Fevered mysteries
Jan. 6th, 2008 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
indigo_rose99No more fever.
After my 4:10am wake up, I spent the next three hours checking my temperature and taking aspirin. By 7am, I had taken four aspirin and my temperature seemed firmly under 100F. I felt safe enough to go back to bed. I woke at about 1:30pm and felt... It wasn't just that my brain processing speed was a bit slower than usual, it was that I could only process one thing at a time. It was like I would have a good thought and couldn't put it in the queue for implementation. The act-upon queue was extremely short, and all items not next-in-line disappeared.
For example, we decided to take the car in the garage out to eat. T told me to be sure and grab my pad out of the car (blocking) in the driveway. I got my key, went to the car in the driveway, and came back with the pad. T looked at me like I was crazy (in an affectionate way). "You were supposed to move the car." "I was? But you didn't say so!" He gestured generally to the way the car in the driveway was blocking the car we intended to take. "I'm sorry. But you didn't say so." He moved the car, but his attitude made it clear that this is a processing step I would usually have just implemented on my own without his prompting. He was right.
it occurs to me, in a not-very-PC-thought, that this must be how most people go through life.
Before going to bed last night, I checked my temperature carefully (which, for a statistician translates to "repeatedly"). Perfectly ordinary for me. 24 hour flu? Very strange.
After my 4:10am wake up, I spent the next three hours checking my temperature and taking aspirin. By 7am, I had taken four aspirin and my temperature seemed firmly under 100F. I felt safe enough to go back to bed. I woke at about 1:30pm and felt... It wasn't just that my brain processing speed was a bit slower than usual, it was that I could only process one thing at a time. It was like I would have a good thought and couldn't put it in the queue for implementation. The act-upon queue was extremely short, and all items not next-in-line disappeared.
For example, we decided to take the car in the garage out to eat. T told me to be sure and grab my pad out of the car (blocking) in the driveway. I got my key, went to the car in the driveway, and came back with the pad. T looked at me like I was crazy (in an affectionate way). "You were supposed to move the car." "I was? But you didn't say so!" He gestured generally to the way the car in the driveway was blocking the car we intended to take. "I'm sorry. But you didn't say so." He moved the car, but his attitude made it clear that this is a processing step I would usually have just implemented on my own without his prompting. He was right.
it occurs to me, in a not-very-PC-thought, that this must be how most people go through life.
Before going to bed last night, I checked my temperature carefully (which, for a statistician translates to "repeatedly"). Perfectly ordinary for me. 24 hour flu? Very strange.
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Date: 2008-01-06 08:09 pm (UTC)I do think that a big part of "intelligence" is the ability to look two or three moves down the board, anticipate several different outcomes, and take logical steps toward the best likely outcome. We don't talk very much about differences in intelligence, but I hope that whatever "PC" is it will not lead us all to think that there are no differences among people. If "PC" means that it is not right to make value judgements about people based upon their intelligence--a smart person isn't more worthy or deserving or morally superior or what have you--then I agree. But some people are, in fact, smarter than others.