Legato wrote:
Let me illustrate something for those that know anything about functions in mathematics. NT social skills is f(x) and Aspie social skills is g(x), where x is effort and the function's value represents returns.
f(x) = 10x
g(x) = 2x
No matter what, in both functions, as x approaches infinity, so does the value. Even though f(x) increases 5 times quicker than g(x), they both reach infinity when x reaches infinity. And infinity is infinity. Infinity squared is infinity.
In other words, we can always learn more. Part of the thing that makes brains great is that we (the homunculus, if you will) can train them. What once took time to think through now becomes instinct, gut reaction. We can train ourselves do to better, and there is never a limiting value - no horizontal asymptote. The only limit is effort, how much you choose to increase x.
Try this one:
f(x)=10x/(x+1)
g(x) = 2x/(x+1)
11 Dec 2008, 2:17 am
