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The minds of enhanced people
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As someone who has suffered pretty badly with mental health problems I've gone through occasional spurts of reading through psychology and epidemiology papers on the topic. At the moment it seems that the jury is still out on whether or not there is a relationship between IQ and incidence of mental health disorders. Even amongst the papers that report a correlation some show positive and some negative.

It seems like a typically difficult problem to study (or even define) based on the huge amount of variables and difficulty in gathering data. There may be some reporting bias going on in that people are more likely to share stories of "brilliant" people suffering from mental health problems because it fits the cultural narrative. There's also the issue of definitions; IQ isn't the be-all and end-all of intelligence and "mental health" is a class of diseases that can manifest for very different reasons and with very different symptoms. Some studies suggest a link between schizophrenia and creativity, for example, possibly due to an overactive pattern recognition response. Others have found that certain depressive moods lead people to more intelligent work and not-vice-versa.

And of course there's the nature vs nurture problem. There's a tonne of social, cultural and economic factors that can come into play here. Like kids who do better in school being told more frequently by adults "you're really bright, you're going to do great in life" which they then deeply internalised and suffer a constant unconscious anxiety when faced with failure. Speaking of kids whilst it's true their brains aren't fully developed there is a lot of study into the development of altruism and empathy in child psychology. Again the jury is still out but there's some fascinating work showing that young kids innately revert to basic game theory tactics like iterative tit-for-tat, e.g. "He stole our toy yesterday, he can't play with us today" Teenagers are a bit different due to biological and cultural factors again.

Putting that together and focusing on the cultural; we talk a lot about the physical technology of OA but not always the social science. I can't even begin to imagine how good an understanding there could be in the setting for the nature/nurture - psychology relationship. Beyond invasive measures of brain rewrites and stuff like that angelnets could be programmed to ensure that children develop in a way that gives them the best chance of being stable, content, well-adjusted adults. That could lead to all sorts of odd situations, like the angelnet occasionally allowing things to happen that it wouldn't for esoteric reasons of psychological manipulation. Nudging the kids all along.
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The minds of enhanced people - by QwertyYerty - 11-11-2016, 01:43 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by QwertyYerty - 11-11-2016, 01:50 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by QwertyYerty - 11-11-2016, 01:59 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Drashner1 - 11-11-2016, 02:39 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Rynn - 11-11-2016, 05:26 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by stevebowers - 11-11-2016, 09:17 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Bear - 11-12-2016, 06:35 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Drashner1 - 11-13-2016, 01:40 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by selden - 11-12-2016, 10:57 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Drashner1 - 11-13-2016, 01:46 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Rynn - 11-13-2016, 04:04 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Drashner1 - 11-13-2016, 08:59 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Rynn - 11-13-2016, 05:56 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Rynn - 11-13-2016, 08:50 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Rynn - 11-13-2016, 09:12 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Drashner1 - 11-14-2016, 01:39 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Avengium - 11-14-2016, 09:48 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Rynn - 11-14-2016, 09:52 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by QwertyYerty - 11-15-2016, 12:39 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by QwertyYerty - 11-15-2016, 01:01 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Drashner1 - 11-15-2016, 01:18 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Rynn - 11-16-2016, 06:14 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Rynn - 11-15-2016, 10:34 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by selden - 11-16-2016, 08:47 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Drashner1 - 11-16-2016, 01:00 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by stevebowers - 11-16-2016, 09:10 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Jordanes - 09-21-2019, 08:53 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Drashner1 - 09-23-2019, 11:03 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Bear - 11-17-2016, 06:18 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Bear - 11-17-2016, 06:22 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Drashner1 - 11-17-2016, 01:08 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Bear - 11-17-2016, 01:41 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Rynn - 11-17-2016, 07:33 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by stevebowers - 09-24-2019, 08:44 PM

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