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- asdfasdf, on 10/12/2007, -4/+77For the rest of us, there's LSD.
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd.shtml - Providence, on 11/12/2007, -0/+60Forget numbers dude. The guy who they showed in the second half was absolutely amazing.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+58@junkmail02: get a life you piece of junk
- inactive, on 11/05/2007, -5/+42Daniel Tammet > *
He is more valuable to mankind than Kim Peek because of his ability to explain to us how he is tapped into this special "super-human" ability. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27Full TV segment torrent:
http://www.bitenova.nl/download.php?id=24d845904e3ab451ba9c574f860e47c3419b53b1
If that link doesn't work, go here:
http://www.bitenova.nl/tt/gq4wf
Currently only 2 seeders.. but that will change as long as some of you guys seed when it's done downloading.
*NOT MY UPLOAD* So I haven't checked quality or anything. Says its a TV Rip, so it should be perfectly watchable. - tamoneya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26why doesn't he get on some game show and win forever
- tito13kfm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Both Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton were believed to have suffered from a mild form of Autism (Asperger's Syndrome). It's amazing that the people we label as "retarded" and give up on, or send to mental institutions, are truly some of the worlds most gifted and brilliant.
One of my coworkers children has a severe form of autism that makes it impossible for him to communicate with others. He can not form words, yet at the age of 6 can follow complex instructions perfectly, solve sudoku puzzles, paint amazing pictures, and a multitude of other things I could only dream of accomplishing.
edit: Does anybody know the title of this documentary? I would love to catch it when it reruns or possibly download the entire thing. - mflux, on 11/03/2007, -1/+22Yep.. Kim Peek always steals the show.
- asdfasdf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20"see i dont get that, wrong article, wtf dude, you had to type that out. did you submit a comment on the wrong one, if so, where is it, im confused."
He submitted the comment and then he hit update and replaced the original comment with what you see now. By the way, you replied to the wrong guy. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+23really great minds, however i wouldn't want one myself
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20Your comment is buried because you are full of crap.
- Linkage155, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11It's okay buddy, you can cry, let the pain out.
- jcims, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Maybe it has something to do with the fact that if you aren't already logged in, clicking reply sends you to the login page (where you presumably log in), and then to the last comments page you opened, rather than the one you are trying to reply to.
It happened to me just now. - Damovisa, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17"I saw it on TV here in NZ like 2 years ago."
They have TV in NZ now? - Hellman109, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I would like to see anyone recite Pi to 20,000 decimals.
What they do do regularly we *can* do, but not at that speed, not at that accuracy and not to that level.
IE I *could* remember Pi to 20,000 places, but it would take possibly years to master, these guys can do it after reading it once.
I remember watching a video of a girl ~10 years old with musical savants, she could hear a syphony, then replay EVERY instrument on a sythisising keyboard to something like 99% accuracy. This isnt 4 instruments for 10 seconds, this is an entire orchestra and symphony.
From what I know about it all, their minds are really focused. Most of us can do most things OK, but these guys can do certain tasks with extreme speed and precision.
As someone else said above, the main guy in the video still has all his social skills which is quite odd, and the fact that he can explain what he experiences is a great thing for researching the syndrome. - neutrascrub, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13he's not a boy i think he's 24 now? or 29? either way he's no boy
- asdfasdf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11"really great minds, however i wouldn't want one myself"
I thought about this a lot also when I saw this video, as well as the other two of the guy who can draw an entire city after seeing it once and the guy who can do huge calculations in his head. Very interesting though. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11This video made me feel stupid, as I sit here doing my school work. Now I'll never be successful.
:( - Nearoschyth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Yesterday, if I remember. And I damned well should seeing as how I managed to watch the shows for four hours.
- Reziarfg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Irony at its finest.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I posted a link to the torrent near the top of the comments. (replied to first post)
- dustko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"You don't have to be disabled to be special, because everyone is special"
-- Kim Peek. (from the clip)
I think the lesson here isn't to try to "learn" these guy's talent, but to discover what is unique about the way you see the world, and further that. Beyond the structure of modern education, there's much more inside you that you can tune into. - Nearoschyth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@tehpoutine
Though I agree to some extent with the latter part of your comment, saying that the calculations for days are easy is just wrong: in the show before it ("The Real Rainman" which focused on Mr. Peek) he was challenged by an actual mathematician with a calculator and a pad of paper--Kim got the right answer in 2 seconds while it took the mathematician 21. Needless to say, so-called calendar calculations are not as easy as you seem to think. - fjacky66, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14For a sec i thought thay were going to make out.
- mrsmalkav, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7not only is it amazing because of the autism, but you can't ignore the synesthaesia, which is incredible in itself:
http://web.mit.edu/synesthesia/www/
http://www.mixsig.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia - harris2004, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7omg...the 2nd guy is just...unbelievable..
- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKk96kOAnLg&mode=related&search=
They interview Simon Baron-Cohen, and I know I'm not the only one that can't see sashca's brother saying anything other than "Yeaas... E ees best savant in all of kasakhstan!" - kozie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yeah, that is pretty stupid. Should get fixed.
