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Originally Posted by JasonTakeshi
Capacities, for me, its the act of percieving things through our senses, and consequencialy the way we process them in our brain.
I belive that our "capacities" starts when we born, and we will use them to aquire "knownledge".
The way the "sensorial knownledge" is aquired, for me, it wont change. Its through capacities. And NOT by anything exterior to it.
Therefore, "Astronomical" capacities wouldn't change even if he actually skipped/ or w/e- that opportunities. The only consequence would be "less sensorial knownledge" - which doesnt mean less capacities.
It seems like we have some divergencies regarding the meaning of "human capacities".
Its pointless to continue, i suppose.
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Capacity is potential. Think of a bucket that has a capacity of 5 liters. The bucket starts empty or close to it. There are a limited number of opportunities to add water to that bucket - but we don`t use all the opportunities and end up with a 5 liter bucket holding only 2.5 liters... Even though the capacity is the same - the potential to hold 5 liters is there - the bucket will be holding less than even the 3 liter buckets that used all the opportunities.
Even if Astronomical were born with very high IQ, and a high "capacity" for learning... If they do not have the opportunities available to them in life to actually make USE of their potential - they will end up behind. If capacity alone controlled the outcome, there would be little use for school at all - we`d all just pick up things based on "our senses".
I wouldn`t want a doctor who had great
potential - I`d want one who actually filled their capacity (so to speak).
I knew a girl (a few years younger than me) whose name was Candy, her sister Sugar. Everyone joked that they sounded like a porn star names. They were smart, from a good family, etc... What Candy is now? An "exotic dancer". Sugar ended up on the streets.
Your name does have a very strong effect on where you end up in life.