VICE Meets: Daniel Tammet

En 2004 Daniel Tammet sorprendió al mundo haciendo algo increíble: recitó de memoria 22.514 decimales del número pi. El reportero de VICE Raül Calàbria entrevista a este autista con Síndrome del Sabio para saber hasta dónde puede llegar el cerebro humano. VICE habla con una de las mentes más prodigiosas del mundo, Daniel Tammet, capaz de hacer grandes operaciones matemáticas mentalmente pero incapaz de conducir un coche.
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[@videomotivationymas5540]

Su mensaje al final con esa humildad Simplemente es alguien del cual admirar Yo admiro está clases de personas Mil respeto a ese caballero con esa mente tan evolucionada en la matemática Yo quisiera tener el privilegio de poder tener una mente como la de el Simplemente un genio

[@alexsinger4862]

Nadamas por curiosidad de hecho es como una involución siendo una total paradoja con lo que se creía del cerebro de personas inteligentes otro ejemplo es Kim peek y Jason padgget que esté último adquirió el síndrome de savant con sinestesia lo cual le permitía ver fractales. OwO. Y estudia matemáticas complejas y ya en resumen solo pueden acceder a partes que el cerebro normalmente inhibe para funcionar "correctamente" en forma de compensación neuronal ya que este síndrome está asociado con problemas o lesiones en el hemisferio izquierdo y lóbulo temporal izquierdo , hemos evolucionado mal nuestro cerebro

[@keepXonXrockin]

Strong Paul McCartney vibes from the interviewer

[@Ariana-666]

Es una gran persona este hombre, de verdad.

[@ponejito24]

Y pensar que antes se le hubiera hecho a un lado, que bueno que parendio a ser sociable, su mensaje del final es muy bueno :)-

[@mix_maak]

teniendo personajes así ¿por qué no hacer los vídeos más largo?

[@Carlos-rx7hr]

Excelente entrevista muy buen mensaje el del final.!

[@torresjesus9893]

aunque paresca increible, mi padre podia memorizar 1000 numeros de pi, ademas podia memorizar su tema y daba clases sin ningun tipo de ayuda o material, el utilizaba una tecnica o metodo de memorizaicon muy particular parecida, sin embargo lo de daniel es llevarlo al sgte nivel. por cierto daniel habla mas de 8 idiomas hasta donde se incluido el español porque no hizo la entrevista en español?

[@r0L4Nd0d4V1D2]

Muy buena entrevista. Saludos desde Paraguay.

[@azocaruk1]

Maravilloso!

[@Wonmanbanned]

What a beautiful man he is.

[@robfiorello2134]

So amazing. What I could learn from him if I just had 30 minutes. But I never will.

[@Divodams]

A ver teóricamente el hombre este no memoriza números, simplemente los ve en su cabeza como formas pero no utiliza la memoria para nada segun deduje del documental donde lo ví por primera vez, si teneis curiosidad miradlo porque se explica bastante bien como funciona su mente y como el interpreta los números y calcula con ellos cantidades asombrosas sin esfuerzo porque los ve en su mente de alguna manera

[@JohnSmith-ws7fq]

I have huge respect for Daniel Tammet. Great video!

[@juanchosworld]

Siempre lo he dicho, el Autismo en todo su espectro es un proceso de transición evolutiva humana.

[@edgarfernandofernandez7374]

Animo

[@laurolavanda1807]

Y yo ni siquiera recuerdo el numero de mi teléfono,😔

[@cecil123]

Daniel muchos muchos Dustin Hoffman scorchio paella....

[@perseoeridano4182]

👏🏻👏🏻

[@Darkneo7]

Too short, but an amazing person

[@Jesus-jf2jy]

Me apareció un anunció de vice en un vídeo de vice :v ¿kha?

[@ManicSW]

Ese Paul se ve mas viejo en conciertos

[@vissttaa]

Daniel has solved the hardest problem in life -- connecting with others. This is the bigger story, not his numerical genius.

[@JoseSanchez-zo5tb]

WTF are you talking about?

