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I wonder how many children in "special" education should actually be in gifted education...
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Your basic assumption that DNA is unimportant is wrong. Basic counter examples are: Reflexes. The variation in human reaction to drugs. Down syndrome and other genetic defects. It's the similarity in the basic human genome that lets most people assume we are blank slates. Generic mutation can alter an infant's reaction to their environment and people don't notice X-Ray's due to basic biology. Thus we are not blank sl…
Reflexes are not high level human behavior. They are not part of our creative mind . Reflexes are built in, but that isn't relevant.
Best book for a gifted existential crisis? "Man's search for meaning." I wish I had read it as a teenager. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning