Audiences who attend a lecture can be divided into three types: (1) those who are totally disengaged since they are preoccupied with their laptops, iPhones, and so on; (2) those who must write everything down to put all details of the lecture to memory; and (3) those who absorb the details effortlessly without any note taking. Type 1 necessitates no discussion. For Type 2, once the declarative information is transferred to the neocortex via the hippocampus there is no stored information present to merge existent information with the new information, namely, the listener is lacking in knowledge. Type 3 recalls the key contents of the lecture instantly. This individual has sufficient knowledge within the neocortex upon which the declarative information from the lecture can be merged. Type 3 individuals ask the best questions since they have a high-level of consciousness as it relates to the seminar topic.
Einstein was good at physics, Kasparov was good at chess, and Pelé was good at football. For these individuals, consciousness as mediated by the neocortex was configured according to their mission in life. The consciousness possessed by different individuals is so varied that making a new acquaintance is an exploration into the unknown. To quote Forrest Gump (Fig. 1): “Mamma always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” And this certainly applies to the quality of consciousness contained within different individuals.
Figure 1: Forrest Gump.
Some views on creativity, which is built on extraordinary amounts of knowledge most of which is archived to the unconscious over a person’s lifetime (Tehovnik, Hasanbegović, Chen 2024). So, if you are a young student, you will need to get to work on your acquisition of knowledge: continuous doing and reading is all there is, the fruits of which may or may not be realized for this depends on some genetics--but everything you do in life is a crap-shoot (to quote the late Prof. Peter H Schiller) including the genetics--and you only find out about your talents by trying:
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Von Neumann's closest friend in the United States was the mathematician Stanisław Ulam.[75] Von Neumann believed that much of his mathematical thought occurred intuitively; he would often go to sleep with a problem unsolved and know the answer upon waking up.[62] Ulam noted that von Neumann's way of thinking might not be visual, but more aural.[76]
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