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Originally Posted by Yagan Kiely
So you think that Mozart and Beethoven were born with the ability to compose music? It was an inane gift, there is a part of their brain that is specifically geared towards the abstract art of music, a form of art that has no reference to human evolution?
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What I'm questioning, Yagan, is not whether or not there's any scientific evidence to support or dismiss the idea of 'genius', but your own
absolute assertion that a person cannot be born with innate potentiality for exceptional ability in any given area of life.
Why should 'natural' equate 'born with'? Cannot some natural ability be latent; encouraged to flower to a quite extraordinary extent later in a person's life with the aid of top-flight education, personal enthusiasm/ambition and other 'ideal' circumstances? Would it not then be appropriate to call such a flowering 'genius', especially if that flowering results in demonstrable achievements that tower over those of others who've benefited from similarly excellent situations?
If I mean anything by the term 'genius', sir, I most certainly mean this.
FK