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Re: Brain size, IQ
Len Piotrowski (lpiotrow@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
Tue, 3 Sep 1996 15:01:13 GMT
In article <322A2F50.4941@megafauna.com> Stephen Barnard <steve@megafauna.com> writes:
>[snip]
>Here are a couple of anecdotal "facts" that have some bearing on this
>question. Make of them what you like.
>* Anais Nin (not sure of spelling), an accomplished artist, had a very,
>very small brain.
>* There are well-documented cases of people whose cortex was very
>compromised (like maybe 95% destroyed) who appeared to be more-or-less
>normal.
There is an overwhelming mass of information about "compromised" brain
tissue due to trauma that indicate a capacity of the modern human brain to
re-organize itself and recover function and behavior seemingly permanently
altered, destroyed, or damaged. Anomalies in learning research like the
relationship between type of deprivation and reinforcement and
"superstitious" behavior, suggest a rethinking of the notion of an inbred,
unalterable capacity for brain function and behavior incapable of
self-modification.
Cheers,
--Lenny__
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