ronald jenkees
wow, this dude reminds me of a weirder better dan deacon! timbaland is nervous.
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While brain physiology makes up the first aspect of the triad of savant syndrome, the second part involves the skill itself and the savant's obsessive relationship to it. Whether expressed as mathematical calculating, calendar ( Read more... )
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i'm definitely very interested in this so far as it's simply another way of looking at levels of consciousness. if autism or savantism is in fact a particular deficiency in signifying powers, that pretty much explodes the potential of our actual mental capabilities.
as Aldous Huxley says,
"The suggestion is that the function of the brain and nervous system and sense organs is in the main eliminative and not productive. Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe. The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful ( ... )
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