Quote from Rearden Metal:
Sara: What did you treat him for?
Dr. Brighton: Well Michael suffered from a couple of things. One was a condition called <b>low latent inhibition.</b>
Sara: Sorry, Iâm not familiar with the term.
Dr. Brighton: Well, people who suffer from low latent inhibition see every day things just like you or I do, like this lamp for instance. But where we just process the image of a lamp, they process everything. The stem, the bulb, the bolts, even the washers inside. Their brains are more open to incoming stimuli in the surrounding environment. Other peopleâs brains â yourâs and mine â shut out the same information. We have to do it, in order to keep our sanity. If someone with a low IQ has low latent inhibition, it almost always results in mental illness. But, if someone has a high IQ, it almost always results in creative genius.