The Boy With The Incredible Brain

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Heres a documentary about some guy who supposedly has some form of high functioning autism and is pretty much a human calculator
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... ible+brain
He can also learn a new language in a matter of weeks. High functioning autism is a small price to pay for a mental ability like that in my opinion.

I beg to differ. However wonderful his mental abilities might be (which I won't deny), the first of them is of limited use anyway in today's world (due to electronic calculators, etc.), while the second means little without the social skills to speak or write those languages and to understand non-formal linguistic subtleties. It is one h*ck of a compensation, however, that's for sure.

If only life were that simple! Skills like that aren't valued in the real world

All I can say is wow. I wish I had those kind of skills, I'm just average at maths and calculations, and it's taking me more than 2 years just to learn Spanish. I could really use his brain.

When this is all said and done (and I don't expect it will be for some time), I think it's all going to revolve around human sensory perception of/through extra-dimensional spacetime. He describes perceiving numbers and words in terms of shape and texture, as though they were tangible objects. Probably because they are.

Haha yeah same here. Been learning Spanish and French for at least a year now and I still can't have a conversation in either of the languages. I think through hypnosis you can alter your mind to make it more susceptible to new information. There are all sorts of techniques to accelerate learning such as NLP and mind mapping.

I think your onto something there. Some people when they take acid perceive the whole universe as a symphony of numbers. Its a possibility that the world is actually a programmed matrix type thing. Substances like DMT and Ayahuasca give profound insight into the nature of reality. Some speculate that this thing we call the physical world is actually composed of visible sound which we perceive to be solid because it vibrates at a certain frequency.

^I have had this experience with both potent MJ and with Psilocybin 'shrooms - experiencing music as a sort of three-dimensional holographic sculpture. ^

But then I have also experienced the essence of a particular sonic creation as a muse, an actual conscious, communicable, dancing energy entity with its own intelligence and personality, that I could then express visually in a painting.

Good times.