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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 02/24/2005 : 10:39:04
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Saw this show on the science channel yesterday profiling a guy who has very advanced savant abilities with numbers and language and suffers from only mild austistic tendencies.
First this guy ran off the first 22500 digits of Pi from memory without error, then he learned to speak icelandic fluently in a week, with good grammer. It was quite amazing and science is thrilled to have an individual with these abilities who can empathise enough to describe what is going on in his head while he thinks.
He could do huge calculations in his head but did not do them like normal folks, he had associated numbers with imigaes, sounds and textures from an early age devolping individual images in his head for the first 10000 numbers, also digits had form like all tall things were 9's and bright things are 1's and so on, so when asked for the answer to 29 to the fourth power he doesnt calculate but sees imagry in his head like walking through a landscape noting each digit.
Very neat indeed, the prospect of developing these abilities for non-savants is now on the table.
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"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Wendy
SFN Regular
USA
614 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2005 : 12:16:26 [Permalink]
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Is this the guy?
Twenty-six year old "Superbrain"...
I went looking for a link with the hope that there will be an encore presentation. Sounds like I missed a great show.
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Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
3192 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2005 : 13:06:16 [Permalink]
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"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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