Re: Genius
Reply #9 –
I'd agree, Jimbro, with your definition. Certainly, that IQ is a measure of something else -if not entirely- altogether different. Genius is -like pornography- something easily recognized but difficult to define.
What I'd ask, at this point, is how you felt — when even those who gave the link to the Wiki page failed to understand the author and his authority? But that only as a prelude to what you'd say about Turing… (I've read some of his published work: Indeed, he was a genius. If you're familiar with Gödel's work, you know that Turing offered the same sort of proof…of the same limitations of formal systems; but more general.)
Is there a point you wanted to make?
But before you bemoan Western society's prejudice against homosexuality: Consider Vlad the Impaler (whom you've mentioned, as if you knew him… ) Was he not a genius?
Of political organization and military strategy, certainly!
So. What was your point?