Doug Hofstadter wonders, well, maybe our intelligence just isn't great enough to understand our intelligence, and if we were smarter, well, then our brains would be that much more complicated, and we'd never catch up to it.

Finally, we know that how intelligent we are and how long we shall live are caused by both environmental and genetic influences.

We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom.

Moreover, the assertion that our intelligence is puny in comparison with God s presupposes just the point that is under debate that there is a god who is all knowing, all powerful, and all good.

In an interview in the London Sunday Times , he was quoted as saying that he was gloomy about Africa s prospects, because All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours whereas all the testing says not really.

Finally, we know that how intelligent we are and how long we shall live are caused by both environmental and genetic influences. There are experimental designs, using twins, that can find out the extent to which intelligence and mortality are linked because they share environmental and genetic influences.