<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jan 29, 2011, at 6:21 PM, Dave Sill wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">That's a chess-specific example of learning. I'm talking about general learning.</span></blockquote><div><br></div>Are you certain people are all that different? Bobby Fischer was probably the greatest human chess player who ever lived and he was a total ignoramus and a thoroughly inferior creature in every other aspect of existence. </div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark </div><div><em><br></em></div><div><i><br></i></div></body></html>