Calculus, Logic, Music and the Human Brain

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First of all I have to admit, you have got the coolest avatar, sig, and username on this forum.

Thanks

That being said, are you saying that ugly and stupid people don’t find other ugly and stupid people to mate with and pass their genes on with?

I'm not saying that ugly people do not have kids, just said it is extremely hard. Evolution doesn't take a few days. It comes from millions of years of adapting and changing and breeding. Using ugly people as an example probably wasn't my best idea I'll admit

Ok, I understand that, but did humans have the mental capacity to do things like calculus before they were invented?

I think we had to mental capacity to do them, but not the intuition or the need at the time before it was invented. Many people's main goal in the past was to simply survive and pass on their genes. The few who did think and comprehend these maths were lucky and had the time and money to do so. A regular peasant wasn't worried about the derivative of 3x²-4x-1 was. The regular peasant and workers were worried about surviving another night with no food and clothes. As the people like Newton and other mathmeticians and physicist came along, they gradually found ways to improve lives to where less people were starving and working in the fields.