Brain Man: The Boy With The Incredible Brain (Superhuman Documentary) | Real Stories

It's not until the last moment that those sparks tell me what the hell they're up to. I had never met anyone like that. He absolutely blew me away. For scientists, this man is a gold mine, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. This could be the axis that generates a new field of research. Why is everyone so excited like geniuses? Not even Daniel Tammet has said that since he was four years old. He has been able to do enormous mental calculations. In August 2002 we passed by here armed with a calculator. And you can't see this calculator I have here. Can?

First we asked Daniel to multiply 37 by himself four times, okay, okay, five to the power 4 um 1 1 million, yeah. Awesome Just to make sure people say well, maybe You just know some of these by heart. I just choose another one below. I asked them to divide 13 by 97 Low point one three four zero two zero six That's as far as my calculator goes. Go buddy one eight five eight five six seven You stay with me to stop how many points can you get? million At this point we borrowed a computer that gave us the answer to 32 decimal places.

Well, no point one three four zero two zero six one eight five five six seven As you continued, were all the numbers correct? And it even surpassed the computer by six three nine one seven five two five you have reached the end of computers all 100% Incredible when you point at the table and make shapes with your fingers what is happening? And I'm seeing the numbers, but I don't see Right I'm seeing images, shapes and patterns Almost like a square that the texture of the order falls Waves almost that's something reflective It's someone who can look almost in cursive and Ilana was a tough clown a little like a flash It sounds absurd But if it is true it destroys scientific theory Daniels Brain seems to be doing something almost magical he seems to be doing mathematics without him having to think As if this were not enough Daniel is also a magician with words For Katya Katya Delicious meniscus velvety And he knows nine languages ​​and says he could learn to speak in just a week How can Daniel make such enormous calculations?

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ly possible to learn the language in just seven days? I am currently self-employed. The tutor has agreed to be evaluated by scientists and will also find out. Without warning, we'll give you a week to master a totally new language before going live on national television. Kamala, know me too dirty. But our journey begins in Oxford in March. 2004 Daniel took us by surprise with a dazzling memory trick: the ambition is to remember up to 22,500 decimal places and recite it live with a vigil that he will verify and obviously ensure that the recitation is compiled from start to finish.

Pi is the circumference of a circle divided by its diameter It is a number without a pattern that seems to be in food Daniel says he could spell the first 22,500 decimals without error 1 times 12 five nine two six five five eight two zero nine seven five two three six four eight zero eight eight one two five nine two five four six dot zero zero zero six Nine Five five seven two hours later and Daniel is barely halfway there Absolutely amazing, it's beautiful to hear flower numbers. It is beautiful to see the concentration It is always surprising to be in front of one of the extraordinary people in the world Three nine nine five two zero six one four It is almost religious It is a silent recitation of numbers Smash Marazzi five six seven zero nine one one zero five one seven two one zero two eight seven four eight five nine after five hours and nine minutes Daniel approaches the finish line his recovery has been perfect please finished yes Is the new and shiny amazing?

Brilliant, yes. But does this mean that Daniel could also have learned by heart? thousands of different calculations, or does he have some strange power to see the answers in his head? His childhood holds a dramatic clue One of nine raised in east London Daniel claims he has been able to do massive calculations since he was just four I had a fairly severe seizure when I was a very young child, a series of seizures and a diagnosis of epilepsy was made his childhood fit having changed something in his

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ly from that moment that I began to see images in my mind that began to form intuitively.

Daniel also began to notice patterns within the numbers. Cases like this are extremely rare, but there are others who have also suffered a

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injury only to emerge with a surprising and often similar talent. Orlando was only 10 years old when he received his. Hit a friend playing baseball. I was a hitter and ran first base. They passed the ball and the ball hit my left side. It was a hard hit right in this area, right up there, and I was lying on the ground. I didn't go to the hospital. To his surprise, Ball does not receive treatment or anything and soon discovered that he could name the day of the week and remember the weather for any date since his accident.

