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Scaling Knowledge

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The Power of Creativity

I agree with Brett that the mind the pure creativity of a person is probably the most determinant factor in deciding if they can make a scientific contribution. I think being creative creativity my feeling is it's a little bit like math where the act of multiplying two numbers isn't creative but the end output might look creative. There are such things as inborn ideas and these can differ between people in a trivial sense you know we're going to have genetic differences between people which code for a different number of rods and cones in the eye so when we look out into the world your reds might be brighter than my reds, my blues might be more vivid than your blues and that's just for

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