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From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: AI - the real problem
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Date: 14 Feb 91 12:36:26 GMT
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I said 
> An example of (exploited!) human beings with talents that do not seem
> to "match" with IQ. The cases described by Oliver Sachs are also in
> this class. "Seeing Voices" describes people with some form of damage
> to the brain; in one case a person believes that all the furniture is
> on one side of their room, but give a true description of reality when
> signing.

I must apologise for spelling Oliver Sacks' name incorrectly. Also,
the example is in "Seeing Voices", a revised edition published by
Picador in the U.K. this year (HarperPerennial edition, 1990, in the
US).

The observations were of a subject with a "massive lesion to the right
cerebral hemisphere". There is a reference to "What the Hands Reveal
About the Brain", H. Piozner, E. S. Kilma & U. Bellugi, The MIT
Press/Bradford Books, 1987.

The television program I mentioned was interesting; Stephen Wiltshire
talent was amazing; "he sometimes preferred to draw buildings with his
back towards them" having taken a good look. His drawings fetch around
1,000 pounds - 2,000 US dollars. Yet he could not spot the link
between "apple, banana, pear, orange".

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