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From: koan	6/8/2006 7:45:20 PM
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Charters and LC, the conversation on dyslexia is interesting in that science is uncovering, at last, how the mind really works. One of my degrees is in experimental psychology and I learned little about people, but a ton about rats and statistics. gg Time had a very revealing article on autism (I worked with autistic kids at Sanford in my youth)last week and made me think of some very important ideas about the different thinking of liberals and conservatives. One of my best friends when I was younger was Richard K. Nelson (google him). His book "the Island Within" is compared to Waldon Pond. Many of us feel Dick was the most interesting and enlightened man we ever knew. Dick, who has a PHD in anthropology and because of his prolific writing and spellbinding teaching style can teach pretty much wherever he wants, had trouble with a simple statistics course. Dick, as was I, was a c student in high school and probably could not have gotten into most universities if the U of wisconson at the time didn't have a policy that all residents could go there regardless of grades. Yet his writing is beautiful and fluid, his thinking clear and his knowledge remarkable. Einstein was probably partly autistic. Most savants are either autistic or have injury to their left frontal lobe. I have a theory as to why this is so. But more importantly, what they found in autism is that the neurons were thicker in the local areas, but there was not very good communication between the different areas of the brain, large frontal lobe (surprisingly) and smaller corpus callosum. Women have a larger corpus callosum than men. The thicker the corpus callosum the better the communication between the two hemispheres. The fact we are all a composit of differing functioning areas of the brain and differing communications between the many areas of SPECIFIC brain functioning tells me we need to throw the Stanford Benit out the window; and SAT's while we are at it. We are each truly unique in how we process information. I do believe the minds primary goal is survival and not intellectual gymnastics, and as such creating a reality and figuring out how to safely negotiate through this reality is priority one. The amazing thinking put forth by the Einstein's of the world is most likely in all of us as witnessed by watching "idiot savants" performing impossible intellectual feats. Like learning the Icelandic language in one week just by listening to it, or flying over a city and then drawing it correctly in 4 hours including the exact number of windows in each building---and the real rain man. This is why working together to solve problems works best. we can cover each persons intellectual blind spots and deficits.

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