Latinate number 17 is a Sunday with sun and clear skies on June 3. 1985 was a Monday It was hot March 28, 1990 a sunny Wednesday second Symmetries next time she was in a winton so much money for miles a cloudy Sunday, I can't explain it, he appears right in my head Somehow, the circuit in his The brain is calculating calendar dates. What part of my brain is dark? I don't know Both Orlando and Daniel seem to possess special powers of perception, as well as enhanced memory. There are only a handful of such people in the entire world, and science knows them as sages.

The concept was popularized by the hit film Rain Man, where actor Dustin Hoffman plays the role of a brilliantly gifted misfit. Like Rain Man, most Sages lack normal social skills, often because they are autistic. In fact, the link to autism is so strong that we wonder if it could be a factor in Daniel's abilities. Cambridge neuroscientist Simon Baron-Cohen, an autism expert, will be doing careful research. Assessment Autism is a spectrum of medical conditions where people have great difficulty forming social relationships and putting themselves in other people's shoes to imagine other people's thoughts and feelings, but it is also where the individual develops very strong narrow interest obsessions. and he likes to do things in a very repetitive way.

So it's a mix of ability and disability. Daniel, 25, seems to still have a lot of ability, without any obvious disabilities. Today he is joined by his mother, who will help him rebuild Daniel's turtle along with his other children. Or any other thing. From them, it turns out that their memories of him are still vivid. If you had Daniel's early childhood, you would never have another child because of the constant crying. Until now almost Tori's age was very difficult. He just cried constantly. We even got to swing him on a blanket. His bed would be at one end of the bench, I would do it, and we resorted to that out of desperation. do you like what?

Yes, what time? Do you like it a little repetitive? Yeah? Yes, it seemed to him that repetition was kind of a classic autistic trait, if you remember the days when he was in elementary school and the teachers weren't worried about him. That they talked about him as if he were different in some way? Do you know what would happen during recess? he thinks about the cornerstone, he remembers counting stones and there was also a set called hopscotch. Yes, then he would count the numbers above. This was what interested me. It's what I would do and nothing more about I know you didn't fit in that well.

I remember you walking around the playground and looking at the trees. I walked around the trees and looked at the leaves as I learned and the leaves in the swamp. There seems to be complexity in the shapes, and yes, textures that remind me of You, Embers, right? Numbers for me have always been the most real thing to me. Since I was five years old, I have almost looked through numbers. I mean my legs, the way I've seen the world, allow me to tell things forever. You look at something and it says it looks like 131 and it looks like 52 and you always think that's how everyone else counts, you know this is a normal thing.

What he took most pleasure in was simply taking his math books home and lying. alone on the floor of his room Going as far as he could with numerical problems and simply understanding numbers, something much more comfortable in a world of numbers than people. Daniel's obsession with mathematics is at least part of the explanation phase. Special ability with numbers. The things he always felt like we were his friends because I was so different Mm-Hmm the kids who would be bullies didn't know what to do with me, you know, they didn't know how to teach me, so they just let me pretty much be the majority.

Daniel is autistic, but he has also acquired enough social skills to meet the criterion that is really missing. What justifies a diagnosis is that his symptoms do not really interfere with his life currently. For some reason, he has managed to adapt to our world. Daniel's lucky, rare abilities like his usually come with severe mental disability as part of the price. Dane, Bertino is a wise man, very different from him. The only thing his gift is not is mathematics. We knew at two-thirty that Dane wasn't talking, but instead, he was simply expressing himself through art. He drew day and night.

Since he was a small child, Dane has been able to draw with extraordinary precision. But his talent has always had the other side. His Chinese language and social skills remain childish even as his art becomes richer. He really pays attention to the little new details, but he would put in the emotion. He loves to draw in the sand. And he likes to watch the waves come in and take her away. And then he draws something else because he draws very fast, that's why he likes it. see things change so he can do something new How does this extraordinary boy see the world?