Probably when they get their new recruit supacoda. Then we'll be forwarded to the correct page to comment.... - ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6My Dad met him, he knew all about his business and area code and what famous people were from were we lived...
The governement should (not) put him in a rooma nd play all the wiretapping tapes at once, that would find ya some terrorists. - spudnic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Remeber watching this when it was originally on in the UK not so long ago
Interesting thing about the first guy is that he still has social skills, alongside his abilities
It didn't show it in this clip, but at the end of the show he recited pi to over 20 000 places with people checking it as he went - StarManta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Didn't you see the part about New York? He mentioned that the skyscrapers all looked like nines to him.
When thousands of numbers are associated with thousands of audio/visual stimuli, you're bound to see the world almost as a math textbook. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Probably because they wouldn't let him on? The whole point of game shows is to invite stupid people who most of the time make fools of themselves and in some rare cases actually win the prize.
- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The synaesthetic aspect of it reminded me a lot of experiences I (and perhaps you) had as a child.
I remember concepts, objects, ideas, letters, numbers having cohesive sensory and emotional contexts. Not like "43 is like something huge, soft and suffocating", but "43 *is* huge, soft and suffocating".
It's almost as if you work your way out of this experience because it is so overwhelming and scary to experience the world in this way. I feel as though the brain's compartmentalising is something that was learned, rather than in built. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Too bad the clip was cut short...
- cjmovie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If you looked at the full info on him they've shown on the science and discovery channel, he can also (and did) learn a new language in a week. And, of all languages, icelandic.....
- StarManta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Useless in practical use, maybe, but his ability to describe his sensations is invaluable to brain researchers.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Something old on digg? never...
- majoogybobber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Tammet
- Lazrius, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9I saw it on the Discovery Channel yesterday, astounding!
- Dirtynoodle111, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I love this kind of stuff. I have seen that episode 3 times. It was on Saturday night and after wards there was a show with numerous savants.
Kim Peak by far is the greatest savant. He has no corpus callosum, which connects the hemispheres of the brain. This is how he can read 2 pages at one time. He reads the left page with his left eye and the right page with his right eye.
Savants have a damaged cerebellum which for some reason lets them have so much creativity and makes them so amazing at specific subject.
There is a doctor in Australia that is researching into and almost found out how to temporarily made normal people savants. The tests he has ran thus far have improved somes creativity and memory for a short period of time, up to 1 hour. - Auscifer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Savants" I watched it on Discovery last night.
- jmnugent, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5There is actually alot more going on here than "elementary math" as you so crudely put it. People with savant/autism/synesthesia type conditions absorb and process information in very different ways than "normal" humans. Even though we like to think we know alot about how the brain works,..its a very complex organ and relatively speaking we know very little. The father in the video made a very crucial point when he said that it was first recommended that they just confine Kim Peek to a Psych Ward because he would never learn anything---but they chose not to and cultured/nurtured him and he became very famous. From a neurological point of view, its very important for us to engage and study people with these abilities so we can make further discoveries about how the brain works.
On a side note.. I've have borderline synethesic experiences on occasion,.. and after experiencing something like that (if even for only a second), you will forever be changed. Its like seeing the world on a small black and white TV with "mono" sound and for 15 seconds someone changes it to full color HDTV 65inches... Its amazing and overload and just will leave you utterly speechless. - StephenChow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Cool, I was watching this on the Science channel about a month ago. "Brainman" I think it was called, good stuff.
- macewan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Why digg ecable down? My step-daughter says each number has a color and taste while objects feel a certain way. Such as chicken - it is prickly.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Is it just me or did he sound like Salad Fingers? In fact, the way he talks kinda reminds me of it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Everyone has it to some degree.
I remember on QI they were talking about a music composer or conductor. As a child he thought they would turn the lights down at shows so the audience could see the colours coming from the orchestra... Then when he was older and doing his job he would tell orchestras to "play it more blue" even though nobody had a clue what the ***** he was talking about. - Barbrady, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This show was on Discovery channel last night. I've seen it before but it was so interesting I watched it again. The brain is truly a wonder.
- MusicPirate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Please this guy learned Icelandic in two weeks! he's amazing.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4@jwyles
Tammet is the epitomy of human potential as to this point. I won't go into detail, as there's plenty of information to explain his capabilities... I think he stands as a great symbol of human potential. - lane.montgomery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think in both methods. Usually when I interact with other people I have to think in language, otherwise I won't be able to effectively communicate my ideas. But for some reason, typing is much easier. It is much easier for me to consider my ideas and let my hands just automatically push out what it is that I want to convey.
But I have found that having to think in this way makes it easier to learn another language. I'm not great at it, but I picked up German pretty quickly by forcing myself to express ideas only in German. It is the same as talking with somebody in English, but I have a more limited vocabulary. The principle behind it is close to the immersion technique where you learn the language by being forced to speak only that language. Eventually it causes you to begin to think in that language and seek out new vocabulary to express your thoughts. This just bypasses that once you get the grammar down, then you start grabbing for more and more vocabulary like a child. -
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