The Glia Society
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The Glia Society |
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The Glia Society is an international organization for friendly contact between intelligent individuals. For membership, there are requirements in the form of scores on selected high-range intelligence tests. Follow the hyper references below for more information.
Goals of the Glia Society, founded in 1997 by Paul Cooijmans, are to be a forum for the intelligent and encourage intelligence-related research. The society has over three hundred members in more than thirty countries on five continents, the lion's share though residing in Europe and North America (and less than ten in the Netherlands).
Glia stands for a type of brain cell - the glia, glial or neuroglia cell - that in various ways supports and feeds the neurons. Einstein had many more glia cells per neuron than the average person. Members are analogous to neurons. The Glia Society is a worldwide network of linked brains; a hyper-brain.
The journal "Thoth", in digital form, is members-only and appears bimonthly. It guarantees absolute freedom of speech and has no editorial changes or censorship of any kind. Thoth is filled with members' submissions, and occasionally contains material by others.
The Glia Society has a members-only web site and e-mail fora (both moderated and unmoderated). Very occasionally there are meetings organized by small groups of members.
Members' birth years vary roughly from the 1920s to the late 1980s, the bulk being between 1950 and 1990.
Thoth, Egyptian moon god, weighed the hearts of deceased to determine if they would be admitted to the hereafter or, if the examination was failed, torn apart by a monster. To enter Glia though it suffices to pass one of a chosen array of tests, or submit proof of a prior qualifying score.
Required for admission is to be above the level of one in a thousand of the adult population in intelligence, as defined on the Qualification page found through the link above.
Official tasks are performed by the founder and by several other members. The society is not incorporated and has never had a formal constitution or formal democratic procedures.