Kayrayzee.
I read a fascinating article the other day, about the fact that geniusness might be caused by Asperger's Syndrome, a hight-functioning form of autism. Two articles, even, one here and one here. The gist of these articles is as follows.
Many brilliant minds from the past -Darwin, Newton, Einstein, perhaps even Michelangelo- are reported to have suffered from this aforementioned Asperger's Syndrome, which (alleggedly) makes people more focussed, and, more importantly, more creative. Creative in the sense that they can exceed the 'normal' human capacity to create - they can create that which has never been created before. They can take nothing, and turn it into something. Is it, this article asks, therefore possible that a mental disorder like this can lead to geniusness? Be a prerequisite, even?
Is geniusness, in essence, a disease?
Apparently, the jury's still out, and will be, for quite a while.
Like I said, fascinating. What is infinitely more fascinating is a fact which both these articles seem to blatantly ignore - it has come to my attention, through sources in high places who wish to remain anynomous, that, and brace yourself here, all the brilliant minds I mentioned above, and many many more, have in actuality had, on some point on their body ..
.. a third nipple!
's True.
Cheers
Many brilliant minds from the past -Darwin, Newton, Einstein, perhaps even Michelangelo- are reported to have suffered from this aforementioned Asperger's Syndrome, which (alleggedly) makes people more focussed, and, more importantly, more creative. Creative in the sense that they can exceed the 'normal' human capacity to create - they can create that which has never been created before. They can take nothing, and turn it into something. Is it, this article asks, therefore possible that a mental disorder like this can lead to geniusness? Be a prerequisite, even?
Is geniusness, in essence, a disease?
Apparently, the jury's still out, and will be, for quite a while.
Like I said, fascinating. What is infinitely more fascinating is a fact which both these articles seem to blatantly ignore - it has come to my attention, through sources in high places who wish to remain anynomous, that, and brace yourself here, all the brilliant minds I mentioned above, and many many more, have in actuality had, on some point on their body ..
.. a third nipple!
's True.
Cheers
7 Comments:
one of the things with "genius-ness" is that it's like a lot of other things in the world. when more attention is paid to one part of something, other parts are forfeited or ignored. i'm not saying that einstein or any of the other third nipple guys were complaining that they were lacking in other areas...but it makes you think. like, seriously, einstein didn't have much in the way of fashion sense. and, seriously, do you think he could have had any sexual skills?
There is a really brilliant danish physicist who has to have all his clothes look exactly the same because he can't overcome having to pick out clothes in the morning.
Seth Brundle does the "lots of sets of the same clothes" thing in The Fly, and claims he got it from Einstein. He explained it by saying that it helped him concentrate on his work because he didn't have to waste any thought on what to wear.
Whether Einstein really did this as well, I don't know.
Well, the evidence is highly contended. It's one of those things you can never prove because those people are dead. Many are highly sceptical that Assigners is the cause of genius.
Still... interesting :-)
The thing I find most fascinating is that society is normally pushed forward by those that would be regarded as "weird" Joe normal never pushed the boundaries of science, music, movie, art, and so forth.
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Asperger's is being cited as the reason for many genius' problems - however there is a lack of evidence supporting this. Wikipedia also has Speilberg and Gates as being sufferers.
Is that so? Very interesting.
Cheers
I dunno if I believe that Michelangelo had autism. Usually autism focuses on one thing, and he did many things. He was a sculptor and a painter for one, which are two entirely different forms of art that require totally different talents. But clearly, I'm off the subject.
Oh well.
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