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century" (according to
Time
magazine). The greater the number of concepts,
the more levels of hierarchically structured abstraction are possible, but only
some
of these capture regularity of the world and therefore have meaning. So
once there's a certain number of concepts in there, what matters most is how the
individual weaves them together. In fact, up to an IQ of 120, intelligence and cre-
ativity are correlated, but past 120 they are not (Barron 1963). My guess is that
Einstein had a tendency toward defocused attention and conceptual fluidity, and
as a result, his worldview was less a