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 Are Savants & Prodigies a Glimpse at Early Human Abilities: Part 2
Posted bybibleland on Thursday, September 14 @ 13:03:24 CDT
Contributed by bibleland
 In a previous article (Are Savants and Prodigies a Glimpse at Early Human Abilities?) we introduced you to several prodigious savants that despite being mentally handicapped in other areas, showed tremendous abilities way beyond normal intelligence. We suggested that this gives us a glimpse into what we were once capable of when we were first created. Now we would like to revisit this fascinating concept by introducing you to Orlando Sorrel (not sure of spelling).
In an interesting video interview on CNN.com titled the “Mystery of Savants,” Dr. Treffert, who has studied savants for over 40 years and was an advisor on the movie Rainman introduces us to several savants. First we meet Andrew Savage, a prodigious savant who is autistic but has been playing the piano since he was 6. At age 14 he has played with the greatest of musicians with the greatest of ease though he only practices about an hour every day. It is not uncommon to for an autistic person to be a savant since about 1 in 10 people with autism are savants, but “there are only about 100 prodigious savants in the world.”(Gupta 2006) They have the most incredible talents of all. But as interesting as Andrew is, even more fascinating is the condition that Dr. Treffert calls “acquired savant”. “Orlando Sorrel’s childhood was normal until age 10 when he was struck in the head by a baseball. The injury somehow resulted in... To see the rest of this article click Read More.
phenomenal recall. Sorrel and others who have acquired amazing abilities after brain injuries have led Treffert to conclude we all must have genius in us but sometimes it takes a disability like Savage’s or an injury like Sorrel’s to bring it out. Other researchers disagree and say that savants are just able to overcompensate for damage to the left side of the brain.” (Gupta 2006)
Judge for yourself. Even if you’re not a doctor it seems pretty obvious that not all savant abilities are just overcompensating. Ellen (from our other article on savants) has tremendous spatial awareness of objects around her which we could expect in someone who is blind. If the theory of the other researchers were correct we could label that compensating because one area is making up for a lack in another area. But the other abilities she and other savants have such as perfect awareness of the passage of time or the ability to reproduce on paper an entire city skyline after just seeing it once does not give any added benefit or compensation that would help a person’s survival.
Personally, Dr. Treffert’s idea that we are all capable of incredible mental abilities makes more sense but is also painfully tantalizing. Probably most of us are wishing “If only I could…” In the end though, it always boils down to Apes, Aliens or Adam. Where do you say these amazing abilities come from? There has to be some explanation for them. Rather than accidents of nature, we believe the implications of acquired savants are pretty obvious. Something was “turned on” that wasn’t functioning at that level before. What we once were is still inside of us. The capacity for tremendous height, beauty, strength or intelligence is still there, occasionally expressed, showing that “created in the image of God,” (God) means a lot more than we’ve understood before.
For more information on savants visit the Wisconsin Medical Society's website.
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