[@lightbel4602]

Pudistes haber hablado español el aprendio :V

[@ezgi212]

Aww he is the nicest person i want to be his friend tho 😄

[@ozzie-sk9dh]

Beautiful man

[@gerryfinn8646]

What number does he see when he puts on that jacket?

[@i_didnt_stutter6962]

when questioned about gambling he pretty much said betting blackjack winning tons of money would be wasting time. Wow this guys brain is on a different playing field

[@andresinchausti3841]

me gustaría que hagan una animación de calidad de como el ve las cosas, las animaciones que hay hasta ahora son pobres

[@trollero3]

también seria interesante saber si existen otras personas con la misma capacidad y si ven figuras similares. Si cada uno ve unas figuras no pasaría nada, pero si todos vieran figuras similares podría suponer una revolución.

[@christianb6720]

4:19 - "They can play chess **Better than me... Wait, no** anyone"..

[@eduardoaguirre4220]

Smartest man on the planet

[@chriswatson3464]

Don't put the headline in English if it's a Spanish program please.

[@bluePickelJuice]

I need English subtitles at least

[@roblan12]

Good Observation.

[@deirdrekiely6187]

Most of the interview is in English.

[@69JayBee]

@@deirdrekiely6187 lol I started to write 'I'd like to understand the interviewrr', and the interviewer started speaking English. I'm glad to see David is ok these days or at least in this clip.

[@ChannelMCR]

La película se basó en Kim Peek, no en Daniel, hay que informarse mejor.

[@xAlejo777]

Creo que sólo hacia referencia al síndrome y la capacidad que tenía el personaje, no a la persona de la que tomaron inspiración, hay que comprender mejor :v

[@enriquec.7057]

Maybe the signs made on cornfields he might be able to read?

[@samadhistate9637]

So is he a good mathematician? every video I've watched on Daniel they just mention his ability to memorise phi to thousands of decimal places. that's a great achievement and amazing skill, but has he been able to accomplish anything as a mathematician?

[@sthembisomabaso8283]

I've also wondered the same, because there are alot of ways to calculate except pi.

[@Dylan-it5vi]

No

[@heretherewhere7375]

I wonder if he is any good at cryptology

[@ryanburbridge]

Do they have this in a normal language?

[@adankseasonads935]

"Normal!?"

[@preben42069]

adankseason ADS lmao

[@nathanthemoneyman9191]

Joshua Foer exposed him in Moonwalking with Einstein...

[@zipporahthecushite7729]

Daniel Tammet should have been able to conduct this conversation in Spanish since he is only talking about himself and has done this type of interview many times. He claims to speak 10 languages, including Spanish, and has sold an online Spanish course for years.

[@13Knives1]

That was the book's (Moonwalking with Einstein) one misstep. I trust the scientific community vs a journalist trying to sell his own book.

[@mirzhanirkegulov3966]

@@13Knives1 "misstep" lol, did you just lift this word verbatim from Alexandra Horowitz article? There is no “scientific community” around Daniel Tammet specifically, he's not climate change to have a huge database of evidence. The only scientists who took him seriously were Simon Baron-Cohen's team, but even their claims aren't strong (for example, they accept that savants in general can develop their abilities through mnemonic techniques, see, for example, psycnet.apa.org/record/2007-13790-011). But OK, they gave him a few tests, like the one in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia#Diagnosis, Baron-Cohen claims Tammet does have synesthesia. How do you explain then that every other fMRI Tammet took with other researchers didn't show brain activation in the areas associated with synesthesia? The reason these researchers didn't write “Tammet is a fraud” in these papers is because science deals with uncertainties, so of course the author of, say, doi.org/10.1093%2Fcercor%2Fbhr236, would write something like “well it could be X, but it also could be Y, the results are tentative, more study required”. The fact is that literally every feat Tammet showed throughout his life can be easily learned. Mnemonic techniques allow you to learn arbitrarily long numbers (e.g. digits of pi), Japanese kids can multiply 5-digit numbers in a manner of seconds, there is a formula to calculate day of the week for any date in history. I wouldn't be surprised if Tammet used mnemonic techniques to memorize which color he's supposed to associate with which number. The guy's most likely a fraud, just accept it.

