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To: frankw1900 who wrote (34200)	3/13/2004 10:07:08 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793835

I think it very likely high achievers' brains are different. And I think it very likely that to some degree these traits are inherited. I have no doubt that Intelligence is Nature. Nurture can help, but it can't replace a slow CPU. Not yet, anyway. We have so much storage capacity that the increase in brain cell activity that Derek posted about is nice, but not a factor. Not unless it is speeding up the access to memory. The brain may or may not work like a computer, but it's functions can certainly be described in those terms. Will we come up with a chemical that we can take to speed up our "CPU?" Probably. And most likely as a result of our Alzheimer research.