What is the highest possible idea/question man can contemplate?
And why do geniuses settle to study things less than the highest-possible idea/question?
Grothendiek spent most of his youth thinking about properties of shapes and numbers, but gave that up as he got old and started thinking about more important things. Von Neumann could multiply digits really fast, impressive, but when he came to the end of his life he was extremely afraid of death and didn't know how to cope. He spent too much time thinking about inferior ideas, instead of contemplating the highest idea. Naturally he would panic and be anxious in the face of death, huh.
Jaxson Rodriguez
What the fuck? There is no ''highest possible thing'' to think about. People just are drawn to different things, by nature or nurture I don't know.
Easton Edwards
>What is the highest possible idea/question man can contemplate?
The one you subjectively value the most.
Jack Wood
This is the most autistic thread I have ever seen on Veeky Forums
Cooper Morales
>why can't I suck my own dick?
Cooper Rodriguez
>There is no ''highest possible thing'' to think about.
Christopher Martinez
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Bentley Torres
Society typically forces people to choose paths. In a truly optimal world people would be free to study and learn anything they wanted. But then you would get lazy fucks who don't contribute anything at all.
Julian Thompson
barnett triple integrals
Jace Murphy
you don't think there exists a difference of significance/importance in scale between Von Neumann making breakthroughs in Physics versus a neckbeard arguing about which naruto character is the strongest??
