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Realist's avatar

Emil, thank you for reviewing the history of intelligence studies. Very interesting to see the evolution of thought over the decades.

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Keith's avatar

Really interesting. I learned a lot from this - which was not hard since I knew so little before reading it.

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Steve Sailer's avatar

A former grad student of Leon Kamin told me that Kamin couldn't really believe that anybody could see pictures in their mind's eye. Kamin couldn't, so he didn't believe anybody else did. On the other hand, he said, Kamin had extraordinary kabbalistic savant capabilities at mentally working with letters and numbers.

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Steve Sailer's avatar

My favorite bit from J.S. Mills' autobiography is when he falls into a massive depression at about age 18 and then after a year or two he finds something that cheers him up: music.

But then he decides that Beethoven and Schubert must have invented all possible new melodies, so he gets depressed again for years.

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Godfree Roberts's avatar

Very helpful. Many thanks.

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