The Boy With The Incredible Brain

[GoodCallYouWin]

This guy is nuts. He can recite pi to 22,000 decimal places.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?doc...72331453380070

[Nielsio]

Yeah, he has a very visual brain.

However, he still believes in a literal god and not a metaphorical god, which means his realm of experience and abstract thought is severely hampered.

[Taraz]

Yeah, these autistic savants are crazy. It really shows you what the human brain is capable of. Check out this guy who has a photographic memory and amazing art skills:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVqRT_kCOLI

[KipBond]

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However, he still believes in a literal god and not a metaphorical god, which means his realm of experience and abstract thought is severely hampered.

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But, he's also gay, and doesn't (seem to) have a problem with it, which means he's not a Fundamentalist, at least. I would be interested in hearing his religious views -- where did you find out about them? Maybe he believes in Einstein's God?

[Bill Haywood]

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Yeah, he has a very visual brain.

However, he still believes in a literal god and not a metaphorical god, which means his realm of experience and abstract thought is severely hampered.

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But he can compensate weak parts of his brain with the strong sections. He is able to visualize abstract things that are beyond his experience, such as how an entire skyscraper could fall after removing just one of the floors.

[Nielsio]

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However, he still believes in a literal god and not a metaphorical god, which means his realm of experience and abstract thought is severely hampered.

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But, he's also gay, and doesn't (seem to) have a problem with it, which means he's not a Fundamentalist, at least. I would be interested in hearing his religious views -- where did you find out about them? Maybe he believes in Einstein's God?

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I could be mistaking him for someone else. But I remember some sicko smart person thinking he could prove god theoretically.

Yeah, I think it was someone else. I'll have to look it up.


One thing about these types of persons though: what happens in their brain is an extreme stimulae for religious belief, because of the visuality of it. Susan Greenfield describes in her series Brain Story how this stuff happenes to people who have these types of seizures (van Gogh, others).

[Nielsio]

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Yeah, he has a very visual brain.

However, he still believes in a literal god and not a metaphorical god, which means his realm of experience and abstract thought is severely hampered.

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But he can compensate weak parts of his brain with the strong sections. He is able to visualize abstract things that are beyond his experience, such as how an entire skyscraper could fall after removing just one of the floors.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HCumUgISBk

[David Sklansky]

"I could be mistaking him for someone else. But I remember some sicko smart person thinking he could prove god theoretically."

Godel. The guy Not Ready should be reading about rather than Newton.

[knowledgeORbust]

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Yeah, he has a very visual brain.

However, he still believes in a literal god and not a metaphorical god, which means his realm of experience and abstract thought is severely hampered.

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weeeaak. belief in god makes one stupider somehow? get real

[Vendal]

"I could be mistaking him for someone else. But I remember some sicko smart person thinking he could prove god theoretically."

Chris Langan?