Being considered a genius is all about the questions they are being asked, you might consider a doctor a genius in his field of study but you get him dealing with working on his car or geology and he would be as dumb as the village idiot. Even the IQ tests are suppose to be on a general knowledge nothing specific so they can try not and be bias for any field.

In grad school educational psychology classes the term potential was often tossed around as in - it is a matter of ones potential rather than performance

but I don't agree - the performance is the potential - not that it can't iprove or become more intelligent - but anything less than what actually is, is supposed not real

so I don't really believe in potential regarding human performance - but I do as a matter of physics where it can be measured

part of the reason is because it can only be supposed, therefore, has no limit and could apply to anyone

genius is a gift as in a music virtuoso or someone with the knack for predicting turns in the stock market. more often than not it is also based on much effort, tho' there are those who can complete lengthy math equations in their heads and such. Much of it is innate to be manifest it requires effort

Hiya greeneyed.!

We are in shock mode...this time of year the overnight temps usually meander somewhere around 11 degrees celcius...and we have expereinced minus 1...unheard of!

I'm in the subtropics...similar to your florida temps...usually.

.. genius equals the least stupid person in a group of idiots,just like the least fat chick in a group of fatter chicks equals skinny..so in essence it is all about the company you keep..so if one would like to be thought of as a genius..just find those who are dumber than you ..and hang out with them...

when an exceptionally creative inquisitive sharp mind meets an interesting, important and difficult question

http://youtu.be/Krfjmn-l0Xk

Can't say he isn't thinking!

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are u sure you meant to post this here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3gZA4_FwUQ&feature=related

not sure how this will post

but here it is. the answer to ur question, I mean


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thank you

Genius is a combination of cognitive abilities coming together in such a way as to create extraordinary mental control over one or more subjects.

I urge anyone that is interested in this topic to first try to detail some cognitive abilities.

I will get it started with . . . . recall, if you cant remember you cant be a genius.

I'll add the following:

APPLY information that you RECALL in new ways

Kim Peek has read over 12000 books and his reading speed is phenominal. Kim can RECALL with 98% accuracy everything he's read but Kim cannot take this information and reapply it to new situations or in unique ways.

Kim certainly has a special kind of talent which some refer to as genius sevantism - he is the model of Dustin Hoffman's character the Rainman.

I hate these resident geniuses who reside in me, they talk all day, don't bring anything to the table and sometimes bicker with each other. They certainly don't pay rent, at least not enough for all the trouble they cause.

They lie down in my mind without taking their muddy boots off first!! Gott im Himmel.

I have been planting palm trees the last two days

Smart thinking ahead into the future... someone to shake your hands in a few years. (The "palm" trees.)

It is interesting to also see that we have now (only 4 I think) nuclear plants that uses fossils fuels
ahem... did you not just finish saying that all plants use fossil fuels? Carbon dioxide? Which is it? all trees or only nuclear trees, that use fossil carbon dioxides as fuels?

I doubt anyone will shake my hand for planting two palm trees. lol

What I was talking about with Jess (which was carried over from another thread) is about a documentary called "Power Surge" that shows a scientist that uses certain fibers to catch carbon dioxide to clean our air. He cuts them in strips and attaches them together to form what looks like a pine tree. He wants to use them in the future to clean our air. Sir Richard Bronsan (owner of Virgin Records and Airlines) gives a reward each year of about 35 million dollars to the most innovative scientist on ideas to stop Global Warming, so the documentary shows the different ideas at hand. It starts with how the planet evolved and how our palm trees use to absorb the tons of carbon dioxides in the air, which eventually made them die becoming millions of years later fossil fuels in which we for the last 100 years take back out to harm our Earth's atmosphere.

Concerning the nuclear plants : We have some scientists who create industries that take the carbon dioxide for our energy uses but do not allow the carbon dioxides to escape into the air but instead back into the earth instead. There are supposingly only 4 plants existing that do this. One is in Algeria.

Our Nuclear plants (which is more then 4) are outdated. I think the latest was made in the 1970s. China is making so many...I think they will have over 400 of them by 2030?? They are more modern also with up to date technology of somekind to prevent such catastrophes like we just witnessed from Japan.

