That's why I ask for references when I think something is quoted, to understand where it is coming from. Maybe the loose ends are cleared up in the complete article or book the quotes are from.
There is a lot of pseudo science out there and even more pseudo philosophy (mostly from very well respected scientists). I know a little bit about the scientific community and one thing is for sure: many well respected minds are criticized by other well respected mind for their leaps into fields they just do not have too much business tackling. Be asured that none of my critisism in this regard is in any way original. There are always much brighter people than ourselves who have thought through everything we talk about here and much more.
I hope I haven't offended you, I was only discussing the quotes you presented.
It's all from the ISCID and MEGA society. Mostly Chris Langan stuff, some rip off of Max Tegmart from the Princeton Institute for advanced studies.
Langan's stuff is kind of based off of Berkely's "proof" that we can know reality only through perception.
Either way, interesting stuff that all but a handful of people can even understand. Intelligence is really amazing. The unintelligent can't comprehend that they're not intelligent. The intelligent have a difficult time expressing their knowledge to the unintelligent. The unintelligent don't have the capabilities to grasp the extreme in abstract thought (or anything even close to it), which creates the belief that it must be false. Most likely some take off of the average person's inability to move beyond the 1 to 1 correlation of ideas (eg: Bill is tall, a building is tall, Bill is a building)
It is said that new thought is a phenomenon of the furthest SD of intelligence (IQ>175)
The problem is, there's only a handful of people with that level of intelligence....and they don't have the ability to relay that new thought to the average man's level of thinking.
Einsteing is probably as close as you can get. I've always thought that had some correlation to his seeming to have Asperger's. With Asperger's he has trouble relating to anyone, which probably left some of the elitist rhetoric out of a lot of his stuff.
An example of the opposite would be Hawking's "A Brief History of Time," which was meant to be written for the common man, but couldn't be further from that goal.