>>13845657>No. Being better man having intuitions and reading books do not give you this.In every single instrumental and practical way it does. You can talk about genius and magical insight and innate talent all you want, but you simply can do more with encyclopaedic knowledge and understanding of modern physics and geometry than Einstein can. Hell, even using late 19th century and early 20th century pure mathematics only, you can get to everything Einstein has done with relativity with no effort at all. Hell, that actually even happened in reality with mathematicians of his era who got introduced to the same things Einstein was doing - Einsteins great feat was Hilberts footnote. And in terms of actual progress - many problems in the real world get solved with no creative insight whatsoever, you can provide a fuckton of value by just being the first person to learn a pair or triple of subjects that were not learned in that combination in any useful by someone else, do the obvious things and get a name for yourself. Thats just how life works - in this year you do more with less of a brain than people would before. Eventually humans will be able to engineer themselves to be able to be physically more intelligent and not just have greater external tools - at which point your intelligence(and/or the intelligence of your children) will be measured in the size of your bank account. We might be the last generation for whom god given intelligence has any value, maybe even the last actual humans.
I'll cap this off with a question - is Wiles more genius than Euler? Has Wiles achieved something that people in the 18th and 19th century were never able to? And if he did, how did he do it?
>>13845654Yes, they are, and please dont tell me BS about the Dirac equation being a sensible relativistic equation for electrons, it isn't and you know it.
