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Sorry ‘m just listening to this fascinating conversation –been busy working in this super-cool ebook project, you know– but the scientist you were thinking of who created the so-called ‘God helmet’ was Michael Persinger. I say ‘was’ because he unfortunately passed away just this month:
https://www.dailygrail.com/2018/08/vale-michael-persinger-1945-2018/
Anyway, great stuff. I’m fascinated by the mysteries of the mind and the ‘savant’ states. Particularly when they arise spontaneously due to trauma of some kind –either like the guy who was hit in the head and became a mathematical genius (https://www.livescience.com/45349-brain-injury-turns-man-into-math-genius.html) or the people who, after being clinically dead, ‘return’ with creative abilities they didn’t have before.
PS: I’ve always suspected I may be in the ‘spectrum’ myself. I was always at the top of the class but my social skills were more than wanting. And in this world, unfortunately, ’emotional intelligence’ is considered to be more of an asset than ‘analytical’ or even ‘creative’ intelligence…
So I guess you know about this case, then:
https://www.npr.org/2016/02/22/467680296/stroke-of-genius-how-derek-amato-became-a-musical-savant
I find this stuff amazing as well. No way it should be possible, but so many things "shouldn’t" be possible. Tells you something’s wrong with our paradigm.
Exactly. Which is why we need to keep chipping away at the stone block of said paradigm, as you eloquently put it in one of the previous episodes 😉