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Savants
Islands of Genius
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Savant syndrome is a rare condition in which individuals with developmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorders, have one or more areas of expertise, ability, or brilliance - "islands of genius" - that exist in contrast with their overall limitations. In this fascinating book, Dr. Darold Treffert looks at what we know about this remarkable condition, and at new discoveries that raise interesting questions about the hidden brain potential within us all. Dr. Treffert explores the phenomena of genetic memory - instances in which individuals somehow "know" things they never learned - and sudden genius or "acquired savantism" - where a neuro-typical person unexpectedly and spectacularly develops savant-like abilities following a head injury or stroke. Showing that these phenomena point convincingly towards a reservoir of untapped potential - an inner savant capacity - within us all, he looks both at how savant skills can be nurtured, and how they can help the person who has them,
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Notes: that phrase, Islands of Genius, I happened on looking at these linguistic things that happen when we learn our Native Language as children...the Mysterions have it that aliens taught us civilization, and maybe still are...aliens as in little green men, folk from outer space, secrets revealed on rides in Enoch's chariot...much fun all that...but, my take on pre-Columbian Americans, has been that something like aliens taught them, and my whimsy has been a clan of Pythagorians, Savants, made it to the new world and spread knowledge...my evidence for this is American motifs...like the feathered serpent, others with this take note...feathered serpent is a compound motif, like a compound word...well, it is a word too, Quitzalcoatl...close reading these linguistic things, compounds, blends, reduplication, I find them in the motifs...anyway, linguistics notes our common genius to learn our native language, and notes too savants have this knack for languages in general, and much else...was Jesus a savant?...scene here of his impressing the priests with his knowledge when He was a little kid...at lunch today watched Oprah with a guest, a kid, who could do complex math in an eyeblink...youtube has lots of clips of kid geniuses...and that phrase I learned, is a book, Islands of Genius, and its spot on describing the motif making in the Americas by itenerant Savants, my whimsy!...too much...lol...
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