On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:50:18 -0400, Cryptoengineer
Post by CryptoengineerIntellectual development any given person is absolutely a combination
of Nature and Nurture - and the differences we see around us are, I
suspect, due more the latter than the former.
However, intelligence absolutely has a genetic factor, else it could
not have evolved. You don't have twice the brain matter of Lucy because
of how you were brought up.
I completely agree with you.
My mother's paternal grandfather commanded a ship in the Royal Navy in
WW1 (In peace time he had first been a yacht captain then became a
commercial fishing captain before WW1 and afterwards)
His son, my maternal grandfather was first a commercial fisherman who
later became a cannery owner and after that ran twice (unsuccessfully)
for the Canadian parliament. My brother and I have teased each other
for years as to which of us he taught more to - he learned the
saxophone and soccer, I was taught chess. (I'm no master but have been
on the national executive of the Chess Federation of Canada and won an
international award)
Mom was a high school teacher while raising the two of us.
My 3 children were all tested as 'gifted' - my eldest did combined
honors history and Russian, my second became a commercial artist, my
youngest is an electrical engineer - you would be correct in thinking
their talents lie is very different directions. His daughter is only
two but is well ahead of herself in her vocabulary so we're hopeful :)
I've read 2 or 3 books a week (some reasonably thick) including a lot
of science fiction pretty much since my early teens (not counting
during business school) and have been with computers of some sort or
another for 40+ years - my kids were very early internet adopters...
Doesn't make me better than anybody else but the above speaks to a
pro-education home background. I would suspect that to be the norm for
anyone who is enough of an SF fan to hang around somewhere like here.