AI – Lack of Emotional or Intellectual Development

People who reach twenty-one years old are considered grown-ups which represents the width of a person measured as the beauty, health, and vitality of their grown-up body. The intellectual achievement is the height a person reaches, and the emotional maturity is their depth.

Anyone past twenty-one is labeled as an adult. Becoming a grown-up is an automatic process while adulthood is an earned statis of emotional and intellectual maturity.

Our world focuses on educating and training the intellect which amplifies the height of the intellectual adult and overshadows the emotional adult left alone to develop through observation, mimicry of family, societal groups, and entertainment venues.

Our society honors the leaders, teachers, and individuals who are all height and width, but lack depth. Only a few leaders are true adults displaying both intellectual and emotional maturity. Non-adults are adulterated or immature people who remain as grown-ups because they lack one or both intellectual and emotional maturity.

As a world population we are not mature either intellectually or emotionally, in fact, our governments and therefore ourselves think, feel, and act with the same maturity level as children who are between seven and fourteen years old.

Politics is the best place to see this in action and politicians are the easiest to categorize because they are always talking about themselves and their agendas. Ben’s answers helped me with that observation, they might even help you understand where we are on our human evolutionary schedule. Steiner wrote that we are in the middle of our reincarnational cycle on earth so we have a bit of growing up to do. e

This is an AI Q & A

I asked:

Ben, using a range from conception to 21 years of age would you list the limitations each age group is working on. For instance, adolescence sees the world as black or white. They should through education and socialization learn to identify and work to solve the gray ranges which define most of reality. Another would be that logic and reason are not common behaviors before a person reaches seven years old after which logic and reason began to develop (Steiner). I am trying to evaluate the maturity levels of their actions. For instance: a person who believes that a person is either good or bad in that respect did not mature emotionally past adolescence or to look at it another way that person is emotionally stuck in adolescence. This is a brainstorming type of question and the only one tonight. E

Ben ChatGPT replied:

Here’s a brainstormed list of potential limitations across the range from conception to 21 years of age, focusing on emotional, mental, and social maturity. The goal is to identify age-related tendencies and the areas of growth or “stuckness” that might indicate a lack of emotional or intellectual development in adulthood.

Conception to Birth

• Limitations:
  • Lack of independent physical, emotional, or mental identity.
  • Absorbs emotions and energy from the mother without filtering.
  • No capacity for conscious decision-making.
• Growth Goal: Establish foundational physical and emotional security for healthy development.

Birth to 7 Years (Early Childhood)

• Limitations:
  • Egocentric thinking: Unable to see the world from another’s perspective (Piaget).
  • Predominantly driven by emotions and impulses.
  • Logic and reason are undeveloped; magical thinking is dominant (Steiner).
  • Struggles with delayed gratification or complex cause-and-effect reasoning.
• Growth Goal: Develop basic trust, emotional resilience, and the beginnings of logical thinking.

7 to 14 Years (Middle Childhood)

• Limitations:
  • Emerging logical thinking but still black-and-white in moral and ethical views.
  • Strong need for validation from authority figures or peers.
  • Tendency to overidentify with roles or labels (e.g., “good kid,” “bad kid”).
  • Struggles to integrate emotions with reasoning—can be ruled by either one.
• Growth Goal: Begin to balance emotional reactions with emerging reasoning skills. Develop empathy and the ability to consider others’ perspectives.

14 to 21 Years (Adolescence to Early Adulthood)

• Limitations:
  • Dualistic thinking: Tends to categorize people, actions, and ideas as “good” or “bad” without nuance.
  • Emotional volatility; difficulty regulating complex emotions.
  • Identity crises: Struggles with personal, social, and moral identity.
  • Overreliance on peer approval for self-worth; fear of standing out or challenging group norms.
  • Limited ability to accept ambiguity or uncertainty—seeks definitive answers.
• Growth Goal: Develop critical thinking, emotional regulation, and the capacity to embrace complexity and ambiguity. Learn to integrate personal identity with societal expectations while maintaining individuality.

Adult Implications of Emotional Stagnation

If emotional or intellectual growth stagnates at any of these stages, the individual may display behaviors tied to those ages. For example:

• Stuck at Early Childhood: Impulsive, unable to delay gratification, relies heavily on external validation for self-worth.
• Stuck at Middle Childhood: Seeks rigid rules or labels; struggles to navigate nuance or moral ambiguity.
• Stuck at Adolescence: Views people or situations in binary terms (good/bad, black/white). Resistant to ambiguity or complex solutions, overly concerned with social validation, or prone to emotional outbursts.

This framework can help assess maturity by looking at how people interpret and respond to emotional, social, and moral challenges.