Lace-Bane wrote:
crystaltermination wrote:
I've been thinking about a supposed incident where a man apparently dived into a pool, hit his head, and emerged with the ability to play the piano in full, despite no prior knowledge. Apparently the term for someone who experiences this is to be an 'acquired savant'.
It sounds like the same situation where people who've also suffered head injuries have gone on to develop foreign accents and/or language skills without training. It makes me consider just what the brain really gets up to on a day-to-day basis, to what extent does it record trivial things, and what hidden skills we might all possess from observations we can't consciously recall.
perhaps the trauma physically breaks down barriers in thinking by damaging or dazing some part of the sense of self, and reduces the self assured insistence of thinking in specific rigid patterns. many seemingly unrelated trades provide transferable skills and potential for grand innovation to others if not to concern oneself with how such could be possible, how such trades should traditionally be done, or that such thinking itself is not orthodox.
Yes, it's incredible that physical trauma to such a delicate organ could do this, and all the while it surely must still be considered a rare form of brain damage. Reading these stories makes me sometimes wish I delved into the more medical side of science.
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