Monday, January 23, 2006

Who is s[he]?[3]


Name: Kim Peek,
Age: 54 years old,
Born: November 11, 1951.
Nickname: the human computer or as his father likes to call him "Kimputer"

A mystrious brain, a powerful Human being, A hunchback look, a kind heart, a genius mind. In every second a brain cell is never wasted. Every glance, every word read are stored in his never-proven existing mind.
That's Kim Peek. Kim has savant syndrom and autism, he has problems in social communications, and thinking in abstracts. He can't be very creative but he is a memorizing machine. Some of his abilities are:
- He memorizes fully 9000 books after just reading them once.
- He read the novel "The hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy 480pages" within one hour and 25min, and he can recall any character in the novel and refering to the page numbers.
- He reads a page in 8 to 10 seconds.
- He can read two pages in the same time a page for each eye!
- He started memorizing books at the age of 18months.
- He memorizes Telephon books, and road maps.
- He can give directions to any place within the USA, giving you directions by street names, zip codes and so on. He knows all the area codes and zip codes of the USA. Exactly like how Yahoo does.
- He can give you any day of week corresponds to any given date like 23rd of Jan 2006 is Monday, or 23rd January 1983 was Sunday.
- He has 15 interests at least, History, sports, movies, geography...etc
- He can identify 100s of classical compositions, and tell when and where each was composed.
- the movie Rain Man was inspired by him.
- NASA did some experiments on his brain.

Ref: Scientific American[Dec 2005], Wikipedia.
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7 comments:

. said...

Hey my friend, i wonder if there's a novel u didnt read!

Unknown said...

Damn thats crazy! Interesting read.

. said...

lol Marko....Yes but that's more like amazing than crazy :)

Anonymous said...

Subhana Allah !

Its a great thing to have all this .. but in somepoint he wil get crazy of all the detials and info that are in his brain but what to say each human were created by Allah with his own abilities :)

BTW .. where is CIA .. they will sure need him !!

. said...

If CIA used him, they would try to find me first :p.

Raed said...

and yet people find it weird when they hear about al shaf3i!

. said...

Yes You are right. I agree.Nowadays It's hard to know how to convince people of something which's History...