A genius is one who is able to create new semantic maps out of intuition
The left hemisphere builds all of its conditioning and learning onto a bedrock of hard-wired imprinting. Thus, many existentially thinkable thoughts are socially unthinkable, since (a) everybody in a given society has roughly the same semantic imprint and (b) this is reinforced daily by assumptions that are mechanically taken for granted. Thus, a “genius” is one who, by some internal process, breaks through to the right hemisphere—a minor neurological miracle loosely called “intuition”—and comes back down to the left hemisphere with the capacity to paint a new semantic map, build a new model of experience. Needless to say, this is always a profound shock to those still trapped in the old robot-imprints.
References
- Wilson, A., Robert. Prometheus Rising Chapter 6 The Time-Binding Semantic Circuit (Location 1122). Grand Junction, Colorado: Hilaritas Press.
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