Totally agree. At first, they’d think you’re a genius, but you’d only be a genius as an 8 yo. Unless you kept progressing and getting smarter, eventually your age would catch up to your intelligence and you’d just be… well you.
Also, being 8 with the memories and experience of an adult would probably keep us from doing all the dumbass shit we did as kids. Some of it could’ve killed is, but I’m betting most of it was pretty rad at the time.
But here’s the fun thing, your brain is incredibly flexible when you are that age. So your ability to learn and retain at the age of 8 would be significantly easier than it is as an adult. So yes if you put your mind to it, you could potentially be significantly smarter than you are as an adult.
Long story short this could easily 2x your education giving you genius level intelligence you’d get to retain even when you become an adult again.
This assumes not forgetting anything due to the age and body chemistry changes.
I could very well imagine the chemistry overriding your adult brain for cravings etc.
Interesting point! I’ve often wondered how much chemistry/our endocrine system effects our personality. Especially by the time we hit puberty again, I assume we’d be acting like a horny teenager again regardless of our past lives.
That said it’s worth mentioning that the title of the post directly states that we would have our current mind intact. So for the purposes of this thought experiment I’m going to assume all of our memories and thoughts would be completely intact, only our body chemistry will likely shift some of our drives and impulses.
Fair point, but this assumes I’m relatively intelligent as a middle-aged adult. For the likelihood of that, I’ll refer you to George Carlin’s timeless message about the average person!
At first, they’d think you’re a genius, but you’d only be a genius as an 8 yo. Unless you kept progressing and getting smarter, eventually your age would catch up to your intelligence and you’d just be… well you.
That’s literally what happened to me in high school.
Totally agree. At first, they’d think you’re a genius, but you’d only be a genius as an 8 yo. Unless you kept progressing and getting smarter, eventually your age would catch up to your intelligence and you’d just be… well you.
Also, being 8 with the memories and experience of an adult would probably keep us from doing all the dumbass shit we did as kids. Some of it could’ve killed is, but I’m betting most of it was pretty rad at the time.
But here’s the fun thing, your brain is incredibly flexible when you are that age. So your ability to learn and retain at the age of 8 would be significantly easier than it is as an adult. So yes if you put your mind to it, you could potentially be significantly smarter than you are as an adult.
Long story short this could easily 2x your education giving you genius level intelligence you’d get to retain even when you become an adult again.
This assumes not forgetting anything due to the age and body chemistry changes.
I could very well imagine the chemistry overriding your adult brain for cravings etc.
Interesting point! I’ve often wondered how much chemistry/our endocrine system effects our personality. Especially by the time we hit puberty again, I assume we’d be acting like a horny teenager again regardless of our past lives.
That said it’s worth mentioning that the title of the post directly states that we would have our current mind intact. So for the purposes of this thought experiment I’m going to assume all of our memories and thoughts would be completely intact, only our body chemistry will likely shift some of our drives and impulses.
Fair point, but this assumes I’m relatively intelligent as a middle-aged adult. For the likelihood of that, I’ll refer you to George Carlin’s timeless message about the average person!
That’s literally what happened to me in high school.