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October 26, 2006
Whoa
There's really no way to describe how weird, awesome, scary, and hopeful this story is. In short, Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, has remapped his own brain. And now he can talk again.
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Whoa, that's what RFK Jr has, right?
Posted by: tps12 | Oct 26, 2006 4:42:51 PM
thanks for linking to this Ezra!
Posted by: andrew | Oct 26, 2006 5:41:55 PM
This just shows that communist, socialistic programs like single-payer health insurance is unnecessary! If Scott Adams can cure himself, it just goes to show that all those uninsured sick people could, too, if they wanted to!
/Fred Jones
Posted by: Constantine | Oct 26, 2006 6:45:39 PM
This is an amazing story I wouldn't have come across otherwise. Thank you for posting it.
Posted by: cms | Oct 26, 2006 6:54:25 PM
While this sounds very cool, I do want to add the disclaimer that Scott Adams is very very very weird. Reading any of his books show some of his wacky ideas (I don't want to get into details, but as a fan it was rather depressing).
Now if this is an amazing triumph, yeay. But I'd really like to see a medical journal article first about the first ever re-mapping of your own brain.
Posted by: Tony v | Oct 26, 2006 7:25:15 PM
But I'd really like to see a medical journal article first about the first ever re-mapping of your own brain.
My assumption was that this was much like a stroke victim re-teaching himself how to function again. Not the first ever event of remapping one's brain, though, according to Adams' physician, perhaps the first time such a method was used for Adams' particular condition.
Posted by: Constantine | Oct 26, 2006 7:43:31 PM
I don't know what really happened, and Scott doesn't either. 48 hours strikes me as too fast to change neural pathways, if that is what happened. But I certainly don't know much about neurology. If that is the relevant science. But how it happened only matters if it can help others, or keep Scott talking.
It is really really neat. Admirable and amazing. Way cool.
Posted by: bob mcmanus | Oct 26, 2006 8:43:22 PM
Scott Adams is very very very weird
What Tony said. Adams is, among other things, an evolution denier.
This is an interesting report, but so far an unsubstantiated one. Did Adams really have the condition he thought he had? While I congratulate him on apparently overcoming a serious speech impediment, I doubt this is a medical breakthrough.
Posted by: Zeno | Oct 26, 2006 9:02:50 PM
Part of what's cool about this is Adams getting better.
The other part is, if he can do it, maybe other people with this problem can too.
Posted by: Molly, NYC | Oct 26, 2006 9:06:27 PM
