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Journal Article
Superintelligence and Mental Anxiety from Mary Shelley to Ted Chiang
2018
Overview
The study, as paraphrased by Christian Jarrett for the British Psychological Society, explained these 'two seemingly contradictory correlations' by concluding that 'more verbally intelligent individuals are able to consider past and future events in greater detail, leading to more intense rumination and worry' (Jarrett 2014). Many of the ideas surrounding the concept are similar, but due to the definition of it as a 'future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed' (Kurtzweil 2006: 7), it operates as a warning of future superintelligences, rather than an exploration of the anxieties surrounding intelligence and intellect, which is what this article will explore. Frankenstein's Creature, and his mental development in both an intellectual and emotional sense, is markedly alienated by his augmented intelligence - a trend that develops in subsequent sf, particularly in the form of Isaac Asimov's robots, and Charlie in Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon (1966). [...]the emotional effectiveness of Keyes's writing style tragically reflects this, as Charlie's 'progris riport's' transition from very observational statements about his life in the bakery to lexically dense reflections on the nature of existence, before regressing back to simpler language and looser grammar as Charlie's mental capacity deteriorates.
