INCREASING INTELLIGENCE IN OBJECTIVE THINKING EASILY AND EFFICIENTLY WITHOUT SCHOOLING: Imagine a nature landscape in the background as you think.
A large part of efficient objective thinking is thinking in pictures. One imagines the thing to think about as a picture in one's mind.
In this nature picture method one compares the structures in the thoughr thing to the structures of a nature landscape with similar looking features. The ability of humans to observe nature landscapes is great: the amount of seen information in a nature landscape is enermous compared to the usual complexity of thoughts, so that via this method there is almost no limit to the complexity of thoughts that you can think. Just remember to form a holistic view of the whole, so that you are sure to get the main points right! Imagine as closely as you can what the things really are like - not in your imagination only but in the reality.
Scientifical thinking you get with a slowly gliding movement of the eyes along the regularities of the surface. That is like the slow description of scientifical detail in a thing to think about in one's mind while one forms a holistic picture of the whole thing. Technical thinking also uses gliding eyes with an even smaller focus and slower movement. Form the holistic view your self, so you get really good thinking.
I would like to hear people's experiences of trying to use this method.
Also the arts increase intelligence substantially: atmospheres are complex landscapes with structure and with the signifigance of each thing taken into account from the point of view of human life. So atmospheres are a very natural and effective form of good holistic thinking.
The increase in emotional intelligence that arts give helps to get the roles of things right in life and in the world at large: art teaches philosophy.
One could think that since loving the nature and the arts gives an increased capacity, that would serve as nature's own way of putting the healthy ones with right values into power in the world - or at least of giving the right values some more influence in the world, like is dearly needed from the points of view of health, happiness and safety. True rationality means true emotionality too.
Hannele Tervola, Finland, European Union
INCREASING INTELLIGENCE
DEVELOPING INTELLIGENCE
I remember my experience: like this I have experienced. (So one forms a good rich picture of how things are.) And I watch the scene with my eyes in order to get an idea of the situation, even exact details but firstly and foremostly a holistic view of how things are. (So one gets the picture to an objective form.)
How to be objective and with feelings at the same time:
One can be objective and instead of thinking by words, think by referring to one's own practical experience of the world. Like: this is a plant and this and this and that isn't, that's just a part of a plant. Likewise can one refer to feelings: such and such feelings like this and like that... Our feelings are a part of our natural way to observe the world, so if wee just find the right way to be with them , they do not obstruct objectivity at all.
HOW NATURAL SENSORY STIMULUS SUPPORTS THINKING
Use a way of looking, which covers the whole nature landscape with the focus of the eyes gliding over the surface following its regularities. The nature landscape corresponds to a holistic view and the gliding of the focus to logical deduction. Technical thinking corresponds very slow movement of a very small focus, scientifical a little bit faster movement with a wider focus. Just picture the thing in question in your mind as one single picture, holistic view, with the accuracy that you know it for sure. (There might be mist somewhere obstructing your sense of sight, or you might need to use your imagination to get the whole landscape to one picture since it isn't all in sight at the same time - just such instinctual landscape is what I refer to: it is very objective and practical: the way that you know your environment without looking, such is a holistic view of the environment.)
ATMOSPHERES GIVE A HUNDREDFOLD ABILITY IN TECHNICAL SKILL
This way one can increase one's effectiveness in technical things to maybe a hundred fold or even more: it is a landscape consisting of technical details plus an understanding instead of a single not so well understood detail!
For most people it is tough to be technical all the time: it is too unnatural and even destructive in its one-eyedness. So one should use some other way to survive through technical things. A landscape like holistic view of the situation is such. One can look at its details just the way that one looks at things when doing handicrafts.
One can also translate technical kind of things to the language of atmospheres. An atmosphere gives a holistic view with structure. A slight alteration of that structure, even if it is technical, gives a slight difference in the atmosphere. So if one is sensitive to atmospheres, like most women are, one can learn to be very efficient in technical kind of thinking. That way natural is superior to artificial. The good side of atmospheres is that they describe not only the structure but also its meaningfulness to human life. Whatever is important, is strongly emphasised in the atmosphere and easy to notice.
WOMEN ARE MORE INTELLIGENT THAN MEN
Men's way, described by a man is the scientifical method: to take into account only certain things: those which are connected to the thing in question.
