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 theory
to explain it. (Does this sound familiar?) In addition, as Steven pointed
out, a person with this ability might want to hid this fact.
