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To: combjelly who wrote (974563)

10/23/2016 1:09:11 AM

From: koan

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That is an interesting analysis. I have been moving in that direction as well. Science today has shown how certain damage to the left brain can elicit tremendous savant capabilities. So it is only logical that we all possess savant capabilities. The objective of the brain is for the human organism to survive, not cognitive excellence.

And in order to do that it actually has to pare down the brains capabilities so that we can focus on the objective of surviving. And when you eliminate the ability to pare things down for survival purposes, which is the case in various forms of autism and Asperger's, often savant capabilities emerge.

This sort of lends itself to a many minds interpretation. So let me throw in another thought. There's a book you should read called:" the evolution of consciousness". By a fellow named Robert Ornstein.

I have been quoting this guy for 50 years and he teaches at Stanford and UC medical school, has published many books on the mind as a world authority on the mind.

He says that the brain is actually many minds. He calls them simpletons. So that every time we talk, we can never be sure which mind is doing the talking. He also believes that our conscious mind is actually pretty weak, and that we have these unconscious minds that do most of the thinking.

His real specialty is the bicameral mind. He describes the left brain has being involved in sequential logic. He describes the right brain as being involved in the simultaneous juxtapositioning of things.

So in that sense, we all are sort of HFA's.

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I didn't know HFA folks could do that-lol?

Urban myth. It has been argued that Einstein couldn't possibly have been on the spectrum because he told jokes. Which is a stupid argument if you know anything about his life. The signs are very obvious.

Think about it, HFAs are pre-wired for research. In fact, most scientists and engineers are usually somewhere on the spectrum, although not as far out as to get the label of HFA. The differences between a HFA and NTs become pretty obvious to the HFA pretty early in life.

So almost all of them study NTs. It is pretty obvious that use of humor is valuable if you want to pass as normal. And humor, especially involving puns and word play is not that hard.

Now ask yourself, why are the works of Lewis Carroll so popular for those on the spectrum?

The way he plays with language.

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