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Einstein had extraordinary spatial intelligence, but he was totally outclassed by Von Neumann in math. Who's considered the more consequential genius?

+1 for shape rotators

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Is it true that Einstein had extraordinary spatial intelligence? (I'm not contradicting you, just asking)

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"...the creative thought process responsible for the relativity theory and all the other Einsteinian innovations was completely nonverbal and was mediated through the constructive manipulation of mentally visualized images."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002221947300600702?journalCode=ldxa

"The brain regions active during visuospatial creativity are analogous to the structures that were increased in density and convolution in Einstein's brain. It is also interesting to note that these regions share many overlapping similarities with the mirror neuron network (Rizzolatti and Craighero, 2004). Additionally, Einstein's left inferior parietal lobule and right SPL were unusually large and may have been responsible in part for his increased creative and spatial abilities, respectively."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3822289/

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Thanks, I appreciate it.

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Don't mention it my Hebrew friend. We cold, blue-eyed northern seers never would have fallen for Pythagorean Judaism (i.e. Christianity) if it weren't for your visionary prophets.

Don't shortchange yourselves: Jews can see things in their minds, too, whether wordcel rabbis recognize this or not.

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Einstein's main advantage over Von Neumann was creativity. Relative to eachother, as both men clearly outclassed even the average scientist creatively, but I've long thought what gave Ol' Albert the edge over Johnny was his being a violinist. Von Neumann loved music, but I only ever heard about him loving to listen, nothing about him ever playing instruments himself. Not even the bongos:

https://youtu.be/qWabhnt91Uc

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