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The gausses and ramanujans still have the same basic architecture though - we're measuring outliers in the same family, not comparing across families.
by sdenton4 3y ago
The gausses and ramanujans still have the same basic architecture though - we're measuring outliers in the same family, not comparing across families.
- naasking 3y agoIf by "basic architecture", you mean auditory, visual, and motor centres, sure, but we're clearly talking about higher cognitive abilities here. I'm not at all sure that they have the same architecture given Ramanujan had even less high school math than most American students, yet clearly took the same knowledge much further.
- sdenton4 3y agoIf you're saying Ramanujan had a drastically different brain architecture than other humans, it's an extraordinary claim which will require extraordinary evidence. Einstein's brain is well studied, and fundamentally human...