Re: Cool visual illusion


feedbackdroids wrote:
> JGCASEY wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Yeah, yeah.
> > >
> > > "Wallah", of course, is a common term used by fakirs
> > > [uhhh, mgicians], when executing their stunts. John
> > > is just a bad speller ;-)
> >
> > Thanks to the spell checker I think I am improving :)
> >
> > It interests me that some people would use the ability
> > to remember the unintuitive spelling of a word as a
> > measure of intelligence. Yet I always got high marks
> > for my story telling while others, with perfect spelling,
> > couldn't think up a story to tell. I even know someone
> > who suffers from Aspergers who could remember how to
> > spell words perfectly long before the age most of us
> > learn to read. Yet again has no imagination or the
> > ability for analytical thinking at all.
> >
> > I remember an old English teacher who complained that
> > the editorial in his Christian group newsletter had
> > spelling mistakes and poor grammar. I asked him what
> > the editorial was about, he couldn't remember that,
> > only that it had mistakes that really annoyed him.
> >
> > Just like people who suffer from dyslexia I just have
> > to learn to live with my memory defect I guess.
> >
>
>
> If you google "wallah" and "magic", you'll find lots of hits. But Wolf
> and Lester are probably correct, in that it's an anglicization of some
> french word. It will also help if you hit your top-hat with your magic
> wand next time you say it.
>
> Speaking of dyslexia, a friend of mine has 2 [count'em two] PhDs, and
> he says he's dyslexic. He has a phenomenal memory for factoids [uh,
> facts], but poor ability to follow a sequential verbal description for
> more than a few seconds. And, as it turns out, there is an article in
> the latest issue of Scientific American mag about a savant with
> significant brain abnormalities, but who has an almost photographic
> memory, including of things he heard just once 40 years ago, etc. He
> also has a difficult time with sequential thinking.

I believe you - my brothers dyslexic and has a double first in
engineering. I remember reading somewhere that theres a
link between visual spatial reasoning and dyslexia... sort
of, if you reason/think in 3D, it can be difficult to arrange
that 3D idea into sequential liniar pattern (sort of thing!!)
Hmmm...more on this later,
Bye,
N.

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