Geez. Some people will do anything to get a music gig
I had a neighbor that played piano by ear. Her mother tried to give her lessons and it was impossible...she could hear a song on the piano and only once and play it back without missing a note...her teacher gave up on her, she was unteachable...Was born with the ability...
We can DO IT, we need the freedom to just go ahead and do it without the “edumacational means testing” approval of skills.
“If you aren’t a chart success, you must musically suck” is the mantra I read from some on this board.
There is much graft in the filtering process.
Mama Cass Eliot claimed that she became a talented singer only after getting clunked on the head by a brick that fell from a building.
“Walk in” ping
I stopped for a tribal Aboriginal at about 0300 as he was walking along the road and offered him alift. He hardly spoke any English but managed to get across to me that he was going to see his sister and that he had only been to her house (and indeed any city) once before. I was sceptical as this area has lots of small streets that all look the same and it is poorly lit. It was uncanny to watch him get a feel for where he was as we drove along - he managed to take me straight there. He seemed to be operating from some sort of internal GPS system that those of us who do not live with nature in the middle of nowhere may have not delevoped.
The brain really is an amazing peice of handiwork.
Mel
The Science Channel has a series called Ingenious Minds that’s featured some acquired savants. It’s an interesting show.... Derek Amato is one of the people they covered.
http://science.discovery.com/tv/ingenious-minds/
Let’s line up all the stupid people and smack them on the head with 2x4s until they get smart.
Kurzweil is a mad scientist.
of course these abilities might be abused...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY-03vYYAjA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sRzks3eR-M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5K1fm56gI8&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XFbAINOlnY
If you make people angry...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOXpKUu6pUg
Old joke:
A guy goes to visit his American Indian friend and finds him in front of his house, lying in the street, ear to the ground.
“1995 Buick, four door, blue” the Indian murmurs.
“Good God”, the astounded friend says, “You Indians have a genius for tracking things!”
“Not quite” the Indian gasps, “the SOB ran me over a few minutes ago!”
This “ancestral memory” sounds like a variation on the old, quite disproven theory that factors impacting the phenotype can create an impression upon the genotype of sperm and egg cells.