We saw a video about people who are gifted with special abilities. They have this abilities due to some accident or somehting that happened in their lifes. A man that can know what day of the week is of any day in history. This is pretty amazing. The numbers are his friends. He was diagnosed with a form of autism. He can be an example of a savant. An idiot savant is a person who is considered to be mentally handicapped but displays brilliance in a specific area. We also saw about another savant who can memmorize books. He could read a page with one eye and the other with the other eye. Another guy can play a song after hearing just once. The calendar man uses different machinery (parts of the brain) for everyday stuff, different than normal people. In general we are a left brain society, with logic and resoning. Savants, in the other hand, have a left brain that gets messed up. A girl was a great painter when she was two, but when she grew (and learned language) she couldn't paint well any more. This shows that we are creative when we are born. Also in this video we heard about a man called Tommy McHugh. He had a brain injury, and after that he felt the necessity to make paintings, he make great paintings. At the end we saw about a teacher who wants to give savant skills to a student and is using him as his guinea pig. In his experiment he is going to turn of part of his brain. A good percentage has shown that after turning of one part of the brain a test is done better than before. This is shown by about 40% percent. This University teacher will like to one day make a thinking cap, this will be pretty amazing and of great use if it is done. What all these savants can do is purely unbelievable and if someday we can get this abilities without being handicapped it will be amazing.
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