Self Improvement Through Technology

I came acrosss an article title “10 Weaknesses Of Human Intelligence” by Steve Pavlina. Dont get me wrong, Steve has written a lot of good articles, but I dont agree with him on this article.

In the article, the 10 weaknesses are:

1) Faulty hardrive
2) Low RAM
3) Slow CPU
4) Infinite loop
5) Lack of error correction
6) Limited sensory input
7) Poor networking capabilities
8 ) High maintenance cost
9) Legacy codes
10) Unreliable hardware

First let us put the list items into several categories:

a) Hardware - (1)hard drive, (2)RAM, (3)CPU, (6)sensory input, (10) hardware
b) Software - (4) Infinite loop, (5) error correction, (7) networking, (9) legacy codes

To me the list look like an inflated list.
The statement “legacy codes” actually can be more generic “bad codes” - even new codes can be bad. Just look at several releases of MS Windows.

When put as “bad codes” then it encompass (4),(5),(7) - all items in the software category. Then we can do the same thing to “unreliable hardware” which should be “bad/malfunction hardware”. Then it will encompass all items under the hardware category. In the end from the 10 items, it boils down to only 2 - bad hardware and bad software.

So do human being designed by God, has a bad hardware - means the brain itself is bad
by design? Off course there are defective hardwares, but by design normal human being
I would say actually a hardware that is too advance to the user…which causes a lot of the mentioned problems. It is like we are running a supercomputer using DOS operating system in command line mode. While in fact, if we found the correct OS and softwares, the supercomputer can do wonders - things that we have never imagined before.

Do you want to see how advance is the hardware that we have?
Below are links to the story about “Kim Peek” , the real life Rain Man.
With the correct software and environment this what our brain can do.
Maybe in Kim Peek example, at cost of “high power consumption” (lack of social skill).

Kim Peek 1/5,
Kim Peek 2/5 , Kim Peek 3/5 , Kim Peek 4/5 , Kim Peek 5/5

In Kim Peek’s brain there is a “short circuit” - just watch video 4/5.

Now how about the “bad software”?
When a baby is born, he/she is like a blank sheet of paper.
Or in our case just like a PC with a unformatted hard drive.
Has just enough software (some where in the limbic area) to boot up
(make sure core functions - heart beat, breathing, etc.).

So the software that we have is developed over time.
The programmers are - the people around us until some time.
Then we start to program it ourselves. Bad programmer, produce bad codes.
Bad program can cause infinite loop, CPU seems to be slow, memory hog which
make look like the RAM is low, and off course bad device driver can make
your hard drive become faulty. Today we know that there are a lot of
researches, experiments, workable solutions that are focusing on fixing
the software - some even called “programming”…NLP.

As a conclusion to me the article should have been title “10 weaknesses of
human development”.