They may be brighter than you think. Chicks several days old can "add" and "subtract." And mothers do indeed feel empathy for their young ones.
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Because Sometimes Even When Everything's Alright, it Still Feels Alwrong
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About Me
- Aditya
- Seattle, WA
- I'm a wannabe monk / neuroscientist, practicing software engineer, and real clown. I also did a stint as a part-time research assistant in a university psychology lab, investigating emotion regulation.
Mostly I'm curious about how we find ourselves in the condition we do, and what -- if anything -- can be done about it.
No doubt that's a very common question. I hope to attack it from the perspectives of contemplative science, neuroscience, and whatever else I get my grimy paws on.
Is the correlation between intelligence and (possible) suffering obvious?
ReplyDeleteIt's not so clear. Both higher thinking and emotion happen in our cerebral cortex, and so one might expect a rough correlation between intelligence and capacity for suffering.
ReplyDeleteBut it's a hard question.
(Incidentally, this is also why I don't like the argument that killing plants is just as bad. People argue that we don't know whether or not plants have emotions, but the same can be said of anything sufficiently different from humans.)