How come there are some 2 year olds who can locate 100 and more
countries on the world map and I can’t (nor does the average populace),
and I like to think of myself as not dumb. Is it because their hard drives
in their brains or the RAMs are working at a million times mine? If that
is so, if they do not breathe fast and hard enough the more they take in,
are their brains going to go into heat up/overload and crash? 
Cyborgs stalk the earth! Why haven’t I heard about this from the newspaper!? I blame the Illuminati!
No. Humans are not computers.
Between this thread and the sheep one, I feel like I missed a memo…
There was a sheep thread?
Link please - and I must stipulate, it is not for me!
I firmly don’t believe most people are more “gifted” than others. They are just different. This is not to say there are not true geniuses, but if a two year old can memorize 100 countries he may simply like that. Another two year old can tell you other things.
I’ve talked to kids than can tell you what is underneath ever piece of furniture in the house. Or to how to walk from their bedrooms, downstairs to the ground floor to the cellar without ever touching the floor (moving from one piece of furntiture to another. I know some kids that can tell you what the world looks like through different flavours of Jell-O
Now we all think the above is pretty worthless, but to a kid, it’s important to know.
When something interests someone they are usually knowledgeable. I knew one man who knew nothing about math, yet when I pointed out that he liked to play the horses and could quote me all sorts of complex math formulas to figure out how to pick the race horses in his mind, he couldn’t understand he WAS in fact applying math to the horse races