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I absolutely envy my former colleague's gains and would gladly have my noggin knocked if I was guaranteed to have similar results!

Unfortunately, because they both led ordinary lives, there were no scans of their brains prior to the accident (yes, I asked). And, there certainly weren't any brain related devices recording their accidents. So, I'm not aware of any easy way to identify the injuries with enough precision.

fMRI imaging while undergoing their savant-based tasks?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_magnetic_resonance_i...

School of hard knocks

Yeah, there's a lot I would give to have those abilities. Especially the one about not needing as much sleep. (Assuming they actually don't need it; waking up after four hours still exhausted would be less fun.)

It would be great if one could turn it on and off with a head implant.

I can't find the link, but there was an unsuccessful unethical study that tried to reproduce this. I think most of the test subjects died, none became savants.

I see startup potential here, "Head Knock LLC"

9/10 would andreessen

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