Because it's all just logic.
TLDR; People who get first in physics from oxford and yale tend to get things done and be more resillient, stable people.
Or conversely, maybe we all feel the same way as Kamarling!
Great stuff, I felt an urge to post about this topic but when nobody was replying I had lost the urge and didn't know why I had felt the urge, but all these posts have relit the flame!
The whole thing is that I don't think it is all logic, well, maybe it is, but shouldn't be. Logic is something I associate with materialism, it is the reason that QM threw a spanner in the works in the early 20th century and led to 'shut up and calculate'. Using 'logic' we can calculate 'till the cows come home, or maybe get evaporated in the nuclear blast would be more fitting.
Mediocre you kept saying my logic was at fault when I was posting my ideas about how I think things might work. Logic has very little to do with 'my thinking', in fact I'm not sure that thinking has a lot to do with my thinking! lol
Presumably Stephen Hawking used logic to come up with the idea that 'philosophy is dead'? I've heard many bright people wonder how someone as intelligent as Hawking can come up with an idea like that. Eckhart Tolle often talks about 'stillness' being the road to something divine, I believe it was the same state that Sci and David were talking about when they mentioned Ramanujan and others' knowledge from dreams or other relaxed states. So the questions arise: Where do these divine wisdoms come from? And what does it say about the answers arrived at from other means, if anything?
This comes back to the TED talk that I personally find so touching by Elizabeth Gilbert about Creativity. I believe popular TED talks such as this bypass logic and people just 'get it' without knowing why.
That's the reason why I strongly disagree with Kamarling and David about 'not being intelligent enough'. Maybe we're all a part of a potential jigsaw that could bring amazing things to this world, if we stopped focusing on Maths and Science so much. These things might have brought amazing things to us, but I feel that they have left behind vital components that are needed to 'make the light shine'. (Sorry Mediocre!;))
Music and art are now falling out of the picture entirely, with school budgets being slashed leaving money only for the mainstream chosen few, taken to it logical conclusion it appears to me that eventually we'll be left with Mathematicians and Physicists as the only truly educated people. Ken Robinson is aware of this danger and his own Ted Talk has been part of his armoury which he uses to push against the tide.
It is the very same tide that we on Skeptiko are pushing against in our own limited way, that of the materialist worldview. So no Kamarling, I am quite certain that you do not have the same 'IQ' as Hawking, but perhaps you can play the piano, or bring someone to tears with a guitar, or do the same with a painting or sculpture? To me, you are the equal of anyone. The potential is there in every single one of us, whether we end up as a suicide bomber or a concert pianist is a very interesting question...and it is down to all of us what the outcome will be.