Comment · Wed, December 26, 2012
Engraved stone dating back 30,000 years found in China. Incisions imply possibility of counting or recording?
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Maox · 6 points
No, for sure you wouldn't. The structure of their brains by the way would be exactly the same. Also, you can just barely teach people today differential calculus.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
As an instructor, I somewhat agree. However, that is also due to the same limitations I am speaking to. The people that have been exposed to math and science as children are much easier to teach than those who lacked that stimuli earlier in life. I do not teach calculus, but telecommunications. Some people definitely learn faster than others, and not all of that is due to nature.
And no, the structures of their brains would not be exactly the same. A human that has never been exposed to art and music are going to have less neural connections in the regions of the brain that are associated with those stimuli. As an adult, their brains would have much less ability to form these neural connections, and they would find it very difficult to learn these tasks or concepts. This is why I mentioned that, as a child, if they were brought to our modern age and taught in the same manner, with the same nutrition, they would probably have very similar capacity to us. Bring an adult from that same time period, and he/she would be far worse off due to the environmental factors during their childhood.