Can God love?

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Well it certainly is curious... but it would be much more curious to me if the idea that came to you was outside your realm of expertise (eg as some sort of electrical engineer)... like if I... as someone who has very little understanding of electronics... if I started drawing complex circuit diagrams off the top of my head then I'd be like 'WTF is going on here?'. Or if started writing/speaking in a foreign language that I'd had no exposure to... (and tongues doesn't count ; it would have to be a language that could be verified by others as a language, word for word)... then again, I'd be like 'WTF is going on here?'.

Not saying this is evidence for god, but supposedly we have examples of people, say, who never could play the piano, getting hit on the head, and then suddenly having great skill at the piano.  What's up with that?

Man Becomes Piano Prodigy Overnight After Suffering Brain Injury

A Denver, Colorado man became a piano genius overnight after hitting his head on the bottom of a pool.

Six years ago, then 40-year-old Derek Amato dove into the shallow end of a pool and hit his head, according to a report on the Today Show. He suffered a severe concussion, hearing and memory loss.

But a few days later he sat down at a piano for the first time and played an original composition until 2 a.m.

Yeah, as I said, that would be more curious to me... but in my mind it would still depend on the level of exposure to whatever it was prior to the intuition. So in this case had the guy ever heard a piano or played a piano... even badly... in his life before? If he had any exposure prior then since the brain is basically a sponge... constantly sampling and modelling the world... such that with the right triggers you can trigger the most distant and obscure memories... then maybe certain types of brain injury... or autism... in the case of autistic savants etc... results in different ways of tapping into this subconscious store of information? Then you're into the questions of what makes a genius? Like Mozart for instance, who could apparently play an entire opera on one hearing only, or compose one entirely in his head, hearing it in his head and with no mistakes... which sounds similar to the example you gave. Or savants seeing numbers as colours etc and being able to calculate massive sums in their head instantly etc. It sounds like it could be related to what I've been referring to as intuition... because what's the difference between normal, conscious reasoning and intuition? Conscious reasoning allows you to deliberately focus on and bring together disparate inputs, and making use of short term memory to hold contextually unrelated things to that end, which then, together, trigger new ideas/memories related to those inputs, but if that ability is impaired or you rely more on intuition, such as those annoying (read as enviable ) walking encyclopaedia types... people who instantly remember facts and figures, and trust that information even if it's just a fleeting impression... maybe there's a connection there. Conscious reasoning in that sense is kind of slower, but more trusted, whereas intuition is fast but less trusted. But perhaps in the case of brain injury etc or geniuses, there comes about a different configuration; fast and trusted intuition. Just a thought, but yeah, this is interesting.