Acquired Savant Syndrome

[Craig Weiler]

Personally I think that Acquired Savant Syndrome is an argument for reincarnation.

My theory is that we suppress our past life experience to make room for new learning. Somehow, this suppression has been damaged and the previous learning is suddenly "remembered."

Also, it isn't just the mind that has memory, but also the body. As someone who works with his hands I am keenly aware of how much of what I do is possible because my hands "know" what to do. The same must be true of piano playing and other skills.

[sparky]

Originally Posted by Craig Weiler

Also, it isn't just the mind that has memory, but also the body. As someone who works with his hands I am keenly aware of how much of what I do is possible because my hands "know" what to do. The same must be true of piano playing and other skills.

Why would we think motor-memory works works in a different way?
If we learn new things with our hands we have to do these very conscious at first
Later we don't even think for a second about routine movements.
we condition the sequences of neurons firing, i see this a bit similar as making a template for a document you often need.
It would be very hard for us to do even the simplest motoric tasks if we had to very consciously think about every little aspect of the movements.

I think all memory works very similar.

[anonymous]

http://www.explorejournal.com/articl.../fulltext#sec2

Savants: What They Can Teach Us
Larry Dossey, MD (Executive Editor)
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Extrasensory Perception

Many clinicians have reported savants capable of extrasensory perception, or ESP, also called psi. In one case George, an autistic savant who could not write his name or a sentence, would know when his parents unexpectedly decided to pick him up at school (he usually rode the bus). He would tell his teacher his parents were coming, and he would be at the door when they arrived. Other parents described their autistic-savant children as capable of hearing conversations that were out of range of hearing, and the ability to pick up thoughts not spoken. In one case, the father of one savant told how his watch crystal fell out in the bathroom and was immediately replaced, an occurrence known only to him. A short time later his savant daughter related the incident to him in accurate detail. In another case, a savant girl was able to accurately predict a week before Christmas what her gift packages would contain, although she had no way of knowing and had been given no clues what her gifts might be. Another savant girl could predict when the telephone would ring and who would be calling. These and several dozen similar cases were reported by Dr Bernard Rimland in a study of 5,400 autistic children. Rimland believed he was witnessing genuine psi abilities in many of these children, commenting, “[The] statistical probability of coincidental knowledge [is] nil.”16

[Sextus70]

Originally Posted by Craig Weiler

Personally I think that Acquired Savant Syndrome is an argument for reincarnation.

My theory is that we suppress our past life experience to make room for new learning. Somehow, this suppression has been damaged and the previous learning is suddenly "remembered."

Also, it isn't just the mind that has memory, but also the body. As someone who works with his hands I am keenly aware of how much of what I do is possible because my hands "know" what to do. The same must be true of piano playing and other skills.

I think this too, but only in some cases that are not related with accidents and things like that.

For example, I've always believed that most cases of child geniuses who report to "learn" skills with an anormal speed and ease, almost like if they already knew what to do even before facing them are in fact possible cases of reincarnation where some acquired knowledge of past lives could survive and manifest.

However It's obvious that brain design and behavior also plays a big part, if not, there wouldn't been the cases of average people that after an accident in the head, developed incredible mental and intellectual abilities.

Regards!

[anonymous]

What Genius and Autism Have in Common

http://healthland.time.com/2012/07/1...ave-in-common/

A study of eight child prodigies finds that share some striking characteristics, most notably high levels of autistic traits and an overrepresentation of autism in their close family members
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The study found a few key characteristics these youngsters had in common. For one, they all had exceptional working memories — the system that holds information active in the mind, keeping it available for further processing.
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Surprisingly, however, the study found that not all of the prodigies had high IQs.
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Three of the eight prodigies had a diagnosed autism spectrum disorder themselves.
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“One possible explanation for the child prodigies’ lack of deficits is that, while the child prodigies may have a form of autism, a biological modifier suppresses many of the typical signs of autism, but leaves attention to detail — a quality that actually enhances their prodigiousness — undiminished or even enhanced,” the authors write.
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It’s possible, then, that the wiring in prodigies’ brains resembles that of an autistic person’s, with tight local connections, except without the reduction in long-distance links.
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The current study is a small one, and much more research needs to be done to elucidate the connections between highly gifted children and those with autism spectrum conditions. But the findings strongly suggest that such connections exist.