07.+What+is+Intelligence+(February+2006) - Get a Free Blog

What is Intelligence? 107
It would be better for many people to work part-time, and have more rest
but less money, than to push our minds and bodies to their limits and
suffer the many bad consequences of overstress.
As we have pointed out, the powers that be don’t currently seem to much
care about how much we damage and exhaust ourselves, so we are going
to have to complain more about this issue, and force them to re-order
society so that we can all have an easier life, but without that leading us
into poverty.
One measure we can all take is to become less materialistic and reduce
our luxuries, trying to focus our energies and finances on what we really
need rather than the extravagances and dreams which fire our
imaginations but also drain the energies of our bodies and minds due to
what we have to endure to get the money to afford them.
This also brings us to the issue of behaviour in general.
And as we have explained in a previous chapter, intelligent and very
emotional behaviour do not march well together.
We are not talking morality here, we are talking brain chemistry or
physiology.
We know the brain is an organ made of physical tissue, and evidently it
tires out in various ways and needs repair just like all our other physical
tissues, such as our skin, which is repeatedly replaced completely over
time.
And the questions we would have general readers, doctors and
psychologists ask themselves and therefore research are: what do
powerful emotional states like anger, fear, passion and so on do to our
brains, our nerves?
And equally what does a powerful orgasm do to our brains, our nerves?
It can certainly get our heart up to a fearsome rate, causing some people
to go into cardiac arrest under the strain for example.
Why is it that it seems we have to get into a condition of “near death”
before we can get our bodies to produce the fluid which will create the
next generation?