I had a classmates who was real studious in elementary, got thrown off a horse and given a concussion. After that he hated education and became a bitbof a dumbass jock/pothead.... then in a football game he got his shit rocked and a massive concussion. After that he was back to a studius pupil and took is mark from a 42 to an 89
"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
Honest to God I'm pretty sure that's what must've happened
Take this with a grain of salt. I remember learning that you can reverse the effects of a TBI by hitting your head again. I know it sounds a bit ridiculous.
Yeah most people call it psilocybin.
I hear it grows best on cow shit or rotting wood.
Best no, but it grows on various shits yes. Elephant and cow shit being two examples. Open fields as well.
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Brain injuries can do whacky things sometimes.
It could have been the quitting pot too. For a while I was using pot everyday and I didn’t even realize it but it made me a whole different person and took away most of my spark for intelligence, and then when I quit, I felt like my brain rebounded and I gained new purpose to create art and learn things more than I ever did before. Super interesting how the brain can recover, I bet this situation was a combination of both, like a rebound.
This guy originally started using medicinally after a car accident before partaking in it recreationally (he wasn't like heavy use more so "giggles on a friday" type) He never really gave it up and still dabbles in it so idk
Wow wild
This is some looney tune shit
a classmates
This freaks me out, I accidentally gave my brother a concussion when I was younger and I’d feel so guilty if I gave him brain damage
Like an old CRT TV: whack it a few times and it works right.
Strike of genius.
On the other hand, I have a friend who was jumped by three dudes outside of a bar and the doctors had to rebuild his face with titanium, all he got was half his face gets really cold in the winter..
That’s a horrible super power! He should have seen the doctors who put Steve Austin together.
Those guys don't work for free and himie didn't have insurance, so a victim of violence group helped financially.
The 6 million dollar man.
Yeah, I know someone who got a really bad concussion. All it did was give him brain damage because he didn't visit the ER
And titanium armor for the next unlucky soul that tries to sucker punch him
I'm just going to say that understanding the concept of pi and having vision issues don't make him a genius. Pretty cool about the new drawing ability, though.
Nah man the guy is unreal. He has acquired savant syndrome. From Wikipedia:
Padgett continued drawing. He would take his drawing pad everywhere he went and one day a man approached him asking about his drawings.
“I’m trying to describe the discrete structure of space time based on the Planck length and quantum black holes,” Padgett told him. It turned out the man was a physicist and recognized the high-level mathematics Padgett was drawing. He urged him to take a math class, which led Padgett to enroll in a community college."[2]
Padgett returned to school where he learned the mathematical vocabulary to communicate what he was seeing and experiencing. While attending school, he met his now wife, Elena Padgett.[5]
Before he did that he was a futon salesman. Didn’t know anything about the concepts. Now he makes drawings that require an intense understanding of mathematics and physics
I'm glad that he's able to make money with his art. His art is really cool and I like the creativity of blending in math and science concepts. But this isn't being a mathematician. This isn't being a genius. He does cool art. He doesn't have any special knowledge. When a physicist tells you to go take a math class, that's not a compliment. Physics without math is just thinking of neat ideas. Which is fine, but again, not anything to do with being a math or physics genius. He acquired the savant ability to do cool art. Good for him.
Honestly, he just sounds like yet another mentally ill person who thinks they've cracked the secrets of the universe. Has he contributed anything that established mathematicians/scientists take seriously?
Yes, he has. He went through numerous tests by verified professionals. They did stuff like MRIs. He was diagnosed with aquired savant disorder
What did he contribute?
Nothing, to math or physics. He's an artist.
Yes, he has.
What?
Actually no.
He sells fractal-inspired art. That is all.
I thought this was obvious but apparently not
I doubt getting an MRI done would be regarded by mathematicians as an important contribution to the field
The concept of pi is very basic.
I’m 17, I turn 18 in a few months and I have 19 concussions, I was super smart when younger but now I sometimes forget what I was gunna say and have anger issues :(
How does someone who's super smart get 19 concussions? I'd be reevaluating my life choices after two or three.
"If you're so smart why did you get beat up so many times"
You're operating on the assumption this person got these concussions doing something reckless. There is no way to be "too smart to be injured" and even believing that the two are related is how people become complacent. It is a well studied phenomena in safety and security. No amount of experience or intellect makes one immune to these things. It does not even affect it.
They never shared how they received these injuries so it is frankly naive to make the assumption you're making.
Yeah that’s true but 19 is a super big number it’s super dangerous and not normal to have that many unless ur doing something in ur life that puts u at risk. For ex if ops a football player than it’s there choice to have risked getting that many concussions which is dumb they would do that. Now it could just all be coincidence but that’s fairly unlikely
It was downhill after the first one.
Yea :(
Well I still went to a small town country school, I was in almost every sport including football and outside of school I did motocross, quiting wasn’t an option in my family until the doctor stopped me from playing.
Percussive maintenance.
Bois, I think I have a plan now to increase my GPA.
Go for it.
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Not sure he's a genius...I mean, that hand is just a cut out of a whole fractal into a hand shape...
He is a legitimate mathematical genius. He has been diagnosed with acquired savant syndrome, which has only around 40 known cases. The drawings he makes requires an intense understanding of mathematics.
From Wikipedia:
Padgett continued drawing. He would take his drawing pad everywhere he went and one day a man approached him asking about his drawings.