It would be fascinating if he could tell us what makes Daniel different from the Seven like Dane and so extremely valuable to science? Is that what he can describe? What happens inside the head spends numbers in a very visual way using colors texture shapes shapes sequences of numbers form landscapes in my mind It just happens. It's like having a full dimension One for very bright, very bright, shiny numbers. It's almost like someone shines a light in my face, you know today? It is a very interesting experience. Number two is like a movement from right to left, like a drifting movement.

Five is like the sound of thunder or the sound of a wave against The rock Six is ​​very small. It's actually the number that's hardest to experience in any kind of meaningful visual way, so it's often the absence of something. It's like a whole war or an abyss or like a black hole. The number nine is the largest number. He is very tall, it can be intimidating. Daniel says that he sees each number up to ten thousand as a different shape or image. Until recently, many researchers would have dismissed this as idle talk. Jumbo? But now there is a solid scientific explanation.

Different parts of our brain are specialized for different tasks, like juggling numbers, for example, or seeing shapes. If cross-activation occurs between areas that are normally separate, things can get very mixed up. You might hear a sound and see a color Or think about a number and feel an emotion Scientists call this strange phenomenon synesthesia Duncan, less of Julian Ashes and a researcher at the University of Cambridge, synesthesia, but you're surprised by how peculiar it is. For example, I see what could almost be colored flames, a kind of fluid, flickering movement. But Daniel sees very specific forms.

Which is quite unusual - the total number increases? Julian believes that Daniel's complex images are the key to his gigantic memory. When he remembers a twenty-two thousand five hundred digit number, what he does is mentally move through a synesthetic landscape, ineffectively reading the numbers in the landscape. But are Daniel's numbers the shapes too? Key to his mathematical ability. To find out more, we will send him to the San Diego brain study center in California, where he will be questioned by skeptical scientists. First, he will travel all over the United States testing some of his mental powers.

Daniel finds himself in New York, but not as we know it. For someone who reads numbers in everything, the city gives him a strange vibe. Being in New York. We have all these huge skyscrapers. It's intimidating for me and over time. I had this feeling and being surrounded by the nine number nine is all around me. Can it be a great experience? Seeing objects as numbers, something you've grown up with, can be a little distracting, but it's also something you can use to your advantage. Daniel will meet the chess scammers, but he won't play chess instead.

He proposed a memory game, he wants five minutes to memorize a board with 26 randomly placed pieces and offers dollars for each mistake he makes. It's an offer they can't refuse. We have to imagine that he was on a chess board by the sequence of numbers, and then he was experiencing the numbers asimages Time is up and the heat is on like there Yes C6 d 5 they examine Daniel's positions, they have tried to find fault because they pretty much nailed it. I think there was a piece. I didn't put it on the board. It's pretty cool that Fuller is a chess nine player now with the hustle.

Do you mind if you remove the pieces and test one of you two? Are you good enough, Jasper? Well, like I said, I'm pretty impressed with you guys. I don't know if I can tap with one of you. My friend would like to do it. But I don't know if I can, honestly, we can give them whatever they want. a lot We can give you a few extra minutes if you really want to study. It's okay, it's okay. The other guided chess scammer. Hats off to him when he was up for it, right? Actually, he personally impressed me.

He did it better than he thought. He does it. I think he made my mistakes. To me, that's

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. Ooh, a piece you remembered, you remembered in the rapids. If he is not experiencing the pieces in any distinctive way, what about yet? He is capable of doing that. He shows that war memory is really good. If you talk about memory as one man, who is in his own league? He is the most famous Savant in the world and Daniel's next stop on his route to California. Daniel's next stop is the one where he has been savoring an encounter with the real rain man.

I can't wait to meet Kim Peek because she's supposed to be amazing. He was the guy that The Main Man was based on. This is really exciting for me because it's the first time I've met someone else that I have this bond with. Daniel heads to Salt Lake City and his father heads to a waiting room. Pleased to meet you. Let's walk here. We can have a line and head to a quiet place. But Daniel may discover more about Kim. Great memory time. With total photographic memory, he remembers everything he has read. He can tell you all the cities in the United States, their highways and their area codes. their zip codes and their television stations in their counties And when state history of any country was made all the rulers when they served the Presidents of this country when their wives were born their families all the achievements of NASA So when they went up when they came down what they are doing, they could talk to you about the Bible.

