If you could have anyone's brain for a day...

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Different levels, or different types?

I would not want to try my cat's brain, yet I would like to know what is in it ... and I already know intelligence is not.

If I chose a different animal's brain, I'd go for a cat. I'm jealous of cats.

I'd say both different levels and types. I really want to know what goes on in other animal's brains, I think that we often underestimate them.

Cats are very intelligent. They manipulate humans all the time, fully consciously.

Albert Einstein (not original I know but he's the only one I can think of at the moment, I like the way he was thinking in images and then translating into numbers)

This list is pretty interesting and surprising in some cases:

The IQ of Famous People http://www.kids-iq-tests.com/famous-people.html

Edited: I've been looking through that list ... holy s**** Marilyn vos Savant IQ 228

Its great comments like this that make me love this forum

As for the question, Leonardo Da Vinci. To me he is the quintessential genius.

Well, I'd like to be in the following person's brains for a brief period of time..

1.Stephen King-I'd love to be able to come up with so many unique ideas to scare people in the written,expressive form.
2.Gandhi--Yes, peaceful resistance against hostile persons can actually work for, Gandhi proved such..
3.Nikola Tesla-- I'd like to know the many ideas he had on improving the electrical system which, he has literally been forgotten about..

1. Van Gogh - There's so much speculation about what his deal was, I'd really like to know.
2. Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton or Stephen Hawking - I'd give almost anything to see how much smarter they really were/are than me..
3. Anyone who's been to the moon - So I could remember it.

i'm not a fan of any of these folks, but how could george bush the senior have scored only 98? that is inconsistent with his WW2 duty as a military officer and fighter pilot. muhammed ali was much brighter than that low 78 score would seem to indicate- he was very quick-witted and routinely out-thought his opponents. andy warhol scored 86? just what kind of intelligence is being tested or evaluated here?

Those guys may well have had savant talents. Well, at least two of them. Savants tend to be super talented in very narrow 'areas' of intelligence, and significantly less functional in other areas. This can drag results from an IQ test down, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't get a genius IQ score if they were only measuring boxing ability (or whatever part(s) of intelligence boxing talent comes under) for example.

At least, this is my understanding.

I would so borrow Temple Grandin's brain for a day!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! ! Though I would have to also use someone else's eyes to get the full effect of being able to think in pictures and manipulate what I see in my head though. The only thing is, I wouldn't want to work with cows as much. I'd maybe want to take it and work with animals that are fluffier like rabbits or guinea-pigs because they're soft and fluffy and I could hold them And also, cattle can sometimes smell bad (as the city of Greely could attest), so I wouldn't want to be around that smell all day.

I don't know if its true or not but it says this on the page:


Whether true or not tho there is at least 2 things (probably a lot more then that) that usual IQ tests don't tell, first I see some people there with a high IQ but who don't seem to have much wisdom (which is another form of intelligence in my opinion), and also when someone is very good in one or more specific areas and bad in others, I would guess that an advanced mathematician would have a very high math-IQ score for example while the total of all the tests won't show that (except maybe for people who check the results and who can see the person's strengths and weaknesses)