Daniel Tammet on the Mind
Daniel Tammet’s mind does not work like most. He’s an autistic savant. One of just fifty or a hundred of his rare kind in the world.
He can recite pi out to 22,000 digits, from memory. And, maybe most unusually, he can talk about how he does it. About the lightning-fast associations and textures of reality that leap out at him.
Daniel Tammet is a savant and a great communicator. And his message is this: As strange and marvelous as his mind may seem, it is not that different from yours. You can learn from the autistic savant.
This hour, On Point: A tour of the wide horizon of the human mind.
-Tom Ashbrook
http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2009/01/daniel-tammet-on-the-mind/
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