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?

[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).

[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.

[NotReady]

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


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I'm concerned about trusting people so paranoid they would rather starve to death than eat. Though Newton was a bit quirky at times as well.

I was thinking about his theorem a while back, wondering if it has applications to philosophy. I went through quite a few mental gymnastics, made more difficult because I don't know the math, and spent a lot of time contemplating Turing machines, and don't remember it all, but came out with something like:

Any philosophical system derived by a finite mind, if complete, will be inconsistent(irrational,nonrational) and any system that is rational (consistent) will be incomplete. Has to do with self-referential stuff. Since God's mind is infinite He isn't bound by the self-referential limitations (paradoxes,contradictions), and therefore His system is both complete and rational. I'm pretty sure that proves God exists but I can't prove it.

[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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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

[Bill Haywood]

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

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"We have been trained that the world is full of liars and deceit, always on the verge of striking out."

That doesn't sound like someone who sees evil cabals running huge conspiracies. I'm unclear why you sent me to this vid.

You feel emotional responses to alien ideas lead people to ridicule you? What I saw was people reacting to the plausibility of your views, not mobbing. Many individuals stayed very focused on 911 facts. Poking fun came later, after you kept dodging away from the nitty gritty. But you want to say it's that we lack emotional openness or empathy, not that pancaking buildings can reach high speed. Try concentrating on the details of the building collapse, not other people being unreceptive.