He can quote Scripture. He can tell you anything if you want to ask. He seems to read everything he reads. He kept it for nine months. Neuropsychiatry said that he said that a severely mentally retarded person will never be able to learn. You should put it in an institution. Forget him. But Kim was reading encyclopedias at age four and had finished the high school curriculum goodbye pain I'm going to go and cheyenne do you know how fast she can say she reads a page that you and I would read and in about three minutes it takes you? about seconds He reads the left pages, the left eye, the right page the right eye, and about 98 percent comes back this way.

Keep in mind my date of birth is January 31, 1979, wasn't it a Wednesday? year is a Saturday returned on a Sunday What you did Queen Victoria had become great through Sona 1901 It came if Winston Churchill were alive today. Howard. How serious? 130 and what day of the week would his birthday be this year? It would be a Tuesday, the last day of nowhere in 1987. Kim met actor Dustin Hoffman and became the inspiration for the hit movie Rain Man. We went to Hollywood the next morning and Kim spent the day with Dustin and all his friends of cinema. It was amazing all the things they asked him and all the things he knew.

It was just as he had known it before. There were so many new things that came out of me. Although I'm much older. You're still a good man and for some of them. you. Yes sir. He says that it is not necessary to have a disability to be different because we are all different, although all kinds of associations are bubbling in his mind. No wonder you look like Mary Ruth. It was almost as if she had too much information and couldn't get it out fast enough. She's saying goodbye to me. Well, we looked into each other's eyes and he said, One day you'll be as cool as me and that was a wonderful compliment and we'll aspire to have it.

Before meeting the scientists, Daniel is making one last stop. Inspired by rain man. He is in Las Vegas to see if he can use his amazing memory to beat the house. For someone who hates crowds and flashing lights. He's kind of a haunting place. In reality, he had never been to a casino before. I play cards with friends, sometimes it's better to play with me. In blackjack the dealer has the advantage and even for a card counter it still comes down to chance, it actually was like that. It's hard to concentrate because the white light, the noise, the atmosphere, a strange mix of tension and emotion all in one.

Daniel is playing two rounds with eight inch decks, which is more than 400 cards to keep track of at once. The first round is a disaster. Daniels' chips are rapidly disappearing and memory. only. He's just not giving you an advantage. He eventually changes strategy and follows his instincts to the end. He was trusting intuition and Dimitri, as he flows into my mind at most in the promising moment when Daniel decides to bet. He had a card and I got two sevens. And that's Nanak's hand and it's not particularly a good hand against a 10. I decided to split the sevens, an unusual move that statistically isn't the best move, but something in my head was telling me to do it anyway because of the images I was experiencing, so I split the seventh.

I doubled my bet and they gave me a third. card, and it wasn't anatomy a 7 and at this stage I was really sure about the game because it was my first time playing blackjack in a casino, so can I split those two? Then she is surprised and says sure if you want. So she divides them and now I have my hands free at the same time against a 10 and the people behind me when it's a teenager and you know, they're saying what is she doing? You know it's like that, but she's playing freehand against a 10 she's dividing and it comes up a 10.

He's crazy and then she draws the remaining cards for every seven. He hits 21 on her first hand and again on her second. That's two out of two. Who would bet against the triplet now? That's 321. His sixth sense is the winner and in one fell swoop Daniel squares his losses. How did you get there? I don't care if I lose now, that was fantastic. But Daniel needs to stay alert. He heads to California and the showdown he really counts on. At the San Diego Brain Studies Center. He is about to face a series of tests, but he actually has a kind of sixth sense, a skill with numbers that goes beyond simple memory.

Neuroscientist Professor Ramachandran and his team are intrigued by the idea, but have doubts when Rama first came to see me and told me. Hey, we have this math expert who comes here and he can do 4x4 multiplication and he can recognize prime numbers and he can do division with so many decimal places. I thought that if. He's probably faking it or he's memorized it. You know there are all kinds of techniques, and I'm very skeptical about it. With the jokes about the tests, I can 27 raised to the power of Six oh, can you do some? Okay one zero four six zero three five three two zero three That's no better than the calculator.

