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The "math genius" Jason Padgett mentioned in the article has drawn a bunch of pretty pictures, but has authored zero research papers. Unless you define genius b
by tw1010 9y ago
The "math genius" Jason Padgett mentioned in the article has drawn a bunch of pretty pictures, but has authored zero research papers. Unless you define genius by how capable you are of impressing non-experts outside the field, how does he in any way apply to the definition?
- Karlozkiller 9y agoSpot on. The article focuses a lot on 'artistic genius'. Actually it jumps a lot between a great deal of things. There's a leap between the photographer who invented new technology, to Jason Padgett who began seeing the world in a weird way, to dementia-patients who begin drawing as parts of their brains decay. There's not much mentioned of geniuses in the meaning of people who further scientific theories like Einstein or whatever example one might give. They only hint that such people might often have autism, and try to explain that with left/right brain development. Which if I recall correctly has been highly disputed since the 1960 Nobel Prize. If nothing else the explanation of autism and savant autism in the article are gross oversimplifications.