Intelligence, Personality and Genius

People say that the offspring of high IQ individuals will regress to the mean (average) of their 'population' - and they calculate this as if it were a mathematical law... But intelligence is a...

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2017/12/regression-to-mean-and-iq.html

From the primary forces of Order and Chaos there can be no real creativity - not from either individually (Order leading to crystalline stasis; Chaos to a Brownian motion of homogeneous disorder)...

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2017/10/creativity-as-polarity-of-order-and.html

It was just over 5 years ago on this blog that Michael A Woodley and I published the discovery of a rapid and severe slowing of simple reaction times over the past century-plus; and the interpret...

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2017/03/5-years-since-woodley-and-i-announced.html

A microcosm of what went wrong with the industrial revolution: Calhoun’s Mouse Utopia experiment Bruce G Charlton Note: for convenience in referencing - this essay is cross-posted in a ded...

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2016/12/human-mouse-utopia-due-to-mutation.html

The Genius Famine is a book written from this blog. It is now freely available online at: http://geniusfamine.blogspot.co.uk/

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-genius-famine-by-ed-dutton-and.html

http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/your-personal-choice-of-five-living.html

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2016/05/your-choice-of-five-living-geniuses.html

  EVOLUTION OF EMPATHIZING AND SYSTEMIZING:  EMPATHIZING AS AN ASPECT OF SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE, SYSTEMIZING AS AN EVOLUTIONARILY LATER CONSEQUENCE OF ECONOMIC SPECIALIZATION Bruce G Charlto...

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2016/04/evolution-of-empathizing-and.html

Charlton, BG. Reconceptualizing the metaphysical basis of biology: a new definition based on deistic teleology and an hierarchy of organizing entities(2016) The Winnower. DOI: 10.15200/winn.1458...

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2016/03/reconceptualizing-metaphysical-basis-of.html

Teleology (purpose) in biology is based on, requires, that reality be coherent, cooperative and complementary. This, in turn, requires that there is a single and unifying governing entity. In s...

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-reality-of-ultimate-teleology-is.html

On reflection, I think that teleology must be of the nature of following a blueprint plus instructions - in other words, teleology entails achieving what is already in existence conceptually. ...

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2016/03/on-structure-and-mechanism-of-teleology.html

Since everything is alive (to some, perhaps minimal, degree) - also conscious and cognitive; then everything has imagination and purpose works through imagination. Imagination is the mechanism ...

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2016/03/imagination-as-organ-of-teleology-and.html

Pre-publication version posted online at The Winnower - where you can register to review it, or comment, before the final version is revised and archived: https://thewinnower.com/papers/3497-...

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-teleological-metaphysics-for-biology.html

http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/biology-without-teleology-excludes.html

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2016/02/biology-must-have-teleology-goal.html

  25 February - Pre-print version now online at The Winnower - see: http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/a-teleological-metaphysics-for-biology.html

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-new-metaphysics-for-biology-draft-of.html

The title says it all. From my experience of some three decades, I am able to state with confidence and without the slightest exaggeration that very, very few researchers in the biosciences (e...

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2016/02/ten-minutes-of-honest-focused-thought.html

Edward Dutton & Bruce G Charlton. The Genius Famine: Why we need geniuses, Why they're dying out, Why we must rescue them. University of Buckingham Press: Buckingham, England. 2016 http://genius...

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2016/01/my-new-book-genius-famine-is-now.html

Tranquillizing drugs are psychiatry's aspirin. They leave patients calm and quiet so they do not feel like complaining. While taking tranquillizers, the thought processes become simpler, new t...

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2016/01/tranquillizing-drugs-are-deceptively.html

I have just published a small report in an online scientific journal called The Winnower https://thewinnower.com/papers/3282-three-potential-emotional-causes-of-depressive-symptoms-negative-emo...

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-winnower-inspiring-model-for.html

The word metaphysics typically induces boredom or incomprehension, and most definitions seem unhelpful to most people - so what is it? Metaphysics can be thought of as the default hypothesis. ...

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2016/01/metaphysics-default-hypotheses-what.html

The answer is that he imagined it - obviously! He could not perceive it, therefore he must have imagined it - or, if you like, inferred it. Darwin did know that selection could adapt organism...

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2016/01/how-did-darwin-know-that-evolution-by.html

http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/why-are-so-many-clever-and-creative.html

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-intellectual-elite-are-sheeple-just.html

The situation where group selection is a necessary explanation, is in order to solve the primary problem of life - which is the sustaining of life in the face of the tendency to mutational meltd...

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2015/12/why-is-group-selection-necessary-to.html

An important consequence of reconceptualising group selection in terms of complex systems theory is that group selection no longer requires competition between groups. this was a serious constr...

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2015/12/group-selection-does-not-require.html

Group selection can roughly be defined as a form of natural selection by which the fitness (probable reproductive success) of the group is maintained or enhanced, even at the cost of reduced fit...

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2015/12/reconceptualizing-group-selection-in.html

Group selection can roughly be defined as a form of natural selection by which the fitness (probable reproductive success) of the group is maintained or enhanced, even at the cost of reduced fit...

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2015/12/what-makes-human-group-capable-of-group.html