The Nature of Genius
Why is it that people say genius is close to madness? Consider this graph...
This line shows a possible plot of people’s interpretation of reality. We are all deluded to a greater or lesser extent. Consider going into a supermarket to purchase a carton of orange juice. What is inside the carton? Orange juice? Probably, if that’s what it says on the carton, but this is an assumption – we don’t actually know it contains orange juice until we pour out the contents, and even then we can’t be sure the orange liquid is orange juice – until we taste it as well. And so on. On a practical level it isn’t necessary to worry too much about such levels of accurate interaction with our universe. Things often work quite well without unnecessary fuss. This is one extreme example of
