Paul Hughes wrote:
>>I think the difference between an institutionalized "insane"
'gene:
> I think brilliant cranks are a yet another urban legend.
Yes, I'd go for the crank over crankiness.
I am amazed when learning of case studies where a person once thought of as
being a genius, later in life is institutionalized as being insane. Such
as with William Sidis who could read and spell at 2, invented new table of
logarithms at 8, spoke six languages at 10, and at the age of 11 was
enrolled at Harvard and graduated at 16. Later in his 20s, he became
cranky, obsessive and somewhat autistic in his behavior.
>> person and a functioning genius is much thinner than we want to admit.
In response to xebec's post in this thread,
>>If we cannot determine what are NORMAL levels or what we can change
Anders commented:
>Personally I disagree with the view that more intelligen people have
>> to change our emotions, then theoretically, the
>> more intelligent someone is, the more trouble they can run into when
>> something goes wrong.
>higher ups and downs - it smacks of the romantic notion of the
>tormented genius.
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