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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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Now, how would you feel if you didn't have breakfast this morning?

That video and question is a pretty good example if you want to see what below average IQ is like. They simply do not have the ability to understand or even try to. They are not aware that it is possible to think about an abstract question or idea. What is, is and that is it.

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I was about to cite this, but couldn’t remember where I saw it. Wasn’t this a study they did on inmates with particularly low IQ’s?

If I remember correctly, they asked them “how would you feel if you didn’t eat breakfast this morning?” and the person would respond “what you talkin bout dawg I did eat breakfast this moanin and sheeeeit”.

And then they’d be like “Yes Tyrone I realize that you ate breakfast but how would you feel if you didn’t eat breakfast?”

And then Tyrone would get pissed and accuse them of “fuckin wit me dawg.”

Tyrone couldn’t even wrap his head around a hypothetical what-if scenario.

If that’s true, that is some fascinating shit.

It’s also scary AF because these people vote and are allowed to own guns and procreate..that is, unless and until they have those rights stripped via the legal system..but even then, they just carry on as if nothing changed.

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The example I gave was in a courtroom with a judge asking a black youth the question. It's painful to watch if you have a brain. I'll see if I can find the clip and will update later.

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Now, how would you feel if you didn't have breakfast this morning?

But I did have breakfast.