A man who has become able to hand-paint fractals by changing the appearance of the world

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When you try to cut off a cauliflower, there is a figure that makes the whole cauliflower small. Even if it cuts even smaller, it will continue to be repeated. It has such characteristicsfractalis. It seems that there are some men drawn by hand.

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He is an associate professor of philosophy and psychology at the University of Missouri Neurodynamics LaboratoryBerit BrogaardIs studying a man named "JP".


JP underwent assault of kicking beating in 2002, injured kidney bleeding and head injury. As a result, heSynesthesiaWhenSavan's syndromeI learned. The treated doctor did not notice, but in this case the appearance of the world of JP was completely different from that before that. Specifically, the boundary of the object is not smooth, and the movement of things is no longer smooth. For example, it seems that someone is repeatedly playing back images and pausing, and the flow in the world has become very fast. Even more surprisingly, JP saw a clear fractal image visible.

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In the face of a new world, JP chooses to draw from the world and withdraws in the apartment for three years, unless absolutely necessary. Through a completely isolated three years, JP chooses the way to make everyone understand by drawing out what they are seeing.

In this way he just kept drawing pencils, ruler, compass alone. It was a beautiful fractal figure drawn by JP, but the person himself hand-drawn such an image was the world's first case, I did not even know that he will receive an award at this later. On the contrary, he seems to have continued to draw without knowing that what he is drawing now is "what he saw".

Fractal that JP actually drawn.

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In addition to the line drawn with a pen, the signature by the person in the lower right is also included.

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A year later, a mathematician came to the shop where JP was a store clerk. He looked at the picture drawn by JP and encouraged him to go to the mathematics course of the university. In response to this recommendation JP managed to pass the high school math test somehow. So, I learned the basic parts to explain what I saw to people with mathematical terms.

Mr. Brogaard was a journalist living in New York and, after all, received a introduction to Maureen Seaberg with a shared feeling and met JP. Brogaard, who realized how special JP is, decided to conduct case studies at once.

From the description about what he saw, Brogaard speculated that JP is damaged by areas of the brain that are responsible for "movement" and "boundary". In further research, when JP is depicting a fractal, we found that the left brain is used exclusively. Also, it turned out that the visual cortex of the brain was not involved at all in creating a visual image. At this time, the part of the temporal lobe usually associated with memory was not activated either.

Brogaard sees that the results of this research may indicate that visual features and visuals can be generated in regions other than brain memory and visual cortex.