Yeah but being first is part of it, no? In my mid 20s I read Karl Popper's
Conjectures and Refutations and realized I'd reached the falsification pathway to epistemology as a teenager. But was I a genius or was I just lucky to be born in this age where the soup of concepts we're bathed in makes that obvious? I think the latter. Same with Goldbach's Conjecture, I came up with an equivalent conjecture as a pre-teen.
Evidence since has shown I'm reasonably intelligent but not the Popper or Goldbach or even the Walter Bright of our times.
Humanity the organism evolves so more things become obvious to more average members. Perhaps ten year olds will see the intuitive use of monadic structures in the future.
