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:	post by ArrowHead at 2004-08-02 17:05:55

So who is wiser? A retard (someone with an i.q. of say, 40) who doesn't touch a hot stove when they cook because they touched one before and gained the wisdom not to do it again, or a genius (with an I.Q. of 160) who won't cook on the stove because they heard it can burn you?

That may be a bad example, but you get my point I hope. Intellect is a pretty useless measurement originally gauged to help understand people with learning disabilities. People of lesser intellect are still capapble of learning just as much, as long as they have the desire to do so. They just learn DIFFERENTLY. What sets us apart from other life is ration ability, you are correct there. However, Rationality is just an adaptive tool we used somewhere in our evolution. What truly makes humans unique is not out ability to interpret and learn about the things that directly affect us (this is again just our adaptive way of surviving) but is instead our desire to learn about and understand things which do NOT directly affect us. Humans have a curiosity and desire for progress that is unmatched in any other species.

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