IQ=ZEKA
Yazarlara göreyse zekânın tanımı "bilişsel süreçlerle beraber yeni durumlara adapte olabilme becerisi" (Reuchlin, Dictionary of Psychology, 1991), "bireyin anlama ve etrafını saran dünyaya hükmetme becerisi" (Wechsler, WPPSI-R, 1995) ya da "yeni... Sayfa 17
İngilizce'de zekâ karşılığı olarak kullanılan intelligence sözcüğünün Latince kökeni "seçim yapmak" anlamına gelir. Bitkiler, mantarlar ve cıvıkmantarlar gibi beyni olmayan organizmalar çevrelerine esnek tepkiler verir, problem çözer ve farklı eylem seçenekleri... Sayfa 67 - Domingo Yayınları
And George, while his
intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his
ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a
government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would
send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair
advantage of their brains.Sayfa 1
It is a major fear of the period that is represented in both We and R.U.R. —that rather than increasing the capacity of man and making men like gods, the effect of science might instead be to simplify and reduce mankind’s humanity. It seemed that scientific civilization could produce beings of highly developed intelligence, but without any souls—creatures in human form who were no longer people.
Burroughs was the first great SF writer of the Twentieth Century. He did not have H.G. Wells’s acute intelligence, his scientific knowledge, nor his breadth of vision. But he was able to do something new that Wells had not been able to do.
Wells had set forth the outlines of...