I need to see if that zero three is correct or not. But I have a feeling it would be four out of six. Daniel's jet lag is ruining his concentration and making him slower. Seven five seven three six eight spectacular Daniel has certainly impressed scientists with his ability to calculate, but they keep an open mind about his method. Well here. Are we faced with someone who claims to have amazing computer skills? And when we try it with something simple by making a 2 G number like 37? 7 Very very quickly he gave us the exact announcer, and we did it on several different numbers, the question is how was he doing?

One possibility is that Daniel has trained himself to do super-fast calculations in his head? As we are about to see, the human brain can do

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, believe it or not, extraordinary things. Mathematical skill like Daniels' is something that ordinary people can learn. Here in Tokyo, some schools still teach the ancient art of the abacus. Kids start basic skills when they are older and practice like I do when they are 12 years old. These child geniuses are quickly becoming human calculators. I'm sure the lessons are not for the faint-hearted. Well, sometimes I'm so strict that some kid maybe cries or sometimes I hit them but they keep coming.

I hope they are happy, but when they train they never have a smile on their faces, however, eight years of hard work can produce amazing results. Kota Cazuca, 12 years old, is the best in the class. I practiced two hours during the week. and now it's the weekend. I want to become a national champion along with the other tall guys. He can now make enormous calculations with a purely imaginary abacus without manipulating anything but air. Kids like this show us that with enough practice it is possible to perform lightning-fast mental calculations. Hello, mom, mom. Yes, Daniel insists.

He is doing this kind of conscious calculation. He says that his responses come to him spontaneously from mental images of him. Rama and his team have a hard time tripping Daniel, but they're not done with him yet. If Daniel's descriptions of the numbers of him. are real so they should also be consistent he asks Daniel to model some of his numbers with Play-doh But he doesn't tell him that he will be tested again the next day It's hard to imagine him having memorized shapes the question is whether they are the same shape so we can compare that now?

That's two for two. Now let's see, today is two for two. Overall, there is a notable similarity. That is very interesting. Let's take 58 again same story very similar Same color same shape But not exactly the same 810 today 810 yesterday, and again, it's a very precise shape So the general impression is that it seems to be producing the same shapes consistently? has passed the consistency test. But Rama and his team still have doubts that Daniel reacts emotionally to certain numbers. It was a bit mean and I played a prank on Daniel. He said that he loved the cake because he was beautiful.

It was just this wonderful special shape, well, it's so beautiful to him, and he usually gets this wonderful, warm reaction from the cake. I thought I'd show you something that would initially look like a pie on the 3.14 surface and modify it a little. in numbers like those he doesn't like. The small electrodes attached to Daniel's fingers are like a lie detector. They will measure any good or bad emotional response. So if Daniel is shown a number that he really loves, there should be a sign. So, of course. . I showed him this bastardized version of Pi and we saw this very nice thing.

You know, warming up the galvanic response of the skin and then everything and it jumped and suddenly it jumped again and as he scanned it we kept getting another jolt and another jolt. and another shake and it wouldn't stop and then I was asking you what was going on in your head when you were looking at that and he said well, you know, here's this beautiful number pi that I love and I see it and then as I'm looking at the landscape all of a sudden. There's a hole where it's not supposed to be and you know this mountain is missing and and it's really bad and how could you make something so beautiful?

And you know, although it was a little cruel to do that to him. Shows the Do you have any feeling of excitement associated with these numbers because the skin response was off the charts? It was something you just can't fake these are the things Specifically that they're showing me He's not lying and he's not scamming even the mistakes that Daniel is making are the mistakes that they're telling me You know what? This is legit, a faker wouldn't be doing this. So if Daniel is the real deal, how is he able to make such huge calculations without any conscious effort?

