Dear Mike,
Wow, you sure have a lot to say, but then again there is a lot to say about the brain.
First, about the suppression of genius. The government's first and foremost role is to perpetuate society. This means that it must train the majority of the population to be workers, with a minority of individuals who direct the masses. If everyone was a genius, then who would work at McDonalds?
About the role of left-side functionality vs. right-side functionality. Although the brain has a general structural format for processing centers, it also has a great amount of plasticity. I was watching a show about a baby girl that had a major tumor on one side of her brain that had to be removed. The doctors feared that she would be paralyzed on one side of her body, but not long after the surgery she was seen kicking with both legs.
About mental disorders such as autism. It is my personal belief that autism is not a deficit, but merely a non-standard distribution of brain processing centers. The autistic are noted by their lack of social skills, but often have preternatural logic, artistic, etc skills. There is also another disorder (which the name escapes me), in which the individual seems highly intelligent because he has a very eloquent speach. The only problem is they are incapable of understanding simple concepts like addition. Logic has been traced to one area of the brain, whereas communcation skills have been traced to another area. It seems to make sense to me that due to the constraints of our skull, if one area is enlarged, then another area must be reduced.
About genius and crime. I think the crime of geniuses would be directly related to the goals of the individuals and the constraints placed on the individuals. This is deviant theory. If an individual values a goal, he will first try to achieve the goal via traditional means. If the individual is inhibited from achieving a goal via traditional means, then he will seek non-traditional means (which may or may not be crime, depending on what society deems acceptable behavior). The only result of genius is that more avenues of non-traditional means open up to the individual.
Finally, let us not forget the corpus collosium (the bundle of nerves that connect the two hemispheres together). Although you may be focusing on the development of the right-brain and it's role in genius, it is the synergistic interactions between the two sides that creative thoughts to have practical applications. An interesting fact is that women generally have a thicker corpus collosium, which would probably explain why they are generally better at multi-tasking.  |