> Alan Turing demonstrated (discovered?) that information processing (computation) is necessarily universal. That is, no matter the physical configuration of the computational medium—DNA, brain, software, etc.—the underlying principles of its operation must be identical. This, it turns out, follows from the laws of physics; if it were not the case, sentient life could not have evolved from inorganic materials and processes. The implications a inordinately far-ranging, but one of them surely is that all learning must ultimately conform to the basic laws of information processing. In the end, to "know" something amounts to the same thing for everybody. Physical skills are an obvious example: no matter what "style" we think we discern, throwing a ball works only one way, and there is only one way to learn how to do it (practice). The same goes for reading and, yes, math.
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/12/one-reason-the-learning...