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This shows that you didn't understand what I was arguing, because you are in fact agreeing with me.
The structure of my argument was:
(1) People say that high IQ is the reason Newton invented calculus.
(2) However, high IQ is just high processing speed and copious amounts of RAM.
(3) High processing speed and copious amounts of RAM don't themselves suffice to invent calculus.
(4) Therefore, "high IQ" is not a good explanation of why Newton invented calculus.
I understood what you were saying; I just disagreed with your definition of "high IQ". Put another way: I modus tollens'd your modus ponens.
EDIT: It turns out that Quill_McGee already expressed what I was trying too, and probably better than I could have myself. So yeah--what he/she said.