Anyway I have been chatting with Jess on ideas of how we can keep up with our planet by keeping it clean and viable for future generations. I have a video to watch on another thread concerning the topic called "The Home Movie Documentary". Check it out if you like. It is interesting. If you don't believe in global warming then at least enjoy the breathtaking videos of various land sceneries that the team created for the movie. The other video by NOVA is "Power Surge" Documentary created this year. You can find it on pbs.org



I believe scientists who invent useful things are considered geniuses in many ways. If they attained it through hard work or are genetically born with brightness is something still debated today amongst many who study the brain function. There is a video on that also which is interesting on youtube! Here is the link - It is called "What makes a Genius" hosted by BBC - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmuwc-4sf6I

Awesome example of someone who forces us to rethink the relationship between aptitude with a small set of skills and overall intelligence.

"What makes a Genius" hosted by BBC - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmuwc-4sf6I

To do is to be. -- Socrates, 537 B.C.

To be is to do. -- Johann Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882 A.D.

Do be do be do. -- Frank "The Crooner" Sinatra, 1968 A.D.

Interesting what you write about potential.

I would counter that it can't be measured, but it is perceptible. It is perceptible much like objects in space are, by two eyes, each of which is capable only of two-dimensional perception. Our brain takes the two pieces of two-dimensional perceptions, and creates a 3D image of it mentally. We don't "see" 3D, we "perceive" 3D.

Much the same with potential. A four year old child is not very good at saying which grade seven student has potential to be a great writer or a great basketball player, but a literature or physics teacher of the same two students may be able to very accurately predict the potential of these grade seven students.

This is so because the teachers have passed many students who studied under them, the teachers got to know these students, and whether the teachers wanted or not, they processed and sotred information on all their students that later helped them form generalizations, including an ability to recognize patterns, which helped see which students are likely to be great at this or at that sport or academic endeavour.

"Potential of an individual" is an interpreted image by a seasoned, experienced person of the individual's predicted maximum achievement; this prediction can be fairly accurate, depending on the amount of experience and expertise of the person.

The seasoned, experienced person sees clues that he has seen in other individuals that went on to become achievers, and these clues were not in individuals that were not to become great achievers, in a discipline or another. Then the mental interpretation is applied.

This supposes that a person who is not familiar in recognizing these clues, is never going to be able to recognize potential. This is also true, as many farm hands all over the world never became world famous painters of physicists, only because their masters had no experience in recognising these farm hands' and charwomen's potentials.

If more than one seasoned, experienced persons predict the same for a given individual, then the likelyhood of additional seasoned, experienced people giving the same predicted potential to an individual is high.

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On the interpretive quality of our brains: You see images upside down, and when you move your eyes to the left, the image moves to the left even more. But your hands, and feeling of touch, has helped your brain as a very young baby, to adjust the seen image to be seen in a way that your touch with your hands verifies it.

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Similarly, you hear the street noise from the window, your tv's noise from where the tv is. That's an other interpretive function of the brain, to put things where they are. If you get your ear (one or the other, or both) plugged up for a week, and after the weekt he plug is taken out, you hear high-pitched noise in that ear, right there, you have no 3D placement for them. In a day your brain readjusts, and puts the noises (a streetcar, a dog's bark, etc.) into their places, and you will also notice less of a lot of disturbing, high-pitched sounds, because your brain also filters out unnecessary, unimportant elements of sounds.

This happened to me when I had an ear-infection. The doctor (my cousin) put in a cotton swath soaked in an antiseptic solution for a week, and when I took it out finally, I had the same sensation as above.

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Potential can be recognised, before the action happens that proves it. This is my antithesis to yours, and I hope I gave a reasonable explanation how I think it is done.

Genius is nothing more than a very specific area where skill/talent abides.

Ie. Linguistics, arts, sciences....

Geniuses are often so focused in a singular aspect of thier lives that they excell at, that mundane tasks and common senses escape them in many other areas. I have no evidence but, no doubt that genius is an amalgamation of genetic propensities coupled with personal focus.

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There is a naked man on this forum, with two bits of nipples!!

hide the women and the booze, and head for the hills!!