Savant for a Day

[Cthulhu]

Fucking around with your cortex. (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/health/article-printpage.html?res=9506EFD81538F931A15755C0A9659C8 B63)
Fascinating article, would temporary savant abilities mess up your self-identification?

[steve]

That's awesome. I'm hooking myself up to a car battery the next time I have a paper due.

That reminds me of something I learned in a Philosophy class: If you cut the connection between the two hemispheres of your brain and somehow showed a different picture to each side, you'd say you saw picture A, but write that you saw picture B.

[Max Power]

That's awesome. I'm hooking myself up to a car battery the next time I have a paper due.

That reminds me of something I learned in a Philosophy class: If you cut the connection between the two hemispheres of your brain and somehow showed a different picture to each side, you'd say you saw picture A, but write that you saw picture B.

That's assuming you could write or speak after such a procedure.

[mysterious bunny]

That's assuming you could write or speak after such a procedure.
good point

[steve]

Yes, I think that's why it was a Philosophy class and not a Medical class.