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savant,autism,synesthesia,selfaware The Boy With the Incredible Brain - Daniel Tammet

The Boy With the Incredible Brain - Daniel Tammet

posted by rembar 2 years 9 months ago • 8083 views
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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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Visual retention of data as images is the key to higher brain function.


written by Farhad2000  | 2 years 9 months ago | CH
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i have a pornagraphic memory!



written by LadyBug  | 2 years 9 months ago | CH
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Okay 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.


written by Farhad2000  | 2 years 9 months ago | CH
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Hello.

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!


written by Equivicae  | 2 years 8 months 4 weeks ago | CH
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check 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


written by michie  | 2 years 3 months 1 week ago | CH
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*brain


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Adding video to channels (Brain) - requested by jonny.


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*promote


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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 9:56am PST - promote requested by berticus.


written by siftbot  | 9 months ago | CH
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and he has had sex with 1987414391474107143 x 1987414391474107143 x 12317 x 0 women ...


written by 8266  | 9 months ago | CH
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well he is gay, so yeah. (dickhead)


written by berticus  | 9 months ago | CH
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So 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?


written by NordlichReiter  | 9 months ago | CH
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>> ^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!!!


written by rottenseed  | 9 months ago | CH
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Great 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.


written by Almanildo  | 9 months ago | CH
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Where can I get this done to my brain? I need to figure out what makes my wife tick!


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*documentaries


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