Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Equipped Vs Disadvantaged

When I read of Karen Wynn's work on infant cognition in Embracing the wide sky, it made me wonder what use is it gonna be knowing if infants can sort of count at that early an age. Other than the joy of finding and understanding.
Reading of all the wrong stuff growing in his head unbeknownst to Max Truex when he was alive and fighting Parkinson's and Jesse Gelsinger led into the cave of death without warning, I wonder if all the world's acquisition of knowledge is to solve some mutated cases, if experts can only chew on abnormalities, what happens to the normal lot? Or are the extreme cases many enough to keep the experts busy? How about lesser experts for finding solution to singularities, while greater experts work at lifting the whole curve up?