Better Wired Brains

[ysabetwordsmith]

Smart people may have brains that are better wired to work more effectively.  In other news, water is wet.

I'm still waiting for anyone else to notice that one of the options is simply not having all the human-standard factory junk in your head, thus leaving room for different stuff.  I don't have a fancy social wetware.  I have a linguistic coprocessor.  This pleases me.

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[acelightning]

My broadest mental skill seems to be the ability to connect seemingly very dissimilar things; for example, I use the the same techniques to interpret both sewing patterns and circuit diagrams, I use plumbing supplies and/or Sugru for auto repairs, and sometimes cake decorating is a form of construction. I'm also dangerously curious about almost everything :-)

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I share the tendency to connect disparate things and to be curious about everything. I also have a high-powered extrapolative engine that extends "what if?" far and wider.

Re: Yes ...

[acelightning]

So do I :-)

These are some of the reasons I'm enjoying what I've seen so far of your universes, and eagerly looking forward to learning more.

Re: Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Yay! It's just so much fun to think about the possibilities.

Re: Yes ...

[acelightning]

I've got a LOT of catching up to do! :-)

[zeeth_kyrah]

Engineers take congruent patterns of physical function and work them. Linguists do the same with patterns of meaning.

[acelightning]

I do a little of both. I'm too severely math-impaired to be an engineer, but I'm a very good technician and tinkerer. And I discovered, to my own surprise, when I went to Quebec (province) for the first time, that I was able to understand and make myself understood in Quebecois French, based mostly on the bits of "culinary French" I absorbed from cookbooks.

Also, I actively enjoy learning stuff - almost any kind of stuff - and go out of my way to find stuff to learn :-)

[cmcmck]

Who knew eh?

But then my brain wiring was weird from the get go! :o)

the sky is more than blue

[(Anonymous)]

...and my brain is not your brain. The social processing in my brain ignores the subtlety of nom-verbal social interaction and body language and also ignores the tone and facial expression that I produce.....this makes making friends in real life difficult to do.

Re: the sky is more than blue

[ysabetwordsmith]

Yeah, not all brains are fun to live in.

Finding facetime friends is hard for me too, but for different reasons. Chiefly, being smart means that my interests are different than those of almost everyone else. An average person can walk into a room of random folks and find lots of potential matches. For me, the chance is less than 1% on the mental scale alone, before even factoring in personal tastes in religion or entertainment. So it's a materials-flow problem; the density just isn't high enough for much success.

Online I do fine. I can sift through a world full of people. \o/

wetware

[callibr8]

*ROTFL*

The usual two-edged sword... I don't have "factory standard" junk either, and I ducked out on a lot of the societal-constraint cr@p that most people are brainwashed into downloading, due to the combination of "foo [family of origin] goo" and other environmental factors.

Like ysabetwordsmith, I think that my brain works considerably more effectively than most other humans I've met, and I have a mounting body of evidence that says its clock speed is noticeably faster as well. There are downsides to this, but I'll keep the setup I have, and treasure it for the gift from the Universe, that it is.