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The Astonishing Power of the Brain - Savant Syndrome, Genius, and Consciousness
A French documentary that uses savant syndrome, brain-hemorrhage testimony, and meditation neuroscience to argue that extraordinary human capacity is not exceptional — it's suppressed.
- When I lost my left hemisphere, all my stress about my existence went away, and in the absence of that, I felt this incredible awe of the beauty of what I was as a living being.
- There is that huge store of material in all of us. The question is, how can we access that without having an injury or some kind of central nervous system catastrophe?
- A prodigious savant's skills are so spectacular that if they were not disabled, we would call them a genius — and fewer than 100 such persons are living worldwide right now.
- We are a left hemisphere society. We depend on it so well that we begin to use only that well-worn pathway — to the neglect of the rest of the brain. Some people call that the tyranny of the left hemisphere.
- “The mental calculator has the same brain as us anatomically, but he uses it differently. That is the difference, and as you will see, it's essential.”