@fact_fluent: Why Nebraska is Empty by Design ##learning #facts #unitedstates #informative

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In 2002, a furniture salesman named Jason Padgett walked out of a karaoke bar in Tacoma, Washington. Two men attacked him from behind. They kicked him in the head until he lost consciousness. He woke up in a hospital with a severe concussion and post-traumatic stress disorder. He could barely leave his house. Then the world changed. Padgett began seeing geometric patterns in everything. Running water broke into tessellations. Tree branches split into fractals. A circle was no longer a curve. It was a polygon with so many sides the eye could not distinguish them from smoothness. He was seeing what Archimedes described in 250 BC: a regular polygon inscribed inside a circle, its perimeter converging on 2 times pi times the radius as the number of sides approaches infinity. Padgett had no math background. He had barely passed high school algebra. A neurologist named Darold Treffert diagnosed him with acquired savant syndrome, a condition in which severe brain trauma unlocks extraordinary cognitive abilities that were not accessible before the injury. Fewer than 40 cases have ever been documented. Brain scans showed that the areas of his brain responsible for mathematical reasoning had become hyperactive. The damage to one region forced another to compensate. The mathematics had not arrived from outside. It had been structurally present the entire time. The injury removed whatever was keeping him from accessing it. Treffert spent decades arguing that savant abilities might be latent in all human brains, suppressed by the same neural architecture that keeps us functional. If math was already inside Jason Padgett's head before the injury, is it inside yours?
In 2002, a furniture salesman named Jason Padgett walked out of a karaoke bar in Tacoma, Washington. Two men attacked him from behind. They kicked him in the head until he lost consciousness. He woke up in a hospital with a severe concussion and post-traumatic stress disorder. He could barely leave his house. Then the world changed. Padgett began seeing geometric patterns in everything. Running water broke into tessellations. Tree branches split into fractals. A circle was no longer a curve. It was a polygon with so many sides the eye could not distinguish them from smoothness. He was seeing what Archimedes described in 250 BC: a regular polygon inscribed inside a circle, its perimeter converging on 2 times pi times the radius as the number of sides approaches infinity. Padgett had no math background. He had barely passed high school algebra. A neurologist named Darold Treffert diagnosed him with acquired savant syndrome, a condition in which severe brain trauma unlocks extraordinary cognitive abilities that were not accessible before the injury. Fewer than 40 cases have ever been documented. Brain scans showed that the areas of his brain responsible for mathematical reasoning had become hyperactive. The damage to one region forced another to compensate. The mathematics had not arrived from outside. It had been structurally present the entire time. The injury removed whatever was keeping him from accessing it. Treffert spent decades arguing that savant abilities might be latent in all human brains, suppressed by the same neural architecture that keeps us functional. If math was already inside Jason Padgett's head before the injury, is it inside yours?

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