Brain is like a governmental building with different departments and offices, each with a different function, and all wired up and interconnected.
Intelligence applies to what we do consciously, and it involves several offices in the brain at the same time. Someone may be born better equipped for music, another for mathematics, etc. Seldom nature can create identicals.
This makes
people different and unequal in a given mental ability.
Yet, brain is like a library, and
its ability depends on how much knowledge is put in it. That is, a small
but full library can beat a large but empty one!
Members of the same race, clan, or family are not equal in height, physical abilities, drives, emotions, etc. There is no evidence to believe that they are equal in intelligence.
Intelligence is not a single ability. There are different intelligences such as artistic, linguistic, scientific, etc. Some animals are more intelligent than us in realizing an impending earth quake, etc.
A person may have an average intelligence in one field, higher or lower in another. Also, one may have an overall higher or lower intelligence than others. Simply, people are not equals, they have equal rights to exercise whatever abilities they have.
DATED: 9 October 2000
NOTE: The article above is from "Thus Speaks Zarathustra", a 4-volume book (presently not available) by Behrooz Bassim, MD. This book is a 21st century sequel to Nietzsche's 19th century masterpiece. Other pages from it on the internet are:
Abortion
Artificial
Color & Flavor
Capitalism
Civility
Darwin
Was Right So Was LaMarck
Democracy
or Isocracy
Etymology
of sacred, etc
God,
Who?
Guns
in USA
Homosexuality
Honesty
Me
Intelligence
Monetary,
A Unique Unit, A unique
Particle
Physics, Grand Spectrum
Plight
of the Mice
Politician,
The American
Race
& Class
Sermon
Sham
Justice
Soul
Is Mind
Unidirectional
Competition
Universal
Army
Universal
Language
Zarathustra
CONTACT: bassim@usadatanet.net