Τετάρτη 31 Δεκεμβρίου 2014

Entropy Lecture

Entropy Lecture

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Entropy Lecture

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Κυριακή 28 Δεκεμβρίου 2014

Michio Kaku: The Supergenius

Michio Kaku: The Supergenius

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 15 Μαΐ 2014

Dr. Michio Kaku returns to Big Think studios to discuss his latest book, The Future of the Mind (http://goo.gl/1mcGeb).
Here Dr. Kaku discusses Asperger syndrome, autism, savants, Albert
Einstein, Isaac Newton... and the characters on CBS' The Big Bang
Theory.

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Transcript
- If you watch the Big Bang Theory on CBS television you see these
clueless nerds who are doormats when ti comes to the opposite sex,
right. And you realize is there any basis in reality? First of all
none of my friends are like that and all my friends are physicists,
right. Well there is a kernel of truth and that is some of these
individuals may suffer from something called Asperger's Syndrome which
is a mild form of autism. These people are clueless when it comes to
social interactions. They don't look you in the eye, for example. And
yet they have fantastic mental and mathematical capabilities.

We
think, for example, that Isaac Newton had Asperger's. The greatest
scientist of all time was very strange. He had no friends to speak of.
He could not carry a decent conversation and yet here he was spitting
out some of the greatest theories in the history of science. Calculus.
The Universal Law of Gravitation. The Theory of Optics. And we think
he had Asperger's Syndrome. Now Asperger's Syndrome is a mild form of
autism and in autism we have what are called savants. That is people
that have an IQ of maybe 80 but have incredible mathematical and musical
abilities. In fact, some of these individuals can hear one symphony
and just play it by memory on a piano.

Other people could be in a
helicopter, have a helicopter ride over Manhattan, see the entire New
York harbor and then from memory sketch the entire harbor. In fact, if
you want to see it go to JFK Airport in New York City and you will see
it as you enter the international terminal.

So what is it about
these people? Well, first of all a lot of them had injuries to the
left temporal lobe. One individual had a bullet as a child go right
through the left temporal lobe. Another person dived into a swimming
pool and injured very badly the left temporal lobe. And these people
wound up with incredible mathematical abilities as a consequence.

And
so what is it about their brains? Well Einstein's brain has actually
been preserved. Einstein when he died had an autopsy in which case the
pathologist stole the brain without permission of the family. He just
realized that he was sitting next to something historic, took the brain,
took it home with him and it was sitting in a jar in his home for
decades. He even drove across the country with the jar inside his
trunk.

And there's even a TV special where you can actually see
the cut up brain of Albert Einstein. And you realize first of all the
brain is a little bit different. You can't tell by looking at it that
it's so remarkably different but you realize that the connections
between the prefontal cortex and the parietal lobe -- a connection that
is accentuated in people that do abstract reasoning is thickened. So
there definitely is a difference in the brain of Einstein. But the
question is did it make Einstein or did Einstein make this change of the
brain? Are champions born or are they made? That still is not known
because people who exercise mental abilities, mathematical abilities,
they can thicken that part of the brain themselves.

So we know
that people who do well in mathematics brain scans clearly show that
their brains are slightly different from the average brain. So in
conclusion, we're still children with regards to understanding how this
process takes place. Tonight don't go home and bang yourself on the
left temporal lobe. We don't know how it works. We just know that in a
tiny fraction of these cases people with injury to the left temporal
lobe, some of the become super geniuses.

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