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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (155404)	12/7/2008 10:49:15 AM
From: koan	Respond to of 361760

I believe there is no such thing as smart. There is "smartyness"-lol. Everyone has a unique mind. We are all Einstein's in a sense. What Einstein acheived was amazing, but he had huge blind spots too. There are many things any of us are smarter about than Einstein. Some of his social ideas were pretty simplistic. And he never could accept certain aspects of quantum physics like the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle HUP. And like all of us he was part genius and part buffoon. The way the mind works goes right down to the cellular level. So we all have very unique minds. E.g. if certain exact same genes come from the father instead of the mother, the offspring will usually be more aggressive. The way the different parts of the brain interact matters. Possibly what autism is about e.g. the brain not coordinating effectively enough to create a viable reality for survival. Then there is learning, whereby the mind creates software (the expert mind) and hardware (more brain cells) to assist it in thinking. Chess, and poker players, and academic smarts, are "created" through learning. Learning is primarily where the geniuses come from. Einstein did know all of the physics of the day when he figured out relativity. So he was an academic. And if Einstein hadn't existed someone else would have figured out relativity within a few years. Its time had come.