The Matrix of Genius

09 Juli 2009

What is genius - can it be defined? Where does it come from? Does genius develop from content or process? What is the difference between the modicum of human beings that history has venerated for their extraordinary intelligence and creativity, and the rest of humanity? How can genius be modeled? Where can the tools and rules for modeling genius be found? Will nature reveal her cryptotropic matrix for developing geniuses? Is genius learnable or are human beings randomly endowed with this genetic propensity at the roll of nature’s dice? Can it be explicitly taught? If we find this template can we truly influence our own design? Is it really possible to consciously guide the hand that weaves the fabric of human destiny? These are just a few of the questions that instigated the fifteen years of research and development, which have resulted in the interdisciplinary branch of science known as cognitive neurophysics.

The purpose of this paper is to advance an extension of The Standard Theory of Pattern-Entropy Dynamics that may endow humanity, if understood and seriously applied, with the “Rosetta stone” of mind—the template for the development of extraordinary human intelligence we call genius. The exploration of this area of human excellence has confounded human intellect for millennia, for even geniuses themselves seem to be unable to develop genius in those around them or even pinpoint the genesis of their own fortuitous endowment.

In this paper, we will be exploring this most elusive and respected of the human proclivities from the interdisciplinary vantage point of cognitive neurophysics. The answers to these questions do not come from psychology or neuroscience, biology or education science. Instead, we find such answers only by forming an integrated picture of what a human being is by weaving together all of the disparate disciplines that have attempted to understand the whole, by studying its parts. Then, to this picture we must add the laws of physics—our inseparable relationship with the physical world. Nature’s laws have illimitable dominion over all organizations of matter and energy great and small—human beings and human brains are no exception.