_The r-word_ (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
<Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
> You don't have to be a savant to do this particular parlor trick.

True. But nobody taught or could teach that to the twins and they
don't have the intellectual capacity to have figured it out for
themselves. Like, these women can just about count to ten. What's
interesting about such otherly-intelligenced people is not that no one
else can do what they can do, but that they can do what they do
without having any concept of how it's done, with no appreciation of
what they're doing, having had no training or teaching of any kind,
and often, they are able to do very little else. The twins, aside from
their savantism, are, standardly, the intellectual equivalents of
eight-year-olds.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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