R C Macaulay
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:52:07 -0700
Howdy Ed,This thread is becoming most interesting because it deals with a voyage toward a science of ideas where, once embarked upon that sea, there can be no return. Our decision then becomes that of selecting the posture one takes in the boat, As the human species of flesh on an earth, populated by animals, we alone, do not practice survival of the fittest. Jones touched on this subject some time back with his comment on "maji". On occasion, in history, a single brilliant mind may rise every couple hundred years. One of my grandchildren is in private school for gifted children. These children have every resource available for their education and they demonstrate certain intellectual heights that cannot be otherwise explained except to describe them as "gifted". The school has yet to reveal a maji after 60 years and some 100 grads per year. The school has children from across the earth. There are perhaps a half dozen schools like this in the USA. The represent a form of "intellectual" survival of the fittest. There are examples of this practice in history.. Alexandria, Byzantine, Seville, Florence, etc. There are also schools on earth for the black arts. The US government is now budgeting a fortune toward these black arts schools.
Richard Ed Storms wrote,
Of course, these ideas are not accepted because the process is not very reproducible and has no theoryto explain it. (Does this sound familiar?) In addition, as Steven pointed out, a person with this ability might want to hid this fact.