There are plenty of things I dont know, but I have a high enough IQ that I can learn any of them if I choose to. If it's incredibly complex you might need to bring me up to speed on prerequisite knowledge, but I'll pick it up quickly.
However, there are plenty of low IQ people out there who struggle to manage basic tasks and are incapable of learning complex ones. I'm not a theoretical physicist because that sounds like a boring way to imvest my time, but the average mouthbreather isnt because they flunked out of fifth grade algebra and couldnt become one if they tried.
What is it like to be low IQ? Do you have a conscious awareness of what is possible, but are aware you arent capable of it? E.g. the way I can look at a 600 barbell and understand how someone else would lift it, despite lacking the roids and edge case genetics to do so?
Or do you drift through life like a dream where other people do things that might as well be magic because you cant conceive of how they do them? E.g. if you see a train floating in a dream you wouldnt think to ask "how", you just acknowledge that it does by magic. Do low IQ people make the same handwave assumption IRL? "Oh, floating train? Magic!" Rather than thinking through it logically to determine if it there's a concealed rail they missed, or an overhead cable, or maglev system relying upon superconductors, or somesuch?
There are plenty of things I dont know, but I have a high enough IQ that I can learn any of them if I choose to. If it's incredibly complex you might need to bring me up to speed on prerequisite knowledge, but I'll pick it up quickly.
However, there are plenty of low IQ people out there who struggle to manage basic tasks and are incapable of learning complex ones. I'm not a theoretical physicist because that sounds like a *boring* way to imvest my time, but the average mouthbreather isnt because they flunked out of fifth grade algebra and couldnt become one if they tried.
What is it like to be low IQ? Do you have a conscious awareness of what is possible, but are aware you arent capable of it? E.g. the way I can look at a 600 barbell and understand how someone else would lift it, despite lacking the roids and edge case genetics to do so?
Or do you drift through life like a dream where other people do things that might as well be magic because you cant conceive of how they do them? E.g. if you see a train floating in a dream you wouldnt think to ask "how", you just acknowledge that it does by *magic*. Do low IQ people make the same handwave assumption IRL? "Oh, floating train? Magic!" Rather than thinking through it logically to determine if it there's a concealed rail they missed, or an overhead cable, or maglev system relying upon superconductors, or somesuch?
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