Read Shakespeare. Listen to Beethoven. Study Michelangelo’s Pieta. Can these be the works of mortal human beings?
What are the limits of the mind’s power? How is it tapped? Might genius exist, suppressed, in every one of us? The depth, breadth and convolutions of the human mind are endlessly astonishing.
Via Neurontic:
I’ve spent a good chunk of time reading about autistics with peculiar gifts, but I’ve never seen a savant in action. (No. Rain Man doesn’t count.) And let me tell you, it’s enough to make you wonder if “normal” intelligence is all it’s cracked up to be. According to the voiceover, after just 45 minutes of surveying Rome from a helicopter, Wiltshire was able to faithfully recreate virtually everything he saw. His completed panorama stretched across 5 and half yards of paper. Even more impressive, Steven’s masterpiece required no preliminary sketching, or “roughing out of space.” “It [was as] if the panorama already [existed] in his head, with all the proportions, all the roads, all the details.”
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