Re: Smartest man who ever lived?
I was actually going to post another reply before you posted yours, because I have yet to give a great defintion of what we're looking at.
Here goes...
If EVERY person who ever lived, were reared in the EXACT same situation, then whomever was the 'smartest' person from these (somehow) independent experiments, would be the smartest person to ever live, genetically speaking.
Do you see what I mean, now?
Dont get me wrong, I agree that intelligence is a combination of both genetics and environment, but, what this subthread is discussing, is the question:
Is it likely that whomever would be the smartest under those conditions is known to us today?
Again, the answer is a pretty clear 'no', IMO.
BUT, fwiw, I do agree with you 100% that the smartest REALIZED intelligence, was 99.999999% certain to have lived since recorded time.
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