Do mind games actually help your brain perform better?
August 17, 2009 – 5:40 pmI’d like to know if playing games such as chess or solving sudoku puzzles, or any other activity of such sort for that matter, increases the brain’s skills, and helps it perform better in future tasks? Furthermore, does it help to preserve the brain’s basic functions and prevent dementia? Please cite your sources; the last thing I need is an ignorant man’s rationalization. Thank you.
Well, you are going to get an ignorant mans rationalization, like it or not! I am 77 and have a keen mind because I have always exercised it. Actually science knows very little about the human mind so this and similar statements are about as good evidence as you’ll get. IQ is a delusion of the educated to bolster their egos. See the book "The mismeasure of man" by the late Stephen Jay Gould for the truth about IQ.
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Well, you are going to get an ignorant mans rationalization, like it or not! I am 77 and have a keen mind because I have always exercised it. Actually science knows very little about the human mind so this and similar statements are about as good evidence as you’ll get. IQ is a delusion of the educated to bolster their egos. See the book "The mismeasure of man" by the late Stephen Jay Gould for the truth about IQ.
References :
Stephen Jay Gould; "The mismeasure of man.": W. W. Norton and Co., New York N.Y., 1996
By Mad Mac on Aug 17, 2009