Traumwind - Savant for a Day

''You could call this a creativity-amplifying machine. It's a way of altering our states of mind without taking drugs like mescaline. You can make people see the raw data of the world as it is. As it is actually represented in the unconscious mind of all of us.''
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Hooked up to the machine, 40 percent of test subjects exhibited extraordinary, and newfound, mental skills.
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If neurological impairment is the cause of the autistic's disabilities, Snyder wondered, could it be the cause of their geniuslike abilities, too? By shutting down certain mental functions -- the capacity to think conceptually, categorically, contextually -- did this impairment allow other mental functions to flourish? Could brain damage, in short, actually make you brilliant?
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''on the machine,'' he says, ''you start seeing what's actually there, not what you think is there.''
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''Buried deep in all our brains are phenomenal abilities, which we lose for some reason as we develop into 'normal' conceptual creatures. But what if we could reawaken them?''
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could anyone really guess, in advance, how their lives might be affected by instant creativity, instant intelligence, instant happiness? Or by their disappearance, just as instantly, once the TMS is switched off?

from my extensive quoting one might see that I absolutly have some thoughts about this stuff... Not sure if I can/will put them to words here... [ by Martin>] [permalink] [similar entries]

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