“I’m trying to describe the discrete structure of space time based on the Planck length and quantum black holes,” Padgett told him. It turned out the man was a physicist and recognized the high-level mathematics Padgett was drawing. He urged him to take a math class, which led Padgett to enroll in a community college.[2]
Padgett returned to school where he learned the mathematical vocabulary to communicate what he was seeing and experiencing. While attending school, he met his now wife, Elena Padgett.[5]
“I’m trying to describe the discrete structure of space time based on the Planck length and quantum black holes,” <-- this is word salad
He urged him to take a math class, <-- a physicist telling you to go take a math class is a polite way of saying your ideas don't make any sense
How do you not understand the concept of pi?
😂
Its literally so simple. its just the number of times the diameter can go around the circumference of a circle
Clearly apple > pumpkin
Pi is not a hard concept though.. it's just circumference divided by diameter
Honestly it sounds more like someone knocked some schizophrenia loose in him.
Those are not the signs of a "math genius". Lots of local schizophrenics that'll draw you lots of fractals.
Bro does not know what fractals are
The concusive therapy taught him.
Was talking to you lol. Fractals are math. Most people don't see math everywhere they look. I think that's definitely an ability rather than just "schizophrenia". Like he obviously knows that they aren't actually that visible. He's seeing things that are there, that the rest of us cannot see.
Kilometres are math too but if you suddenly became obsessed with measuring how many milometers everything fits into, it wouldn't make you savant.
Seeing patterns where there are none is a classic symptom of schizophrenia. Many schizophrenics use math to bridge that is aught gap. It's an incredibly common symptom of schizophrenia to be obsessed with seeing and drawing mathematical relations everywhere, particularly fractals, the golden ratio, and circles.
If you have someone you love who is suddenly drawing a lot of geometric designs and drawing special meaning from them where there is none, that's a major sign of schizophrenia.
It's funny they specifically mentioned pi and fractals because those are two of the most common mathematical elements to latch on to because they're somewhat mysterious and most people are exposed to them young.
being schizophrenic doesn't prelude you from being intelligent or even being correct at times. But it's a disorder of misappropriating meaning and patter seeking.
💀 you're actually almost too stupid to argue with. He didnt become "obsessed with measuring fractals everywhere" he just started seeing them. They literally do contain special meaning. That's what math is. Idk why you couldn't just be like "oh neat, he can see math where other people can't, cool! " Fucking insufferable.
There's math everywhere. Math is just our way of describing relations between things. It's meaningless to say "I see math everywhere". Everyone sees math everywhere at all times. Most of it is irrelevant, meaningless or just subconscious.
There's specific meaning to the math that dictates that the screen I am using is 1080p and 18". The specific hertz of my computer, the size of my keyboard, the pressure it takes to type down every key, the rate of my heart, the fluid oz in my lungs between each exasperated breath.
Without utility it is meaningless. As most math mathematicians will readily point out. There's NOTHING special here. To impart something special to it is an error in your pattern seeking. Just like you can ascribe a lot of meaning to seeing a face in one picture of some mountains on mars, and if you really want to you can deconstruct that to the level of how our minds seek patterns and how light tricks are created in pictures through angles and lighting.
Everyone sees fractals all the time. Look outside your window. Almost all of nature is constructed with them.
It doesn't mean much to know that. It's not even the shallowest part of the magnitudes of understanding we have on fractals or nature. But this isn't an article about the amazing cutting edge utilities he's discovered with this.
Which is why it's literally meaningless and an error in patter seeking.
If you can't see that math in the world, it says more about how unaware you are about math, not about other people. They literally teach this stuff in grade school. It's fucking Pi, ever seen a circle or a sphere? Is it enlightening to see the wheels of a bus and realizing that the area of the wheel is rpi2? Are you enlightened when you see a sunflower and know that the seeds form in a spiral fractal?
No, because without making commentary about the utility of these facts it's literally meaningless. It's just a show that you finished grade 7.
Do you know if you draw a square, then draw a line through it from corner to corner, then draw a line from one of the corners that you left untouched to the centre of the last line and continue to do that you can draw a fractal to the complexity allowable by the thinness of your drawing implement, the size of your original square, and the lightness of your touch? Does this make you Einstein or just equivalent to anyone who's been bored enough to doodle in class?
Maybe you should consider getting your own mental health assessment if you're seeing significant meaning in the most mundane stories ever told, for example, OP's image.
And now you're trying to act like he literally doesn't see things differently. Wow. Maybe like, idk, read about the guy before just assuming dumb shit? Go outside right now, open your eyes for 5 seconds, come back inside and list every single fractal you saw. Oh wait, you can't, because you aren't a fucking savant.
Redditors will literally un-ironically argue with someones medical diagnosis and expect to be treated seriously
Edit: I love how I can tell you're a man just from this interaction
This deffo happened to me but the other way round, no wonder I’m so dumb now
Geometric shapes are everywhere. Nature isn’t very random in its construction. Also, pi is not a difficult concept to grasp. He isn’t beautiful minding this. He is just “putting glasses on for the first time and now thinking he has better vision that everyone else” 😂😂😂
Also, if you’re seeing the world as pixelated, you might have brain damage😳
So this is why my father smacked me in the back of the head whenever I screwed up in school? Good to know
"understood the concept of pi" what the hell is that supposed to mean
So you’re saying I need to be beaten half to death to get smart?
how does this work?
What bar was this? I'm trying to get a promotion and this seems the fastest route.
Am i the only ome that thinks he looks like willem dafoe?
This guy isn't some math genius
Was this in Boston? Sounds like Matt Damon’s early draft.
What did you think it wasn't real? That it didn't work? People didn't say it for nothing you know and imo it's needed more than ever 😂
Savant. Never again
I went to HS with him, it’s a crazy thing and transformation. His understanding of geometry is only possessed by a handful of people in the world. Nuts.
Edit- I forgot to add that he literally sees geometry.
ohh! Strike of genius.
Knocked some sins into him.
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