On 10 Aug 2005 11:07:51 -0700, "The Daily Excerpt" <bzbz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>[QUOTE] Tammet is calculating 377 multiplied by 795. Actually, he isn't
>"calculating": there is nothing conscious about what he is doing. He
>arrives at the answer instantly. Since his epileptic fit, he has been
>able to see numbers as shapes, colours and textures. The number two,
>for instance, is a motion, and five is a clap of thunder. "When I
>multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change
>and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental
>imagery. It's like maths without having to think."
>
>.... Last year Tammet broke the European record for recalling pi, the
>mathematical constant, to the furthest decimal point. He found it easy,
>he says, because he didn't even have to "think". To him, pi isn't an
>abstract set of digits; it's a visual story, a film projected in front
>of his eyes. He learnt the number forwards and backwards and, last
>year, spent five hours recalling it in front of an adjudicator. He
>wanted to prove a point. "I memorised pi to 22,514 decimal places, and
>I am technically disabled. I just wanted to show people that disability
>needn't get in the way."
>
>FROM: http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1409903,00.html
>
'Consciousness' is a quale on brain activity,
similar to redness is a quale on certain sensory
input. Thus 'consciousness' is as 'real' as redness.
Both are functional delusions.
On savant autism : perhaps 'being human' is a preferred(normal)
form of autism. It takes genius information transformation and
confabulation to produce and project a 'personified self'.
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Best,
Frederick Martin McNeill
Poway, California, United States of America
mmcneill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
of the week :
"Your neocortex is reading this book."
-"On Intelligence"-Jeff Hawkins (1957-)
:-))))Snort!)
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