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Originally Posted by Uplift  So Calculusaurus, if scientists understand 'savant' abilities, it should then be no problem for the scientists to personally demonstrate and control the abilities. As you say, it is totally untrue to say that scientists understand savant abilities. A little bit of observation doesn't give anyone knowledge of anything, despite what they would have you believe. |
Reread my post - I didn't say that scientists understand savant syndrome. The brain is astronomically complex. If you're a scientist, and your job is to understand the networked behavior of 100 billion nerve cells, can I really blame you if you don't have a complete working theory for an extremely rare neurological disorder?
For the record, here's a list of other things scientists don't understand.
-sleep
-nutrition
-gravity
-prime numbers . . .
In your first post, you said that savants express abilities that "defy" scientific explanation. This is terribly poor wording. Evolution
defies creationism. There's nothing about savant syndrome that
defies science. Savant syndrome currently just has plenty of unfilled gaps.
Other than that, I don't quite understand the point you're trying to make, other than showing a general misunderstanding of science
