But at a certain point on Thursday my experience shifted from feeling caught up within the poetic vagaries of a live work to constructing, from a remove, intellectual hypotheses about it.
Yes we can produce sophisticated computer models, we can entertain intellectual debate, research, hypothesis and peer review, but all of this must be seen against a whole raft of factors which we know can and will cloud our best guesses at what is going on.
According to the reserve hypothesis, intellectual enrichment does not lead to gains in cognition per se; rather, higher enrichment protects patients from cognitive decline due to disease.
In 1992 psychologist John A. Lucy published two books on the topic, one analyzing the intellectual genealogy of the hypothesis, arguing that previous studies had failed to appreciate the subtleties of Whorf's thinking; they had been unable to formulate a research agenda that would actually test Whorf's claims.
These findings support the hypothesis that intellectual disability genes do not generally represent adaptively-evolving 'intelligence genes', but instead represent genes with important effects on cognitive development that are subject primarily to rare, maladaptive loss-of-function mutations that are presumably selected against (Kitano et al. 2003; Tarpey et al. 2009).
Scientists invest their intellectual reputation in particular hypotheses and become emotionally attached to a specific way of thinking (Goldstein and Goldstein 1984; Gratzer 2000; Thagard 2002, 2004; Rothchild 2006).
Hypotheses about Intellectual Property, Reimbursement, Regulation and Clinical Trials found on the left side of canvas are as, or more important than those on the right side of the canvas.
The cognitive reserve hypothesis posits that intellectual enrichment is associated with cerebral efficiency (Stern et al., 2002, 2005).
As for the Inquisition's much-vaunted role as Big Brother and its responsibility for intellectual decline, Kamen rejects this hypothesis out of hand, arguing that it was ineffective as a censor and that it failed even to prevent the importation of items listed on its own Index of Prohibited Books.
We have conducted the first comprehensive tests for positive selection on genes known to underlie human intellectual disability, to evaluate the hypothesis that some of these genes may also have been involved in the adaptive evolution of human cognition.
