This is a list about the smartest people who ever lived

WHERE'S RICHARD DAWKINS XD

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>Aristotle

>>2603188
what is wrong with him?

>>2603250
He's just too famous. I mean, all of those guys are famous, but Aristotle especially, which means he's a pleb tier normie answer and doesn't belong on the list.

Similarly, although Tesla isn't quite as well-known, reddit loves him, which means he's automatically disqualified and you need to gtfo back to plebbit.

Reeeeeeeeee.

>>2603250
His understanding of chemistry and physics for one

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>>2603323
>I only want irrelevant smart people on my list
Gotcha senpai

>>2603384
You ... do realize that post was sarcastic, yes?

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>>2603401
>he doesn't know any irrelevant smart people
brainlet detected

>No Wittgenstein
Come on senpai

>>2603489
sorry it was already full

Intelligence compared to their contemporaries or just intelligent? In accordance to the first; whoever discovered math, invented the spoken/written language and the first creature that formed a cognitive thought are by far the most intelligent people that have ever existed.

Just the thought that some /thing/ went from memory/instinct-bevahiour akin to that in animals to being able to perceive and understand in just the spurr of a moment is scary.

>>2603538
Probably because that's not even close to how it happened. Obviously. Those things developed over time, there wasn't one dude who invented any of them.

>>2603596
Some_one_ must have had the original idea and it was from there it all sprung to life, so to speak.
And I am overly convinced that that is how sentience began for there can hardly be anything between sentience and non-sentience.

>>2603165
who's von Neumann, Platon (Plato?), Johann Goethe...

>>2603165
No Terence Tao?

>>2603674
are you perhaps joking
>>2603687
Serre and Mochizuki are currently better than him

Might just be a bias as a musician, but I think Bach deserves a place.
>best organist in the world his lifetime
>gigantic body of work
>mastered every baroque genre
>wrote by far the most harmonically complex music ever written
>to impress people, would improvise fugues, and if he liked them, would write them down later because he remembered everything he did

>>2603874
That is autism not intelligence

>>2603874
Mozart is said to have had a better ear and was able to write down entire symphonies just from hearing them once. That's pretty fucking incredible if it's true. I tried my hand at writing classical and to transpose like an hour of music from memory after hearing it only once is some insanely genius-level memory.

That being said I don't think many would disagree that Bach had more impressive music, but in a discussion of intelligence you have to mention Mozart for his crazy musical ear from a very young age.

>>2604278
Eidetic memory isn't a particular sign of intelligence

>>2603165
>Platon

Nothing of what he said is smart

>Goethe

Go fuck yourself

>Da Vinci

Smart but overrated

Replace Plato with Euclides and Goethe with Euler and we might have a deal

>>2603165
Not meming but why would you say Kant is one of the smartest people who ever lived?

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> no Herschel

>>2604575
Euler's here

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where's Wittgenstein?

>>2604561
writing consistent god-tier music is

>>2605261
this

>>2604575
>Goethe
He actually was one of the most highly respected scientists of his time

How about reading a fucking book for once?

Neumann may not have even made the von Neumann architecture,

>>2603165
Decent list. Not sure about Tesla, Platon, Kant, or Aristotle

>>2603165
I would add Riemann and Einstein.

>>2603165
>No John Green

>>2603165
Where is Leibniz

>no me

shit list

Poincare? Maxwell? Galileo? Avicenna?

Neumann János
unironically

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>>2603165
>Plato is in the list
>Diogenes isn't

>>2607226
Maxwell is in there. Can't put everyone in

>>2607189
can't you fucking read

>>2603165
Replace Da Vinci with Al-Jazari.

>>2603165
>kant
>not descartes

???

>>2608523
>remember that time when Kant absolutely destroyed Descartes

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>>2609612
"I think therefore I am"

>"I"