystic geniuses triggering populaton growth

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* It is possible that genius may be a consequence of a 'perfect storm' of several independent causes coming together rarely. For ex...
Friday, 20 March 2015

What can we, should we, do without geniuses?

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* World historical geniuses have all-but disappeared from Western civilization - that is is simply a factual observation. Either we can c...
Thursday, 19 March 2015

The incidence of genius from a Christian perspective - when geniuses are just too dangerous to be risked

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* Since God is good and mortal life has a purpose, it seems reasonable to assume that the disposition of souls into bodies is not a random ...

Where is memory located? Not (just) in our brains

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* For Christians and some other religious people, memory cannot be in the brain - or more precisely, not primarily so. * The brain dies...
Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Peeling-off the layers of genius

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* There are many layers to genius - although typically only those nearest the surface are considered.Some of the main layers are: 1. Soci...
Tuesday, 17 March 2015

The altruism of genius - from an evolutionary perspective

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* In biological, that is evolutionary, terms; genius is an altruistic trait. This means that - on average, in the environment where and w...
Thursday, 12 March 2015

Where is there hope for England?

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* It is an interesting question. Although there is no obvious place or cause for hope in any place of power or prestige, and no realistic...

The fundamental nature of creativity - creativity as the operation of free will and the true self

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* It is hard to define creativity; indeed I have never seen a satisfactory definition. We recognise exceptional creativity, and exceptional...
Friday, 6 March 2015

It was "Agintrans" geniuses of enhanced productivity that made the industrial revolution

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* My thesis here is that English (and some Scottish) geniuses specifically in Agriculture, Industrial production and Transport (for which I...
Wednesday, 4 March 2015

WD Hamilton describes the rise and demise of creative genius as first a group selected, then individually-selected, phenomenon - 1975

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* From WD Hamilton, Innate social aptitudes of man . In Robin Fox (ed.). ASA Studies 4 : Biosocial Anthropology. Malaby Press: London, 1975...

Spengler on the demographic trends leading to mutation accumulation?

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* Mutation accumulation, tending toward mutational meltdown and extinction events, comes from declining population size and the cumulative ...
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...