S2E4: Savants: When Brilliance Drops In
The Telepathy Tapes
Ky Dickens
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Last week we wondered if ideas can be downloaded. This week, we ask if talent can be, too. We meet congenital, acquired, and sudden savants whose gifts in music, math, art, and memory appear without training. A psychiatrist’s lifelong work reframes savant syndrome as brilliance to understand, not a flaw to fix. A London artist renders city skylines from a single flyover. A man wakes from a head injury seeing moving geometry and piano compositions. A woman in crisis prays and begins drawing sacred forms with professional fluency that did not exist the night before. Alongside researchers, we explore synesthesia, lowered brain filters, and a provocative possibility from a modern theorist of consciousness. If knowledge can be accessed rather than taught, are savant skills a clue that the mind is an antenna as much as a machine? And if so, what else might we be able to tune in?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, this is Kai Dickens, and you're listening to the Telepathy Tapes podcast. |
| 0:05.5 | In season one, non-speakers showed us that telepathy is possible, shattering our assumptions about the world itself. |
| 0:13.4 | This season, we're turning to others who've also been dismissed, doubted, or mocked for the ways they claim to know, see, heal, or create. What if only by listening |
| 0:23.9 | to those who've been ignored, we could unlock the deepest mysteries of who we are, where we come |
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| 1:43.3 | In last week's episode of the telepathy tapes, |
| 1:46.8 | we explored whether ideas may have a consciousness |
| 1:49.1 | and will of their own, floating out there, |
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