[@preben42069]

Mirzhan Irkegulov he can remember the shapes of tens of thousands of numbers can he not

[@camdenelliott]

The captions say English but they are in Spanish

[@brandonallen7523]

If this is true and it paints a picture threw numbers that would be everything around us and every object would be a number.witch is the same as a computer program.

[@magicalfrijoles6766]

In true Vice fashion, they don't bother to be skeptical. He's a fraud. He's using memory techniques that lots of others do better than him. He just created a fake story to make it interesting. He used to try and make a living teaching people these tricks. When he failed as a memory coach, he came up with the fake savant syndrome story. People who compete in memory competitions have known for a while about him being a fake.

[@margaretbriefs7347]

I experience 2 varieties of synesthetic combination...one being that of number/color entities and although the number 10, black to me, is a double digit number, all the others - from zero/transparent thru 9, go as follows: 1 = white 2 = blue 3 = yellow 4 = green 5 = red 6 = orange 7 = purple 8 = banana yellow and 9 = burgundy (go figure) I wonder...as opposed to my straightforward number/color association, does Daniel’s multi-faceted perception (color, texture, movement, vibration, emotion, etc.) indicate a higher IQ, or simply otherwise-directed neurons? I also experience an association between the frequencies possessed by musical notes, and their color. This presents with a REIKY-like escape of energy based on the combinations of color/sound which passes through the 8 digits (sans thumbs) of my fingers. However; whereas the color number association is a static thing, there's a random occurrence and an ebb and flow to the amount of energy and resultant euphoria that comes with my music thing. So...I "get" Daniel. I'm envious of the synesthetic 'serendipity' He must feel as he blithely skips his way down the winding path of pi. I hope his possession of synesthesia yields him happiness, and I hope he's able to experience emotion, love, and integrate them into his singularly unusual life!

[@bymmfso533]

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[@joebloe4561]

The greatest gift may be to be a friend and to have friends, but it seems like everyone wants to take advantage. Facebook friends are not real friends either. Friends don't let friends have facebook friends.

[@Markus-jt2fj]

¿Si tan listo es por qué no habla en castellano ?? Quizá podría haberlo aprendido en una semanita, como el islandés....

[@Markus-jt2fj]

@Diego Angel No me jodas, le hacen una entrevista en castellano, se supone que lo sabe hablar perfectamente, ...y ¿¿responde en inglés?? A mí no me cuadra. Algo huele mal con este tipo, y no sólo con él, sino con tantos otros que hablan 20 o 30 idiomas. No me creo a ninguno.

[@Markus-jt2fj]

@Diego Angel Pues francamente NO. Para creerlo debería monitorizar en condiciones de laboratorio todo el proceso de aprendizaje que supuestamente ha realizado. Todos estos personajes con poderes extraordinarios, cuando en vez de reírles las gracias y admirarlos por sus proezas, les pones entre la espada y la pared, suelen derrumbarse con excusas baratas, a saber: que si ese día no están concentrados, que si el cansancio, que si bla, bla, bla.

[@Markus-jt2fj]

@Diego Angel No sé, yo respeto profundamente que creas en la veracidad de este sujeto. Yo es que pienso que aquél que tiene realmente grandes capacidades mentales las aprovecha para mejorar la sociedad de algún modo, avanzar científicamente, y en definitiva, intentar mejorar nuestro mundo. En cambio, siempre que veo a un tipo alardear de sus supuestas capacidades extraordinarias en plan circense, dilapidadas en fantochadas, tiendo a sospechar lo peor.

[@ludarich9348]

Why he spoke English? If he knows a lot .... So suspicious!

[@EzraB123]

Why speak English? He claims to be fluent in Spanish and 8 other languages.

[@francais6427]

His stories also incredibly changed, im going to expose this guy in a cool breakdown vid. Sub to me brother youll find your answers.

[@deliriumbee4678]

@@francais6427 nice joke 🤡

[@tattah96]

This guy has contributed nothing to mathematics or science in general lol Just a wanna be intellectual influencer imo