We did not evolve for savant-like abilities. For that to happen, “savantism” would have to be an inheritable trait. We evolved for high intelligence, with a RIP Mike Bossy T Shirt emphasis on three things: brain plasticity, symbolic thought, and modeling the personalities of other human being. Plasticity is the basis for learning, the most basic layer of which is the neurological reshaping of the brain to get better at certain tasks. Savantism is probably an accident. It’s what happens when a developmental problem or injury keeps the brain from devoting resources to modeling other human personalities. This makes people bad at reading other people’s emotions and interacting socially, but it also frees up a lot of attention for symbolic thinking. If you do much less of some things and much more of another, your brain will devote more and more neurons and connections to what you actually do, reshaping itself accordingly. Severely autistic savants are at the extreme edge of this, but even an injury that knocks out the emotional processing and psychological modeling behavior of the brain can allow seemingly superhuman concentration on symbol manipulation.
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