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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Savants as Exemplars

How do we know? How do we know that normal is good and abnormal is aberration? Why wouldn't a savant be someone who has been given the gift of focus on one acute area of human capability with others regressed? What are we REALLY capable of?

In light of these thoughts, Stephen Wiltshire provides a fascinating study. Stephen can (re)build Rome in a day (well, 3 days...).

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