You did this calculation in your head, what exactly was going on in your head. I see an image in mine and that image begins to change, begins to almost evolve. It's pretty vague at first as I watch it. It becomes clearer and clearer over time and then from that landscape I can read the crystallized digits gradually. Yes. In a multiplication, the two numbers hover before it and have different shapes. The space between them forms a third shape that Daniel experiences as a new number. He is making the right answer there, but he doesn't even know it.

When it comes to numbers, it seems like Daniel's brain is really doing something extraordinary. I'm impressed, something scientists still can't understand. This could be the axis that generates a new field of research. But we still had one last test for Daniel. Daniel is now flying. to Iceland for the final challenge. We've given you a week to learn a totally new language from scratch and then broadcast it live on national television. Even locals say that Icelandic is confusing and unpronounceable. The difficult thing is the grammar, I would say, but we have fun. sounds he never remembered making a sound like this with the clock ticking Daniel badly needs some lessons but his teacher doesn't seem to haveI hope there's a minute, but it's impossible to know an Icelandic So four is the one I can get to The states have this feeling.

It's like saying impossible. Impossible. Thoughtful for a human to learn this in just a week. That's the Icelandic word for impossible. You know colloquial. Speak if a knife is Daniels Brain Power may have reached its limits First, when you enter a new language it's like a person That's just what you're here You wouldn't do it, you'd just hit it a little bit a little bit and by Ear It takes time to adapt and tune in and try to find the sounds. If you're like me, it's one thing to learn the language, to speak it, and to be able to produce it so delicately, you know, to talk to someone, to understand, really, to listen. the language and understanding it, that's another thing because here it takes a lot of time to get used to the totally different sounds.

Gonna Pop returned in One Day Queer taxes imposed. There is one day left until Daniels chats live and shows his teachers. The first doubts return to astonishment. It was like a cleaner watching. I can see that you were absorbing the words and he was putting them into his incursion bit by bit, hour by hour. I'm starting to tune in and hear more and more of the language and understand more and more. It's one thing. chatting with your teacher Speaking live in front of a quarter of a million people is the real test. I have no idea.

What will come out? Tomorrow, if you stress too much, nothing will come of it. The seven days are up and Daniel is making last-minute preparations. He goes on air, okay, tell me, rent ultra-left henchmen from Minton to Milan.in from Queen Tolliver Daniel tomato, Eastland school nestor thoroughness, cozy cozy entourage of him a letter you fell back a sense carefully make a leg so fat, Air Um how co telkom Vega y, here Inca is let's go to the air ah So I eat them enzo Anda O yang ff it's not the school Ozma How well has Daniel managed to speak Icelandic after only a week of learning the language ? go?

Darla, a walk with the key mouth. Surprisingly, it looks like Daniel has pulled it off. Darla is the school's stand-up fuse. Wow, I was surprised that he was answering our questions. He understood them very well and I thought his grammar was very good Malanga Saya, so my heading We are very proud of our language, and then someone can speak it after just a week. That's first, it's great. Ok dad. This is really sustained. Ellis is definitely unique. I would say genius and for me I will never contact a person or a student to ask if that is because he is almost beyond his.

He is not human. There is no doubt that skills like Daniels' are extremely rare. World authority on Dr. Darrell Trafford has spent his entire life studying the rainman phenomenon and has no doubts about where to classify Daniel? My two minutes is probably less than 50 people living in world one. I think the skill is at a prodigious level because it would be spectacular. If a pair were seen on any of us it would be spectacular. Likewise, though Daniel has been blessed with something almost miraculous. The good fortune that lies between profound talent and profound disability seems real and surprisingly Finnish.

The way Daniel is able to describe his inner world is giving scientists a window into the brain they've never heard before. But the truth is that the journey of exploration is just beginning. The most important question is whether we all have some of those skills within us and whatnot. This is what I refer to as the little rain man inside each of us. What I do isn't, I don't think it's what you can, it's actually something I can't explain, who knows, there might be a head that everyone can access somehow. Savant syndrome challenges us to think in new ways about intelligence and what intelligence you are.