Even super-intelligent newborns probably can't handle complex conundrums. He's starting life over from scratch. That's a weird frame of mind. It's fascinating to imagine what someone at that mental point would think, but I can't imagine it. It stumps me.
What your post makes me think about is how much you're managing to extract from a storyline that stunned me by being so much less than I expected. Of course, I'm very grateful for the tapes. Anyway, your posts give me some hope that later, in a different frame of mind, I might have a good DS experience in my future, with the 1968 storyline.
I am now also experiencing two early-70s Frankenstein-ish productions... "Frankenstein: The True Story" and Gene Roddenberry's "The Questor Tapes". This is a compelling kind of subject and story. "The Questor Tapes" begins with the Michaelangelo image of the creator reaching out to touch his creation. I'm not sure any of these stories deals with all the implications, though, good though they are.