January 2009

Central bankers expect global recovery in 2010 - International Herald Tribune.

Imagine that.  Some good news.  Not that they know what they’re talking about…but at this point, I’ll take it.

Inside the Savant Mind: Tips for Thinking from an Extraordinary Thinker: Scientific American.

I find this article wildly interesting.  It’s an interview with an autistic savant who described how he ’sees’ numbers and letters in his mind.  It’s almost synesthetic.

It makes me wonder even more deeply about the nature of reality.  For instance, is it that these people with “mental illnesses” aren’t really ill at all?  Could they are simply “tuned to” or able to perceive different aspects of the complete reality in which we live?

What’s even more interesting to me are the patterns which seem to emerge in cognition of this “other slice of reality” when you dig a little.  For instance, people on DMT have reported vivid “hallucinations” similar to synethestics and schizophrenics and near-death experiencers.

There are those who may say its a matter of brain chemistry…which I, frankly, agree with.  However, due to the similarities of experience, one can only wonder if this change in brain chemistry allows these people to view different slices of the complete reality.

Intriguing stuff.