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Stephen Wiltshire: The Human Camera

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Stephen Wiltshire has been called the "Human Camera." In this short excerpt from the film Beautiful Minds: A Voyage into the Brain, Wiltshire takes a helicopter journey over Rome and then draws a panoramic view of what he saw, entirely from memory.

Channel: Film & Animation
Uploaded: May 5, 2006 at 5:08 pm
Author: erg0n

Length: 00:05:17
Rating: 4.90
Views: 1285547

Tags: Stephen Wiltshire The Human Camera Rome Autistic savant

Video Comments:
dragonboy34 (January 8, 2009 at 9:44 pm)
that's one way to offend someone.
selannefan (January 8, 2009 at 6:42 am)
4 idiot savants, plus one regular idiot, you.
dragonboy34 (January 7, 2009 at 12:49 pm)
My dad's one, my twin is, one of my older brothers is and one of my nieces is...i think having 4 idiot savants in one family counts as a new world record, i won't know until i send it in to Guiness.
k3nn3h (January 6, 2009 at 8:02 pm)
fake
rock8architect (January 4, 2009 at 5:26 pm)
It's unbelievable!! : )
TeamHeavySuck (December 29, 2008 at 1:52 pm)
My Dad got me his autograph for Christmas.
redmapleleaf (December 29, 2008 at 3:35 am)
OMFG asperger's are the best geniuses on the planet.
AlanSessler (December 27, 2008 at 12:28 am)
The "mistakes" were probably just from his eyes straining to make out details from so high- like trying to count stripes on something from a distance- they can play optical illusions with your perception and seem to criss-cross, or you might find yourself counting one stripe twice or skipping a stripe. I know the power of the mind- before I knew a thing about music theory I had dreams of complete songs composed by my brain in real-time (dream time). I wish I could remember them in such detail.
N1cosoFt (December 25, 2008 at 9:21 pm)
How the hell is it possible ?
It means that an human brain is technically able to store a so complex thing in relative short period of time, and to release it as quite perfectly than a basic camera.
It's totally awesome to look at the details he drawed !
The human brain will still be a mistery of God's creation.
I'm wondering how it could be with more lifetime.
Human is unable to live more than 124 years, but what could happen if we were living some millions years ?
seldoune (December 18, 2008 at 5:58 pm)
it's called asperger's syndrom