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    • The Boy With The Incredible Brain

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      Take an in-depth look at this genius of a man who is able to calculate any figures by just thinking about it in his head.

      British-born Daniel Tammet is a man with extra-ordinary brains. His mental capacity has baffled many, including the skeptics. He can learn a new language fast, that, at the time this video was released, he is actually fluent in nine different languages. He can do mental calculations of up to 100 decimal points without the aid of the calculater.

      Skeptics wanted to challenge him and at one point appeared in a TV show in Iceland. For one week, Tammet was guest on the talk show. And on the final week, he seemed to have already grasped the country’s language.

      How did he do this? Scientists say that Daniel Tammel’s brain has the ability to see numbers are textures. The documentary follows his activities, where he also meet another person, Kim Peek, who is just like him when it comes to the level of geniusness. Kim Peek is actually the character who was inspired by the movie “Rain Man” with Dustin Hoffman.

      The film crew follows Tammel as he takes a series of tests and plays chess with some of the world’s best. The camera tries to show Tammel’s perspective as a person with slight austism and as someone who constantly had to go through epileptic seizures as a child.

      Get to know the man behind this inspiring story.

       

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      Published on April 19, 2008 · Filed under: Psychology

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    • JimmyTicer9

      does this guy have an I.Q. number?

    • Fresca

      Yes.

    • killjelly

      haha

    • yan

      I love this documentary one…

    • Hubert Cross

      This is a rather common ability among autistics. I saw it several times at our monthly gathering of AUTASTICS in San Francisco. If you want to see it for yourself, contact Adam Pollack at 415-648-8390 and ask him about the next gathering

    • http://www.la-artist.com Oliver

      C5, great job!

    • patrick bateman

      Sounds to good to be true. If this guys is so good with numbers and has superior intellectual capabilities to perform large mathematical computations very fast and inside his brain as well as memory which allows to learn a new language in just 7 days, what keeps him from becoming a world chess champion? He could have memorized a great deal of chess games from books and use his computational skills to win each game. Or what about analyzing stock market data? Even world of Mathematics is swarm with open unproven number problems. There are a lot different real world scenarios where he could have really demonstrated his unique abilities, but for some reason he is not taking the advantage of any of them…. I know I would have.

    • rken

      "what keeps him from becoming a world chess champion?"

      probably his priority interest in the girl next door.

    • paul boege

      It has always amazed me that in our society,that a person like danial, (with a special gift) has to capitalize financially just because of his ability to do what he does. The fact that he donates his time to science is a reward bigger than any paycheck.

    • Tigerass

      Paul you are so right,

      why don't we just lock him in a lab with nothing but numbers in front of his head all day? He doesn't need food either, we'll feed him intraveinously; cut off his legs too, we don't want him getting any funny ideas…..

    • Bendik

      His accent while speaking Icelandic was, as far as I can tell, very good (being Norwegian). Good documentary.

    • tc

      Awsome doc.

    • Marliena

      I have not watched the video yet. Howeveer I have a comment. I would assume his abilities are strictly computational and memorization based. While he seems to be like a computer in these areas, he has difficulty with theories and higher critical thinking. This is why he has not joined the ranks of of Stephen Hawking etc. I mean just because he can do calculations to 100 decimal places does not mean that he can place them in theoretical equations also. His ability as a savant is memory based not critical.

    • Johnny Stallion

      You should probably watch it before commenting. It isn’t memory based.
      Good doc, very interesting way to look at intelligence.

    • Milzy

      very nice

    • seanl

      You are a very dim man

     
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