The Limitation of Human Intelligence

Geneticists are now saying that man must take the course of his evolution into his own hands. But he must interfere with his own intelligence and through genetic alterations, breed the kind of people who will be viable for human society. Now this I submit is a ghastly error because human intelligence has a very serious limitation. That limitation is that it is a scanning system of conscious attention which is linear. It examines the world in lines rather as you would pass the beam of a flashlight across a room or a spotlight. And so long as we are stuck with that form of wisdom, we cannot deal with more than a few variables at once. A variable is any one linear process. Let's