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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess where I may differ is that you seem a little farther along the spectrum than I am, in thinking that mental capacity may be infinitely elastic. [/quote]

I'm probably more agnostic on that question than it might seem in this context.  Basically, I think that the binding constraint right now is cultural.  Until we get beyond that (which, given your point re resources, we're probably not likely to do any time soon), I don't think we'll see what role our biological limits play.  If claims like we only use 10% of our brain are anywhere near true, we've got a long way to go.  And if recent work on genetics that suggests that what genes can do is, in part, a function of environment, we may be talking about moving frontiers rather than brick walls.

So I guess I may be more culturally pessimistic and/or more biologically optimistic than most...  I do believe that many more people could be what we now consider gifted.  Whether in that world they'd still be left in the dust by the top fraction of percent of the population (and how that fraction would be defined/identified), I don't know.  And, really, I probably don't care.  There will always be exceptional people and the truly exceptional will always be rare enough to be irreducible to a formula.  And they aren't the people you build the world around -- it'd be a disservice to everybody else and besides they'll probably build their own worlds (or want to), regardless.  [/quote]

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