[armatav]

Is everyone an ‘eccentric genius’ with some magical disorder these days? Or just bloggers?

And where’s the source for the white matter structural deformity “delaying” signal processing by “a fraction of a second”, I’m very interested in how that works since it makes no sense that a signaling channel in the brain would suffer a large delay like that.

[falseprofit]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221315821...

“Microstructural abnormalities of fibers in primary sensory tracts and/or in tracts connecting multimodal association areas may result in loss of the precise timing of action potential propagation needed to accomplish accurate sensory processing and MSI.”

They’re measuring properties of this microstructure, not the delay it supposedly is responsible for.

But I’d point out that calling “a fraction of a second” “large” is making a big assumption about the fraction.

[username90]

There are by definition many millions of people in the top 2% of intelligence and that is enough to be called a genius at school.

[smoldesu]

I too am tired of reading about self-proclaimed geniuses on Substack/Medium, calling out to their (oftentimes paying) followers, and throwing up another invisible goalpost that represents intellegence.

It's all so tiring.