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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (315753)10/29/2016 6:15:20 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 540706
 
Why I think the human species is capable of more than we think. We all look at Einstein and say wow he was special. He was so much smarter than everybody else. But look at this from a different perspective.

The average physicist today has no trouble understanding what Einstein was talking about. They get it, they can comprehend it and in fact the top physicists moved past Einstein 75 years ago.

He figured it out first and that led to the misperception that he was smarter than everyone.

And Einstein did have a strong healthy mind, but he also knew all the physics in the world at the time. And the historians have speculated that the time he spent in the patent office helped him to think in a certain way that facilitated his answering the question:"" what is this thing called light?"

And from what I have read about how the mind works, what I believe today is that all of the years that Einstein was spending thinking about physics eventually produced the answer when the unconscious brain had enough information to spew it out.

Einstein said he just woke up one day and saw it, i.e that time was a relative variable, and I think that's how most big realizations come about. Not through a deductive process as many think. I think the deductive process works fine for simple stuff, but not complex abstraction.

So we have to quit thinking about smart and dumb and start thinking about developing the mind through a long-term commitment to do so.

We need to practice abstract thinking.
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