This is a documentary on one extraordinary (even by savant standards) person: Daniel Tammet. Daniel exhibits, aside from the amazing intellectual capabilites associated with savantism, self-awareness of his mental processes and is a relatively high-functioning autist. This is a huge thing, since most savants cannot function or even survive in a society without plenty of support from others. Thus, Daniel receives the immense abilities of a savant, while missing many of the stereotypical drawbacks.
Thanks to Daniel's agreement to many cognitive experiments and studies, our knowledge of the human brain and its amazing feats, as well the resulting link to social and neurological problems, is expanding by orders of magnitude.
From Wikipedia: Daniel Paul Tammet (born January 31, 1979, London, England) is a British autistic savant gifted with a facility for mathematics problems, sequence memory, and natural language learning. He was born with congenital childhood epilepsy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Tammet
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Farhad2000Visual retention of data as images is the key to higher brain function.
LadyBugi have a pornagraphic memory!
Farhad2000Okay I hope this doesn't come off wrong, but a person with such intelligence and genius better do something more then be a circus gimmick to the serfs.
EquivicaeHello.
I happen to have this, and all the other extraordinay people documentaries archived on my computer. They're excellent. Email me at tranceriver@gmail.com if you're interested in them.
I've got a bunch others I'd love to share as well!
michiecheck out his book called 'Born on a Blue Day';just finished it and greatly enjoyed it.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Born-Blue-Day-Aspergers-Extraordinary/dp/0340899743
even greater insight into a savants brain
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8266says...and he has had sex with 1987414391474107143 x 1987414391474107143 x 12317 x 0 women ...
berticuswell he is gay, so yeah. (dickhead)
NordlichReiterSo if the standard human brain is not evolved enough to do what he is doing.
Then, maybe he is a genetic Mutation?
Cumulative selection, at its finest?
rottenseed>> ^DrPawn:
and he has had sex with 1987414391474107143 x 1987414391474107143 x 12317 x 0 women ...
BURN!
>> ^berticus:
well he is gay, so yeah. (dickhead)
SUPER BURN!!!
AlmanildoGreat stuff. His descriptions of the different textures of numbers reminds me of this neat little thing:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Mathemagic-Rain-Man-does-magic
Such techniques seem to be learnable. Let good ol' Derren Brown explain.
ThrobbinWhere can I get this done to my brain? I need to figure out what makes my wife tick!
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imstellar28says..."see a sound" or "hear a color"
no need to be savant, its called LSD
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