07-16-2018, 08:23 AM | #21 |
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As far as high IQ is concerned, the two people I've seen proposed as examples of it are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and John Stuart Mill. Mill may have been too narrowly focused on intellectual and scholarly qualities to fit the GURPS meaning of the expression (GURPS IQ ≠ "intelligence" or IQ), but Goethe is a plausible example: poet, playwright, novelist, scientific theorist, courtier, international traveller. . . .
For Eidetic Memory, Matteo Ricci, one of the first Jesuits to visit China, seems like a good example; when I researched him for Who's Who I read about his doing impressive memory feats.
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What GURPS calls "lightning calculator" seems to be a cinematic ability. I copy edited a study of a calculating savant for Historia Mathematica. He was an illiterate black slave on an 18th century Virginia plantation. There was a case where he was given two very long numbers (I think sixteen digits or so) to multiply. He went about for a week, doing his chores, and then came in and reeled off an answer, which turned out to be correct. It took him a while! What he actually seems to have had was more like "Eidetic Memory (Aspected, Numbers, -20%)": He could actually retain both those big numbers and the intermediate products in his memory, even while distracted or sleeping.
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No human being has Sensitive Touch. Its best example is the star-nosed mole, whose nose has a pattern of innervation comparable to that of the retina, and is capable of ten times the tactile resolution of the human fingertip. That's beyond the range of possible human variation.
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Isn't transcendant a supernatural advantage?
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For Dexterity and/or {possibly} Health , Jacky Chan would have to be getting near the limit of Human potential .
Whilst the stunts He performs certainly have a high skill requirement , the sheer number of them He does flawlessly even when injured and the obvious difficulty involved would take an enormous amount of raw dexterity . The clincher would be if He also has lots of fine motor control in His fingers {say if He picks up calligraphy , model building or other such "fiddly stuff" easily} . As for the Health , given the number of injuries He has sustained , He should by all rights be a physical wreck by now , yet appears to be in better condition than the vast bulk of physically active Men half His age {and seems to have quite a lot of endurance} . Maybe not the peak of G.U.R.P.S. Health , but I'd say a potential contender .
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Also in a 12 month period he was in both the MLB All Star Game and the NFL Pro Bowl, so yeah, I totally agree with him being a DX machine. |
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