TryinToGetPaid
21-10-2006 22:11:31
I am watching the Discovery Channel, and the shows that are on are "The Real Rain man" and "The Brain Man"
The Real Rain man is about a man named
Kim Peek who the movie Rain Man was based on. He is physically unable to do anything for himself but his memory is excellent. He knows everything about everything, but has a hard time communicating with other people.
The Brain man is about a man named
Danial Tammet who can do amazing math problems in his head. He says the numbers just appear without him thinking about it. Tammet holds the European record for remembering and recounting pi, recounting it to its 22,514th digit in just over 5 hours. That is amazing.
It is amazing what the brain can do to these people. They are both
Austistic Savants This just blows my mind that someone with the same brain as me and you, can do these extra ordinary things. Daniel is just like a normal human being, unlike Kim who as I said earlier, can not take care of himself.
It is amazing to think that back in the day people like Kim and Daniel were labeled "mentally retarded". Also, Joesef Stalin and Albert Einstein were both savants.
OldManWrigley
21-10-2006 22:18:33
I watched those both, very intresting....
Amazing how the guy calculated like what day Nov. 3rd, 17AD was in 2 seconds, and the scientist or whatever couldn't do it for 18 seconds
theysayjump
21-10-2006 22:20:40
http//youtube.com/watch?v=a8YXZTlwTAU
http//youtube.com/watch?v=95L-zmIBGd4
JKirk
22-10-2006 08:02:58
Wow, both those articles on Wikipedia and the two videos TSJ posted are amazing. Did you guys read about Daniel Tammet being able to learn a language in 7 days? That's crazy.
Dave82
22-10-2006 17:38:57
[quotea42b046640="TryinToGetPaid"]Tammet holds the European record for remembering and recounting pi, recounting it to its 22,514th digit in just over 5 hours. [/quotea42b046640]
shock shock shock shock shock
TFOAF
22-10-2006 17:42:51
[quote74d5c5b6ee="JKirk"]Wow, both those articles on Wikipedia and the two videos TSJ posted are amazing. Did you guys read about Daniel Tammet being able to learn a language in 7 days? That's crazy.[/quote74d5c5b6ee]
Yea! I saw something like that on E, or A&E, or one of those channels. He learned like the hardest to learn language ever, and was able to speak it fluently like in 7 days, like he said. ^_^ shock