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A Savant Explains His Abilities
numLocked writes "Of the few hundred autistic savants in the world, none have been able to explain their incredible mental abilities. Until now, that is. It seems that Daniel Tammet, a mathematical savant who holds the record for the most digits of pi recited from memory, is able to explain exactly how he intuits answers to mathematical problems. Tammet is quite articulate and speaks seven languages, including one he invented. The Guardian is running an article about his amazing abilities."
too bad slashdot editors can't, do I really have to click through and read the whole thing?
Yes but does he use Emacs or Vi?
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He's also a christian. Now why is it that potentially 51% of the voters in the U.S. are opposed to gays and probably more of them think that you can't be gay AND christian at the same time. It's a sad and twisted country I live in.
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Why are you not a christian anymore? You stopped believing.. what? :-) That God exists, or that He wants to save us.. or? Also, what denomination, if any, were you? Thanks
I think gay christians should do themselves a favor and become an atheist... it gets rid of their moral conundrum... and it can only improve their intelligence.
only reason the old testament ended up in the "bible"...
Same reason the Gospel didn't make it into the Bible.
http://www.gospelthomas.com/
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I'm Rick James with mod points biatch!
Did you even see Rainman before modding this post?
It was about an autistic guy... one of the things he says about 8 or 9 times (as a total non sequiter) is "I'm a very good driver."
F&%$#king moderators on crack.
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Well I for one believe that the Bible we read these days was written and translated by humans. And at that humans have a funny way of letting their influences transfer over to the texts they write. The human mind and the human anatomy is a very complex beast and we still don't have it all figured out.
We have different religions out here too, back in the inquisition days we would kill people who don't believe in "God", wait a minute we killed Indians and Aztecs too...Any how we are more tolerant now and even many religious leaders say we need to move our beliefs with time.
There you go-religion moves with time and is tailored to the needs of the time. So religion is treated and laws that get reformed when the "don't work."
On a side note for the Homosexual haters out there, Hindu and Buddhists don't see much of a problem rather a third gender. Any those religions have a documented history longer the Christianity....Hmm.....
This SIG pulled due to lack of funding. (This damn war is costing too much!)
Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, director of the Autism Research Centre (ARC) at Cambridge University, is interested in what Mänti might teach us about savant ability.
Anyone know if this guy is a relation to Ali-G ? (Sacha Baron-Cohen) who also went to cambridge.
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Then those people are not really married and would be in just as much sin as any homosexuals would be if they had sexual relations. In general, I don't expect that the representatives of the Church are going to actually *test* to make sure the couple can procreate, but it is a requirement that is vowed. Inability to procreate *is* grounds for an annulment (which is simply the declaration that there never was a valid marriage to begin with) in the universal Catholic Church, no matter what heresys may be in England or wherever you live.
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