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Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Jul-10-2006 01:04:

idiot savants

anyone see 60 minutes last night? (since the death of carlton ive been enjoying the show a whole lot more). ok, thats not true at all but i thought id chuck it in there.

anywayz, they did this story on some retarded children with insane music talent. blind, previously unable to walk, yet with absolute perfect pitch and musical genius. it was crazy to see these children copy & improvise on music they only heard once a few minutes before. the bit where the kid is asked to play mozart\'s piece of music as if beethoven had written it was ridiculous. maximum respect.

never having seen a savant in action it was fvcking cool to watch.

theres hope out there for the rest of you retards then...

Posted by AnitA on Jul-10-2006 01:08:

Saw a bit of it - caught the Meth story they did.

Ewwww what horror heads!!

Psycho cracky cracky ****s!

Posted by tathi on Jul-10-2006 03:38:

Ahh damn I missed the show :/

It's incredible seeing the potential of the human mind albeit one trapped inside the body of an autistic or retard; those extremely rare cases of normal children becoming "acquired savants" after experiencing damage to the brain or central nervous system seems to suggest that these abilities lie dormant in all of our unconscious minds. It's been proven that we are all capable of remembering every moment we have ever experienced down to the most minute detail under hypnosis; the capacity for our unconscious minds to store limitless amounts of information is amazing - unfortunately our aptitude for recalling and processing this information through the subconscious and conscious proves to be the bottleneck, though hopefully after ten thousand years we'll have evolved to more properly utilise the amazing potential our brains have.

It's interesting that Savants are normally remarkably gifted musicians or prodigious mathemeticians, i'm guessing this would be due to brain abnormalities in either the creative and intuitive right brain hemisphere or the logical and linear left. However the similarities between our faculties of Music and Math far outnumber the differences: �Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.� - G. Wilhelm Leibniz

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Originally posted by AnitA
Saw a bit of it - caught the Meth story they did.

Ewwww what horror heads!!

Psycho cracky cracky ****s!

The "Meth Epidemic" doco they had on SBS two weeks back was fucking freaky!!

Posted by aL_mAc on Jul-10-2006 04:18:

i find it very sad how people out brag about how fuckin cool they are cos they use ice!!

Posted by Aesthetic on Jul-10-2006 04:29:

sometimes when im really daring al mac, i tell the people at mc donalds to give me a coke with no ice

Posted by MiSSyM on Jul-10-2006 06:50:

Re: idiot savants

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
theres hope out there for the rest of you retards then...

yeh too bad there is no hope for you left Pkthee!
haha

But yeah that little boy is pretty amazing I rekon!

LOL@Anita.......

lol@Begic you're tho ghey....hahahaha

Posted by Paulie on Jul-10-2006 08:50:

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Originally posted by tathi
The "Meth Epidemic" doco they had on SBS two weeks back was fucking freaky!!

Yeh last nites doco on meth was balls compared to it, obviously being prime time and on commercial tv they had restriction on what they could report on.