It seems plausible, because you are not, and never will be, aware of just how limited your visual perception is.
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It seems plausible for the *exact same reason* that a man with Anton's Blindness will find it plausible he can see without any eyes.
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The appeal of the Sherlock Scan is an example of the anosognosia that is sentience.
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I guarantee some white guy will jump in and yell "but Kim Peek!" or such. Exactly.
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It's really not worth pointing out that savant abilities do not occur coincident with median abilities.
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A savant is plausible. A savant with several related expressions, is plausible. Both occur, and are well documented.
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Omni-savant abilities, with no perceptible tradeoff between them? Doesn't occur.
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It seemed plausible to Doyle that the savant abilities he'd seen studied by the Royal Society, could occur in a single person.
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the "Sherlock scan" is a trope from the BBC's Sherlock, not really in the original canon
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in the stories it's pointed out Watson sees the same number of details in the same time that Holmes does
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Holmes just ascribes significance to them Watson doesn't
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"You see, Watson, but you do not observe"
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