Termyn8or
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Interesting story, and this is from one who can't find one of the three hacksaws in the house but can tell you how to turn kitchen appliances into weapons with a screwdriver.
Like they say about blind or deaf people, that the other senses become more acute, I think something like this is going on in such cases. The adaptablilty of the human brain is impressive. Take it's focus off one thing and it simply has to pay attention to something it seems. There are also people out there with physical damage to the brain, or have had a hemispherectomy due to severe epilepsy who go on to live relatively normal lives. They are literally walking around with ½ a brain, but you can't really tell. I will keep any jokery on that subject under my hat at this time. (OK I tried alright ? )
If I remember correctly and the movie was accurate, I seem to remember the Rainman slipped into a comatose state for a time, and was brought out of it with an experimental drug, which they had to stop using for one reason or another. Or am I mistaken ?
Anyway it is all facinating really. The study runs the gamut from those born practically brain dead to child prodigies. From the kid with the ukelele over in humor, who is actually using real chords at the age of what, five ? And just as young the ones who sit in front of the piano for the first time and just start playing Beethoven. "Honey, did you play any Beethoven when he was a baby ?". I wonder. Is it an extreme skill or something else ?
All I can say is there is more than meets the eye when it comes to this subject. Some can solve a Rubik's cube in record time, without difficulty, look at their average age. It has been speculated that they can do it simply because they haven't been told how hard it is supposed to be. If that is true we need to rethink a few things. Education would be the first, but that was already a given.
I think attention is a big part of it. The human mind will embrace or disregard whatever it damn well pleases, no matter what the outside influence in some cases. I have long advocated interactive, specialised education for all, but two things are in the way. First of all I think that the PTB don't want it in the first place, real leaders are made that way and that is a threat. Moreover it would be very difficult and costly to implement. It's pretty prima facie to me why home schoolers are harrassed and pummelled with regulations. Yet such students frequently excel and don't eat up the taxpayer's money.
Some say science would be progressed more quickly without religion, that we might be hundreds of years ahead sans it's influence. I tend to agree, but I am pretty sure we could say the same thing about government. However we are too overpopulated and simply not ready mentally to sustain a viable anarchy.
Almost any child can be a progeny, if you just hit the right chord (pun intended).
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