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Originally posted by Glyn
did any body see the program about the real rain man
remembers every thing he ever sees,reads or is told and is mathmaticly brilliant
turns out he is missing a vital brain structure that alows us (our subconcious) to eliminate usless information
bit more complicated than that but there you go
no offence to the chap. he is brilliant
but every ones mind is differnt |
Kim Peek is the gentleman the Rain Man was based upon, but he is far from mathematically brilliant in the way that some other persons are.
Kim's powers are of retention and recollection of material which he has read or seen. The necessary functions for mathematical queries were not part of his forte - although he could recall minute details which he had read or had relayed to him.
[Edited on 24-3-2006 by guest1]