It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strange Champs. Today, the amazing brain.

It's kind of hard to wrap your head around the future of the human brain.

Augmented intelligence, memory playback systems, downloadable skill sets.

If you think computers are powerful, just wait until science starts hacking the brain.

Can you imagine one day having a brain net where the internet is replaced by a brain net where we

send memories, emotions, and feelings on the internet? Today we'll get a glimpse of new brain

technologies that are already on the drawing board. Of course, the human brain is already

one of the most malleable, resilient systems in the universe. For example, Jason Padgett has

what neurologists call acquired savant syndrome. A traumatic brain injury turned him into a math

genius. Every day in the most ordinary daily activities, running water in the sink, making coffee he sees mathematically. He describes it in his memoir, struck by genius.

Imagine like when everything moves, instead of it looking smooth, it looks like individual, like discrete picture frames coming in.

So it's kind of like hitting pause on your TV and watching frame by frame, but in real time.

And it's so geometric.

It's just absolutely amazing.

Or watching water go down the drain, any type of spiral.

It is instead of looking like it's this smooth spiral

like it used to look like, it looks like these little straight tangent lines around the edge,

which is like a recursive form of the Pythagorean theorem. It's like taking A squared plus B squared

equals C, but then you re-input C as A in the next little triangle and B, say, for instance, always equals one,

and that creates one type of spiral.

And how those numbers vary make it spiral, you know, faster or spiral out longer or that type of thing.

So that's what you see just when you're turning on the water in the sink?

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