<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span class="gmail-m_-9017443736172595418gmaildefault" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">People were always asking human geniuses like Einstein and Feynman how they got their ideas but they could never give satisfactory answers, if they could we'd all be as smart as they were. John</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><font size="1">I dispute that. In math some people just can't go beyond a certain point in complexity. They just don't have the right brain for it (Einstein, for example, had more glial cells than normal - I doubt if injecting glial cells into your brain will make you an Einstein).. If, for example, in geometry you tried to teach someone how to mentally rotate a complicated object and pick out the figure that it looks like from the other side, you would find one, that males are better at it, and two, that it cannot be taught. Some people are just more spatial than other. I am spatial. How about you?</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><font size="1"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><font size="1">bill w</font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 12:22 PM Spike Jones <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-9017443736172595418WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Superhuman Poker<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 10:43 AM Dave Sill <<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail-m_-9017443736172595418gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">>> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">People were always asking human geniuses like Einstein and Feynman how they got their ideas but they could never give satisfactory answers, if they could we'd all be as smart as they were. John</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail-m_-9017443736172595418gmaildefault"><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">> </span></i></span><i>At least Einstein and Feynman could talk intelligently about abstract concepts. Dave</i><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">There are sometimes conceptual breakthroughs based on a misunderstanding or incomplete knowledge of the subject matter. This leads to the observation: it is remarkable what one can accomplish when one does not know what one cannot do.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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