I remember a story about Daniel Tammet I read several months ago. Daniel Tammet is a savant who is able to effortlessly recount pi to 22,514 digits (besides other abilities such as speaking more than ten languages). Here is his explanation of how he did it:
Well, I don’t really know about synesthesia. I’m just thinking, isn’t it great if we can visualize information this way? We read a book, and the information comes to our mind as a visualized landscape instead of mere words. We can then recall the ideas in the book precisely by visualizing the landscape.
I don’t know if there is a way to do this, but who knows?
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“I see numbers in my head as colors and shapes and textures. So when I see a long sequence, the sequence forms landscapes in my mind,” Tammet explains. “Every number up to 10,000, I can visualize in this way, has it’s own color, has it’s own shape, has it’s own texture.”A Wikipedia article about Daniel Tammet explains that this is a form of synesthesia.
For example, when Daniel says he sees Pi, he does those instant computations, he is not calculating, but says the answer simply appears to him as a landscape of colorful shapes.
“The shapes aren’t static. They’re full of color. They’re full of texture. In a sense, they’re full of life,” he says.
Well, I don’t really know about synesthesia. I’m just thinking, isn’t it great if we can visualize information this way? We read a book, and the information comes to our mind as a visualized landscape instead of mere words. We can then recall the ideas in the book precisely by visualizing the landscape.
I don’t know if there is a way to do this, but who knows?
http://www.lifeoptimizer.org
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