Beautiful Minds The Einstein Effect 1/5

Synopsis
A fascinating look at the relationship between genius and autism, with particular focus on the phenomenon of savants; a small group of enigmatic talents with extraordinary mental abilities.

Savants number less than 100 worldwide. Some can work out five-digit multiplication in their heads, or recite thousands of books by heart. Others can play a piano melody after hearing it only once. Over half of savants are autistic; others develop these super human talents only after brain injury.

With scientists now able to see billions of neurons at work in the brain, experts are now investigating whether it is in fact a defect that turns a person into a genius. Could the giant minds of the past - from Newton, to Mozart, to Albert Einstein have been autistic?

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• Minds
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• Gender
• genius
• savants
• neurology
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• peek
• daniel
• tammet

[gr4nd7h3f731373]

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[befuturenow]

Why is this series called "The Einstein Effect"? That is not properly explained, and it needs to be, because if you are even remotely suggesting that myopic autistic savants are in a league with Einstein, then you are way more stupid than you look. Einstein didn't do "sums" , memorize presidents make little figures. He was an accomplished philosopher, musician, and REWROTE science in a series of singular revolutions that left an entire field of illustrious contemporaries gasping in the dust.

[MadameTicsALot17]

BTW Einstein most likely had Asperger syndrome

[MadameTicsALot17]

@befuturenow It's called the einstein effect because einstein was autistic and over half of savants ARE autistic (Einstein probably wasn't a savant but was a math genius probably because he was a visual learner (most autistics are visual learners) probably thats the connection

[longfootbuddy]

@DrMenard90 i do more than say so, i know so, and do so

[DrMenard90]

@befuturenow If you'd simply watch this full episode before commenting, they do explain it. Also, Einstein was a SHIT philosopher; there is a huge difference between recording your popular, sound-bite-friendly philosophical *musings* and actually sitting down and writing real philosophy. Einstein never wrote philosophy.

[DrMenard90]

@longfootbuddy See? It's so easy! longfootbuddy says so! Everybody is already a genius...you just have to "channel" all this information which is "given to you"...forget any details regarding how it would need to be done; unless you're already born a savant, you just need to get out there and "do it"! See? Nothing they do is special or unusual in the least!

[piloooogen]

@befuturenow Well he probably had Asperger and yes he´s one of the greatest (maybe even the greatest) genius of time

[djRezen]

@Zachdudeio2 hahahahha

[Zachdudeio2]

1:15 Shit just got real

[shawntaze360]

What if we really dumb because the result of sibling sex since the begining of human life, what if a human can fly but we stupid so we make a helicopter, and think its smart. That a be crazy

[longfootbuddy]

of course the music is already there, any true artist (and truthful one) will tell you that.. all the rest just copy from them.. this is why a young weird kid can make jazz, or a stupid fool can make beautiful sculptures.. they are only channeling what is already there.. likewise, all ideas are given to you, because they are also already there.. you merely channel them into your awareness of them, but not all of us are good channels.. most people are less connected than others