The boy with the incredible brain

[MaCaBr3]

This docu is a couple of years old but it's just amazing. It's about a guy who has an incridible memory and can do amazing calculation in just seconds and can learn a new language in just a week. According to him he sees shapes and colours which all related to numbers and that's how he sees the answers. Apparentely he doesn't actually calculate anything, it's just appears in his mind.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3372301236664593143

 

[Ingafgrinn Macabre]

This docu is a couple of years old but it's just amazing. It's about a guy who has an incridible memory and can do amazing calculation in just seconds and can learn a new language in just a week. According to him he sees shapes and colours which all related to numbers and that's how he sees the answers. Apparentely he doesn't actually calculate anything, it's just appears in his mind.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3372301236664593143

Savants, like rainman. Think looking at your description it's been shown on discovery, or was it BBC.... dunno.
The show I saw the main person had a meeting with the dude on which the rainman was based, near the end of the show

Will check it tomorrow... beddtime now

 

[Olgaline]

is it about the chap that learned Islandic in a week and can do Pi by memory up to 25k deciamals ?

 

[Mojo]

Savants, like rainman. Think looking at your description it's been shown on discovery, or was it BBC.... dunno.
The show I saw the main person had a meeting with the dude on which the rainman was based, near the end of the show

Will check it tomorrow... beddtime now

I was thinking of that exact same program, i bet ur right.

 

[Bahumat]

Its Autism iirc. Not all cases are the same but there must be a part of the brain that makes their memory remember things for longer? or how they convert numbers into shapes/colours.

What im getting at is, imagine if we could somehow unlock that part of our brain. If society could remember far more things such as languages, or solve mathematical equasions in seconds, it'd be far greater on the whole...

 

[Congax]

That's pretty amazing

 

[Ingafgrinn Macabre]

Its Autism iirc. Not all cases are the same but there must be a part of the brain that makes their memory remember things for longer? or how they convert numbers into shapes/colours.

What im getting at is, imagine if we could somehow unlock that part of our brain. If society could remember far more things such as languages, or solve mathematical equasions in seconds, it'd be far greater on the whole...

Savantism (is that a word?) is often combined with a form of autism, however it's not thesame. You can have a savant that's not autistic, and there are plenty of autists that aren't savant.

 

[Vladamir]

Just watched this, the man the programme was based on wasn't autistic. He displayed a number of austistic characteristics, although the key one was he's quite able to socialise and form friendships and so on, which is normally a diagnosis of autism.

Interesting programme too.

 

[crispy]

I wonder if he can solve more complex problems... Like the traveling salesman problem (well if he can solve it without going through all the results and select the best), and in that case how he does it

"Given a number of cities and the costs of traveling from any city to any other city, what is the cheapest round-trip route that visits each city exactly once and then returns to the starting city?"

 

[Cozak]

Amazing show, the guy who The Rainman was based on when it said about how fast he reads and such that blew my mind.. reading the left page with his left eye and right page with his right eye at 8-10 seconds per page when it would take a normal person 3 minutes to read each page... wow..

 

[Nate]

I could do all of that if I wanted to, but I don't!

Was very amazing though how he could remember Pi to such a long number of decimal places

 

[Huntingtons]

Just watched this, the man the programme was based on wasn't autistic. He displayed a number of austistic characteristics, although the key one was he's quite able to socialise and form friendships and so on, which is normally a diagnosis of autism.

Interesting programme too.

vlad is autistic!

 

[Tasslehoff]

They say they're missing a thing in the brain, which "erases" all the knowledge we don't need. Or that's what I think I've heard