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Genius Phenomenon
Today’s topic of Blind Variation and Acquired Savant Syndrome is a bit complex, so my apologies in advance if I struggle with it a bit. There is an issue that many consider a mystery. Science has not yet uncovered an adequate explanation for it. I myself have even given some council to people who suffer…
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Fluid Intelligence
So, there is another theory that is also gaining ground, and my own experience supports as well. It’s backed up by FMRI research also, that motor function and perception are intimately linked to the point that what we consider to be conscious thought is really rather peripheral. You mean, peripheral in a hardware sense? Peripheral…
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Making Intelligible Sense
My area of special talent is “language”, but I’m not a polyglot, not multilingual or even bilingual. I use the language function of my brain to piece together the various elements of my sense perceptions. Vision, as it occurs, is actually not localized in any one point in the brain. Different parts recognize different elements…
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Seeing Patterns
They describe savants as geniuses for the same reason high IQ individuals are described as geniuses. I think where the savant is impaired is the second part of the genius process, selective retention. They struggle to single out some images or ideas or bits of information from others, whereas the normal genius does this more…
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Set of Languages to Mirror Mindset
So we actually have a set of “languages” that mirror the mindset I am describing. The set of languages are the worlds systems of divination, the trinary code of the i-ching, the holistic pictographs of the runes and other such systems. The rhythm and pattern and color based systems of Africa. These have all taken…
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Selective Sensory Satiation
An example of the selective sensory satiation method. What’s a typical problem reduced to one word? Fear? Fear. Say the word fear until you can’t stand saying it any more, then soon after try to think about something that you are afraid of. You may find that rather than seeming frightening, it just seems weird.…
Category: Savant
Our subconscious minds have always assembled the world in a way that tends to defy normal rational thought, but it isn’t less real or factual for its complexity or abstraction. What we call genius is someone going beyond domain specific knowledge and seeing patterns in what we might call the metaphysical fabric of the world.
If we eased up the rationalist bias and permitted a fuller use of our innate faculties, genius could become commonplace.
“When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.” Jonathan Swift (Irish Author and Satirist of prose, 1667-1745)