Derek Paravicini - Wish I Knew How It Felt To be Free

[ergastule]

Also, because Derek is blind, his occipital cortex processes sound. It gives him much more processing power than a sighted person who uses that part of the brain to process vision. It looks like there is a lot of parallel processing occurring in his brain.

[figgy709]

Can a savant only play piano? If we handed him a guitar would he be the same with that instrument? He is really cool!

[jdhf983y4uhu]

@figgy709 no a savant starts out with average ability, but progresses faster than a normal person as they have no other interests. things we use in normal life like what to eat, wear, socialise etc savants don't have, that part of the brain is entirely used in their savant skills. the acception being daniel tammet. there are documentaries about him if you are interested

[Criticalperspective2]

@jdhf983y4uhu I think savants have an acute sense of learning and usually start with an advantage over the average people, something which they are not responsible for, but are born with, such as absolute pitch in the case of musicians. However, I recognise that hard work also plays an important part

[4Teddybears]

Don't like how he talks like a darts referee. I wonder who he learned that from.

[tennislaurence]

@4Teddybears He's autistic...

[4Teddybears]

@tennislaurence

Oh, reeeeeeeeaaaaly?

[MrPantshirt]

Chuck Norris takes piano lessons from Derek

[Dolphidood]

10,000 hours and more... Alan thinks so.

[goldner34]

GET THIS GUY A STAGE

[mrhowe35]

Amazing as usual. God given talent.