An interesting thesis, but I think your optimism about people's learning capacities comes from lack of experience; and I don't think the hardware analogy gets us far.
" There don't really seem to be humans who tower above us in terms of their ability to soak up new information and process it." — this has not been shown for people in general.
"My understanding was just based on my own experience, which is probably biased." Correct me if I am wrong, but I get the impression that you have not spent much time with people who have difficulty learning to read, or to add up, or to remember what they seemed to learn... (read more)
An interesting thesis, but I think your optimism about people's learning capacities comes from lack of experience; and I don't think the hardware analogy gets us far.
" There don't really seem to be humans who tower above us in terms of their ability to soak up new information and process it." — this has not been shown for people in general.
"My understanding was just based on my own experience, which is probably biased." Correct me if I am wrong, but I get the impression that you have not spent much time with people who have difficulty learning to read, or to add up, or to remember what they seemed to learn... (read more)