The Boy With The Incredible Brain chronicles a journey that the UK’s Channel 5 took with Daniel Tammet, one of a handful of the world’s known savants. Tammet is distinct in that his unholy abilities don’t interfere with his social skills in the same way that many savants’ abilities do, and this means he is able to describe how he experiences his powers. Tammet’s brain has the ability to paint infinite landscapes made up of numbers, in colors, textures, lights and darks. Each number has it’s own distinct appearance in Daniel’s mind, with the numbers from 1 to 9 having the most distinct characteristics as the building blocks of mathematics. What’s fascinating to a bunch of occultists like the ones on CVLT Nation is his description of the powerful number 6 – Daniel claims that 6 is the hardest number for him to perceive, because it is almost an absence of color and movement, like a black hole. I wonder how scary it is for him to see the number 666? Channel 5 also touches on other savants, like New York’s Orlando Serrell and Salt Lake City’s Kim Peek (aka the Rain Man), who can read two pages of a book in 3 seconds – the left eye reading the left page and the right eye reading the right page, just the idea makes me hurt. But the main focus is on Tammet, who demonstrates his visual appreciation of numbers by reciting Pi up to 25,000 digits and by learning Icelandic in a week, not by memory, but by intuition. The power of the mind is amazing to put it lightly, and people like Tammet make you realize just how much is beyond our understanding. Watch The Boy With The Incredible Brain after the jump…
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