Conversation with Claus Volko, M.D. on High-I.Q. Societies: Member, World Genius Directory (6)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2022/07/22
Abstract
Claus Volko is an Austrian computer and medical scientist who has conducted research on the treatment of cancer and severe mental disorders by conversion of stress hormones into immunity hormones. This research gave birth to a new scientific paradigm which he called “symbiont conversion theory”: methods to convert cells exhibiting parasitic behaviour to cells that act as symbionts. In 2013 Volko, obtained an IQ score of 172 on the Equally Normed Numerical Derivation Test. He is also the founder and president of Prudentia High IQ Society, a society for people with an IQ of 140 or higher, preferably academics. He discusses: high IQ societies; Mensa in Austria; current size of Prudentia; journal publications; the Facebook group; membership size and demographics; Facebook; “only positive aspects” to high-IQ societies; the failures; more realistic purposes; the tests of Ivan Ivec; other societies than Mensa; Henning Ludvigsen; Kostantino Pataridis; hardly anyone drank at the Mensa meetings; logics; the journal; the new society; members from Europe, Asia, and North America; books; television, movies, or music of interest; interesting discoveries in medicine; a paradigm shift; and favourite issue of the society journal.
Keywords: Claus Volko, Facebook, fuzzy logic, Henning Ludvigsen, High IQ societies, Ivan Ivec, Jungian Personality Theory, Kostantino Pataridis, Mensa International, Metaphysics, Prudentia, Symbiont Conversion Theory, Vienna.
Conversation with Claus Volko, M.D. on High-I.Q. Societies: Member, World Genius Directory (6)
*Please see the references, footnotes, and citations, after the interview, respectively.*
*Interview conducted in late 2020. The delay is personal idiocy, not his.*
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Why are most “high IQ societies are not much more than websites with member lists”?
Claus Volko, M.D.[1],[2]*: Mostly because they are international organizations that have members in a large number of countries but not many members in a single country. So there are no real-life, face-to-face meetings.
Jacobsen: How is Mensa in Austria able to host monthly meetings in Vienna?
Volko: There are about 200 members living in Vienna.
Jacobsen: What is the current size of Prudentia?
Volko: Right now we have 46 members.
Jacobsen: The journal publications seem short in the first analysis. Why short for some of these first issues of the journal?
Volko: I decided to publish a new issue of the journal whenever I had new material to publish instead of keeping collecting material until a certain amount would have been gathered.
Jacobsen: What happens on the Facebook group?
Volko: Not much yet. Mostly introducing new members.
Jacobsen: What is the membership size and demographics now?
Volko: There are members from Europe, Asia and North America.
Jacobsen: Why is Facebook the social medium for the high-IQ individuals?
Volko: Well, most people have a Facebook account. So why should they not use it.
Jacobsen: In regards to “only positive aspects” to high-IQ societies, what are the positive aspects of societies like Prudentia and Mensa International?
Volko: Prudentia has a nice journal with some highly interesting articles, e.g. on Symbiont Conversion Theory and on the Synthesis of Metaphysics and Jungian Personality Theory.
Jacobsen: If, in theory, they could perform such a function apart from the postsecondary institutional environment and the long-term existence of the societies. Why the failures to do it? Also, is this reasonable with the fact that most “high IQ societies are not much more than websites with member lists”?
Volko: High IQ societies need to publish more educational and scientific articles.
Jacobsen: Following from the previous question, why not simply have the more straightforward notion of the evidenced existence of social communities for the highly intelligence alongside academia as a more concrete and realistic contributor to the needs of society? One can point to the failures of academia. However, its benefits would seem to far outweigh its costs and the high-IQ societies appear, as you noted, “not much more than websites with member lists.” As well, what other more realistic purposes could high-IQ societies perform in the early 21st century, even the middle 21st century?
Volko: Basically high IQ societies are a means of getting to know people. It does not matter which society one belongs to, people connect with each other via Facebook and talk.
Jacobsen: Why the tests of Ivan Ivec?
Volko: They are pretty well-made and have decent norms.
Jacobsen: Are there any other societies than Mensa providing real in-person meetings?
Volko: Intertel has annual gatherings, as far as I know.
Jacobsen: What are some examples of the works of Henning Ludvigsen exemplfiying his talent?
Volko: He has made a lot of great drawings, e.g. title pictures of some issues of Hugi Magazine.
Jacobsen: What are some examples of the works of Kostantino Pataridis exemplfiying his talent?
Volko: His best work in my opinion is “Happiness is around the bend”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQngoCBvq3Q.
Jacobsen: Why do you think hardly anyone drank at the Mensa meetings? Did you ever drink akin to fellow high school students in high school?
Volko: I don’t often drink, only when others around me drink too. I think Mensa members are proud of their intelligence and know that alcohol may harm their intellect, so they avoid it.
Jacobsen: Are there logics in which the assigning of values “true” and “false” simply fail?
Volko: There are also multi-valued logics such as fuzzy logic where a probability that the value is true is assigned to it.
Jacobsen: What topics would you hope to explore in the journal as the society membership grows?
Volko: I would like to explore topics related to all of science and philosophy. Prudentia is a high IQ society that is primarily for academics and people with interest in science and philosophy. The journal is supposed to give these people a platform where they can present their own original ideas.
Jacobsen: How big do you hope to grow the new society? That is, what would be your highest hopes?
Volko: More important than the number of members is their activity. I would like to have a group of members who regularly contribute to the journal. If I manage to gather such a group, Prudentia has been a success.
Jacobsen: Of those members from Europe, Asia, and North America, are most from Europe?
Volko: Yes, currently most of our members are from Europe.
Jacobsen: Have you been reading any books as of late?
Volko: Admittedly, no. Due to Corona the bookshops are closed and I haven’t read any of the books I have at home in recent days. But I would like to read the textbooks on introductory math and physics for university students which I purchased some time ago soon.
Jacobsen: Any interesting television, movies, or music of interest to you?
Volko: I regularly watch an Austrian television programme in which the participants tell each other jokes. In addition, I enjoy watching quiz programmes. My favourite movies are the Bourne saga, the Mission Impossible saga, the Divergent trilogy and the Indiana Jones movies.
Jacobsen: What are some interesting discoveries in medicine alongside Symbiont Conversion Theory?
Volko: Recently a new DNA shape has been discovered, and artificial intelligence has been applied to discover 3D protein foldings.
Jacobsen: Do you think philosophy, science, or theology are due for a paradigm shift? If so, why so? If not, why not? This can be outside of the earlier professional propositions by you.
Volko: I am not sure about this and I have no idea whether anybody is able to assess this at all. My view is that every person has a different opinion and that there is not a uniform scientific paradigm.
Jacobsen: What is your favourite issue of the society journal so far?
Volko: I like the second and the third issue very much because of their original scientific contents. Also, “The Synthesis of Metaphysics and Jungian Personality Theory” is a very good article, in my opinion (I know that I am praising myself here, as I am the author, but I would be of the same view if any other person had written the article).
Footnotes
[1] Member, World Genius Directory; Member, Nobel Society; Member, Prometheus 2.0 Society; Advisor; GIGA Society.
[2] Individual Publication Date: July 22, 2022: http://www.in-sightpublishing.com/volko-6; Full Issue Publication Date: September 1, 2022: https://in-sightjournal.com/insight-issues/.
*High range testing (HRT) should be taken with honest skepticism grounded in the limited empirical development of the field at present, even in spite of honest and sincere efforts. If a higher general intelligence score, then the greater the variability in, and margin of error in, the general intelligence scores because of the greater rarity in the population.
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