How do we know that Amyumu wasn't a savant chimp himself?
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Originally posted by VetLegion
Interesting, but It's not that surprising if you think about it. Every animal is better than humans in something.
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Interesting. I remember there was some Russian bloke a good few years ago with fantastic eidetic memory. He used to memorise tables of numbers, and the psychologist even tested him on one of these tables over 20 years later and he recalled the lot.
However saying this, because of the way that this mans brain was organised, he was completely useless at other things. If another person changed his facial expression, he could no longer recognise him. His mind worked extremely linearly and he just didn't have the lateral thinking skills and adaptability other human brains have. I think he was a dustman by profession because grasping rough concepts was nigh on impossible.
So yes, these apes may have this immense talent for memorisation, but this may be a factor of their brains being differently organised to our own, and the advantages this organisation grants us way surpasses simple memorisation.Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith
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Originally posted by Darius871
So true...
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AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
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Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Interesting. I remember there was some Russian bloke a good few years ago with fantastic eidetic memory. He used to memorise tables of numbers, and the psychologist even tested him on one of these tables over 20 years later and he recalled the lot.
However saying this, because of the way that this mans brain was organised, he was completely useless at other things. If another person changed his facial expression, he could no longer recognise him. His mind worked extremely linearly and he just didn't have the lateral thinking skills and adaptability other human brains have. I think he was a dustman by profession because grasping rough concepts was nigh on impossible.
Sometimes if somebody coughed while saying something, his memories would visually obscure that particular word, and he would have to actually manipulate the position of the visuals in his memory in order to "see" the word clearly.
"lol internet" ~ AAHZ
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Originally posted by DaShi
How do we know that Amyumu wasn't a savant chimp himself?
Also, clearly, the chimp must have been trained to do this. It would be interesting if they took a human baby and trained it to do the same thing every day for a few years. Then compare it to a chimp.
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Originally posted by Jon Miller
Originally posted by OzzyKP
I can't believe they made that many Air Bud movies.
JM
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THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF
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