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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 01:56:01 2019 No.11018785 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11019576 >>11019856

someone tell me how does the actual rain man's brain work?
if a part of his brain is missing then how is he actually able to out perform normal brain function by far?

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2019 12:07:47 No.11019576 Report

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>>11018785
Its the same reason that chimpanzees outperform humans in memory tasks
his condition was caused by misinterpretation of his dna
he should have had a bunch of vestigial genes turned off, but they weren't
so, his brain developed into a hybrid between an early homo brain, and a modern homo brain
brains like these don't devote large amounts of gray matter to speech, or tool use, rather, the brain is unspecialized, and it just uses its gray matter for any repetitive task, like reading

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Anonymous Mon 30 Sep 2019 15:00:16 No.11019856 Report

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>if a part of his brain is missing
He was just an idiot savant which was an umbrella term that included autism.

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