[MD] Is the intellectual level individual?

[Platt Holden]

Gene wrote:

> I can't see any logical reason for The Theory of Relativity to be any
> more individual than being hungry. It might be more Important to that
> individual, but it strikes me as the same sort of individuality.

How about more important to science and the world?

> All you've come up with here is a gut reaction to what you believe is an
> obvious question. I've always found that it's by analyzing the obvious
> questions and the answers they entail that we come to the most
> interesting ideas.
> 
> Yes, is not a satisfying response to me. Why is it any more
> individualistic?
> 
> I'm gonna go ahead and try to answer my own question.
> Because everyone gets hungry, and millions of people vote. But only He
> had that idea.

You answered your own question. I didn't elaborate because the answer 
seemed obvious. 

> However this only seems to apply if it's a New idea. Most
> of us have plenty of ideas that are totally un-original. Even ideas that
> millions of people have had must still reside on the intellectual level.
> If the Idea is new for us, even if it's an old idea, is it less
> individualistic than something unheard of?

You belittle yourself. You may not be an Einstein, but this post and 
your other posts to this site are original. All ideas are 
individualistic in that nobody else thinks or acts exactly like you, or 
me, or the man over there behind the tree. :-)

Platt