I did not see it as harsh at all. I just wrote a fast reply as I was busy - might have seem equally harsh :) - The fine art red necks are hilarious.

The guy asking is new on Diaspora and the only thing I know about him is that he is a Dane that came to the US to study psychology and according to his tags he is now interested in deep learning and other computer stuff. Therefore this is not really about the original question you asked, but more about using it as a case for looking at it from another angle.

To me his questions was not that difficult because I know the process well. The jumping between thought and sensory. But underneath it is some very interesting and hard to grasp reality that has interested me a lot. I do not go into it here - I just keep on the surface where I actually know what happens.

I think that the boy is probably the same type of person as Mozart. The future will tell us if he will become a great musician or composer, which is not necessarily what will happen. Prodigy children are special cases that already has what other needs a lifetime accomplishing. They are not natural born super-artists, but they tend to work so much that many of them will be. Some of the artists I admire most are not talented at all, but they still gets to a place where they make great art.

Look here for example: https://steemit.com/comic/@katharsisdrill/phill-from-gchq-and-it-s-inspirations-freak-brothers