Traumwind - Machines to make us smart

Ok, so here is what fascinates me about that 'Savant for a day' thing: it proves very nicely what several people have been saying for a long time: We are all geniuses, only we move away from that for some reason. Creativity and intellect needn't be acquired, they need to be (re-)found in ourselves.
And there is also a deeply disturbing note about that article for me: it deals with external methods, crutches to re-discover our inherent genious. Machines that can make us smart. As if - being geniuses already - we coudn't achieve that state ourselves.

I'll rather think that like most things having to do with our brain/intellect we already posess all tools necessary to 'learn' (reprogram?) the skills needed to uncover those vast resources these magnetic stimulations seems to magically uncover in the subjects.

Go on, dream of machines that will make you smart (or drugs if you prefer). I for one will rather rely on learning how to use what I have. That'll still be around when the energy bill hasn't been paid.

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