Who hates being a savant?

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what? who says being a savant comes without struggle or triumph? The things that one is not good at bring constant trouble in her/his daily life. :(
it doesn't mean that you're good at everything, it just means that there is a dramatic contrast between what you are good at, and what you aren't. A gift and a curse, so to speak. That is, in my thinking, the key difference between savant and genius.

you know the answer to ANY scientific question.

I find that hard to believe, even for a Savant.

If you could answer the following question, you could be famous.

Is it possible for people to have an account of consciousness on purely physical grounds? If so, what is the argument for this?

Is it possible for a human being to completely comprehend our own physical composition? ie: is there anything in principle which forbids an object, even a conscious one, completely comprehending its own working?

by the way i am not doubting that a savant could answer the above questions, i think someone could.

einstein probably had autism and savant like ability in some areas.

the person who can answer the above conclusively, that discovery is a big as one by Godel or Einstein or Cantor or someone like that.

it's "C" :D

when in doubt, go with "C" :D

hmm, God could :D

maybe he's an Autistic Savant ! !:D

One wonders where in this discussion potential became certianty.
I never said "I know everything". I did say, however, that when I do bend my will to a particular task, said task doesn't hold out for long. More than that; I accomplish what I can almost entirely sub-conscously.
My problem is where is the challenge for me.

Savant... Savant... No... There's no specific arena of thought I was born into... Unless we're counting patience. I remember all of my childhood years being spent in contemplation of same shape or rule such that I had been exhibiting a "reductionist" tendency to figure the large from the array of smalls.... Would that be considered mathematic? I'm great at catching onto mathematic concepts, and have taught myself entirely (and am still continuing to) everything relating to this "big from small". So as a consequence, I suppose, I am an excellent musician, a decent drawer (I don't have much physical patience with elaborate penciled details... go figure.), a logician, a "social worker" (human problems relating to others are easy given honest contexts, it's only their relation to me that I become befuddled about), writer, can justify anything, etc.. And, yes, things seem way too easy at times, which makes me believe I MUST be doing something wrong, or how could it be so simple? I'm afraid I still (at times) cling to the "complex" version of the discovered world that people have, just to give me a sense of accomplishment. I've stopped myself entirely from being intellectually able before because I thought if I felt the complexity of a subject then I would deserve to have learned it...

So Psycho_Jimmy;

You have resolved the schism between relativity and quantum mechanics? Who or what is "God"? What of metaphisics? What is the probability of an asteroid hitting the earth in my lifetime? What is the cure for all the worlds diseases? etc., etc., etc.? The list of questions is infinite.

Sadly, I am but a very slow "genius". I much envy your savantism. I share your gift of thought, but for me, it is but a learned process. I do have a near "photographic" memory, but for me, I must reason through all possabilities and this takes time. This is one reason social issues are a problem for me. There are just too many possabilities, and no correct answers, or more accurately, no way to discern exactly if your conclusions are correct. Inexactitude drives me nuts.

Serriously Jimmy, the avenues for your gifts are limmitless, your level of interest is at question.

Regards,

NOBS, that's what I said. It is my interest in question.
Because these things are of little challenge; they don't interest me.
Would you rather climb everest or the little hill outside your house?
I'm not saying - I never did say - I'm doing nothing, I am in fact researching and developing, using my talents to my advantage, but I'm still looking for the real challenge.
As for quantam physics, the god problem?
Well, what do you think I'm spending my time on?

mmmm, I hate it sometimes, because people keep trying to do things to make me seem dumber than I am. :S It's annoying. Like I care if they don't think I'm a savant or not? I think that's my major life problem: I'm completely indifferent to what people think of me.