We Might All Be Superhuman

摘要

Reciting 22,514 digits from memory, drawing an entire landscape after seeing it once, and the spontaneous ability to play the piano are among the awesome feats of savants. On page 40, one of these prodigies issues a plea for us all to stop seeing his abilities as magical, and thus inexplicable. Instead, we shouldrnregard them as providing a glimpse of the extraordinary things the human mind is capable of.