#crystallized intelligence

can't really argue with them on-site because i'm too petty + can't really get my thoughts in an unemotional way but arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh this question is so iffy to me. like...yes...i know i'm a convergent prism. it's not because i don't have the cognitive capacity to make up new thoughts on the fly, but because i literally do not have much crystallized intelligence and any crystallized intelligence that i do have seems to phenomenlogically "erode", thus forcing me to emulate depth with whatever scraps of information are crawling to me at the moment. (OP's flavor of "originality" is translating information from one field onto another field to gain new insight, IIRC.) there's also the fact that i don't have much life experience at all to construct entirely new insight either? lots of my reblogs/retweets are written confirmations of my suspicions/inklings/hunches, with the exception that it's written by someone else

The movie Still Alice is about a women who went from having an amazing life to fighting each day to be the person she had always been. Alice Howland was happily married, had three children, and was a linguistics professor. Everything changed when she was diagnosed with Early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease. The movie displays Alice’s life and the challenges that she faced with her progressive decline in memory and cognitive functioning.  In the movie, Alice loses her ability to tie her shoes, speak, and recall the names of her own children. With aging, changes in cognitive functioning occur which can result in difficulty with attention, learning, recognition, recall, and memory.   With Alice’s Early-onset Alzheimer's, she experiences severe changes in her cognitive abilities at a much younger age than would be expected. As people age, fluid intelligence begins to fade while crystallized intelligence enhances. Fluid intelligence is our ability to solve problems quickly. We begin to lose this. Crystallized intelligence is our ability to use our skills, knowledge, and experiences without having to use our memory. Due to Alice’s illness, she is losing her crystallized intelligence and her fluid intelligence.