Sat in a philosophy class today.

[Alawen]

I just read through all of his notes while thinking about your idea of motivation as the real distinguishing factor. On a complete tangent, I like his ideas about the purpose of democracy.

I'm trying to wrap my mind around your general model of how the human brain works. Are you saying that turning on one burner of the stove is a different thought process than turning on a different burner? Or just that finding my keys is different from locking the door? In either case, essentially no commonality at all and that learning something is not useful for learning any other thing however related?

Regarding your idea that despite some possible biological differences, everything really comes down to motivation, isn't that a bit rhetorical in practical terms? You seem to be saying that person A isn't really smarter than person B, he just wants to think more. How is that functionally different?