Women too use something like the scientifical method. In women's opinion the point of view of men is too elementary, too restricted, too much like a beginner's view. That's why women take into account many more things, for example a ten to hundredfold amount of things. So in a sense women do not stick to the subject in the eyes of men since men's thinking ability isn't enough to understand the whole thing but only a certain simple line of thought about the subject. On the other hand, women stick to the subject better than men, understand more deeply what the things are about, make the most essential remarks from the points of view of practise and theory from the point of view of proper thinking and think clearly more objectively than men do. The strengths of women are typically different from the strengths of men, so even skilled men can make typical men's mistakes and errors, that's why the opinions of skilled men and stupid women agree only a part of the time.
This is explained partly by women using the atmospheres as a way to conceive things while men use almost no atmospheres at all in their deductions.
Would it help if one would add some arts education to the military service: a painting class or the like to increase men's understanding of atmospheres and consequently of warfare and life?
My point of view is that the main difference between women and men is cultural, stemming from the effect of the military service on men and the effect of children upbearing on women. Children need to grow up to healthy adults, that is good for the country and that's why women's values reflect many things which are important to all humans, important to fully functioning.
TECHNICAL PRACTISE
Count the number of technical kind of details (straight lines, pieces of circles, changes in curvature, angles,...) in a nature landscape: it is enormous, almost astronomical! Still one can with practise conceive correctly a whole nature landscape at one long glance with its structures and substructures. Such an ability can give practise for mathematical kind of thinking, and make some of its parts manyfold in pace. Just imagine the thoughts as pictures in your mind and look at them like our naturally look at nature. So if you are an engineer or otherwise needing technical kind of information in your work or in your life, value nature photographs on walls, trees, plants for decoration, pets and recreation in nature. An emotional attachment to these would be good to have too since it makes us build on the right things.
THE BUDDHIST NON-GRASPING ATTITUDE GIVES A BETTER CAPACITY
The Buddhist nongrasping attitude: mark in your picture of the world, in your understanding, living your life more important than your preconceptions about how to live your life best. So with every failure, you do not grasp unwisely the failure but instead what you can get from the situation by living. And with every success you do not get fixed to some theory perspective far from practise in which you do well, but live your life instead with a full heart.
AIM AT SUCCESS
The military service has a negative effect on the intelligence of men. One reason for that is that many men think that their aim in war is to cause destruction. So a part of their identity is of the style of destruction, which in anything else is equal to failure. So they aim at failure when they search for their at least somewhat army like style in order to look manly.
One should rethink the idea in the military service. The idea is to defend good, to aim at good life in good living conditions for all fairly. That rhymes with success in other areas of life and should so make men more intelligent than they have this far usually been.
THE GENERATION GAP
Peace time increases intelligence because the given answers rhyme with success.
The present generation is theoretically more intelligent than the previous, but the bosses tend to be from the previous generation, so all get intelligently too little demanding work, too stupidly guided and too narrow and so they get tired and do not feel as well as the previous generation which still cannot understand the possibility for doing more demanding work. Consequently there is too little freedom for the younger generation.
HANDLING A LARGE WHOLE LIKE THE WHOLE WORLD
Build a single picture in your mind, fit everything to that single picture in its right place and right proportions, make the picture like one that one can experience with one's eyes, ears, body and feelings so you get into use your normal capacity to live in the world. That's why it is good to live fully, senses open, mind and heart together: that's what gives you a bigger capacity and a more rewarding life.
The body and mind interconnect
According to the biological picture of humans and the theory of evolution we have feelings and states of mind in order to help us survive better. Sometimes we are ready to run, sometimes we are all concentrated into gardening work, sometimes remembering or communicating... What we do is reflected in our body in ways that, according to the theory of evolution, should make most sense for all the goals that we have each moment in practise. So if we do something to our body, for example tense it in order to bear cold better or to look aggressive like a manly soldier, a part of our whole being gets concentrated into that effort, lessening our possibilities to concentrate to other things as fully as we without that extra goal of tense body could. According to my own experience this connection between mind and the body is strong elso this way: from the state of the body to the state of the mind: you make your capacity much smaller, especially your adabtability which is needed in many kinds of tasks like emotional and social intelligence, philosophical thinking and using the memory. Please try this yourself: tense all your expression & other muscles rigidly and try to adobt a new attitude while keeping the tension. Then relax completely, also in what comes to your facial expressions etc., to their variability, and try the attitude change or a change in your point of view again: it is much easier thsi time! I think that there is some lesson to be learned from this that could be remembered when bringing up children... We could be mush more intelligent than what we are, really.
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