What is acquired savant syndrome?
https://smartdrugsmarts.com/episodes/ac ... -syndrome/Acquired Savant Syndrome refers to cases in which savant-level skills emerge after a brain injury or disease in previously healthy individuals where no such prodigious skills were evident beforehand.
What are some of the known savant-level skills?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2677584/Considering all the abilities in the human repertoire, it is interesting that savant skills generally narrow to five general categories: music, usually performance, most often piano, with perfect pitch, although composing in the absence of performing has been reported as has been playing multiple instruments (as many as 22); art, usually drawing, painting or sculpting; calendar calculating (curiously an obscure skill in most persons); mathematics, including lightning calculating or the ability to compute prime numbers, for example, in the absence of other simple arithmetic abilities; and mechanical or spatial skills, including the capacity to measure distances precisely without benefit of instruments, the ability to construct complex models or structures with painstaking accuracy or the mastery of map making and direction finding.
Other skills have been reported less often, including: prodigious language (poly-glot) facility; unusual sensory discrimination in smell, touch or vision including synaesthesia; perfect appreciation of passing time without benefit of a clock; and outstanding knowledge in specific fields such as neurophysiology, statistics or navigation.
For Discussion..
1. What is your experience or understanding of this ability? Do you accept that it proves that we are omniscient?
I'll answer first.
I've already explained how this fits into my worldview but let me also explain experiences of omniscience and how to acquire it. I know when many have meditated on a deity, that they had momentary experiences of omniscience. All that they thought on - the information or answers for it would just rush in naturally. But then it would not last long and some of the information is not remembered. However, where some would say the information was not "remembered", I would rather say the information is no longer "realized". This is because the person is no longer in the meditative state that allows access to omniscience.
Let me explain further for the skeptics. All of the information of your life experience is contained in your memory even if you can't recall it. What is not readily accepted is that your memory or mind also contains all of the information and experiences contained in the Universe and not just that of your own experiences. As I hinted to earlier, meditation can be used to access this level of our memory or mind. Science already proves that meditation can expand your field of consciousness when it makes you more aware of the unconscious level of your mind. And we also see here that scientists already accept that an omniscient mind exists, but they are not yet open on using meditation to unlock it.
Do you see why I believe that Western materialist science is holding back mankind from their real potential?