so where's my Nobel?

[mellowtigger]

While I do believe that autism represents a different kind of human rather than just an inferior human, I make no attempt to hide the fact that evolution is messy business. Change requires experimentation, and experimentation in this context means that there will be casualties. For every creature in history that benefited from sprouting effective

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[bitterlawngnome]

The latest research on mirror neurons is fascinating but such a tease ... it doesn't (yet) explain much of anything. But damn is it interesting.

[otterlover01]

I think it will happen like it did with the concepts of "race" and "homosexuality". Race is no longer a valid concept in Biological Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology since it has been demonstrated at nauseaem and with DNA hybridization that it is just a kind of illusory concept fixated by cultural, nor biological traits. "Homosexuality" as a concept is rapidly following the same fate as it is more and more clear that it is part of a sexuality continuum. That seems to be the way Nature usually presents things, in gradients and continuums, we are just beginning to understand that. L.

[fingertrouble]

re your moment: I spent ages describing the 'dance' to my partner John, it makes perfect sense to me, scientifically and otherwise; that there isn't a happily understandable pattern but there is a motion of the universe that everything spins around; and yes it's interconnected, going in and out of phase providing those moments of very brief understanding and calm as you briefly 'sync'. I don't really think I really could explain it that well though.

Ditto autism - provoked by a previous post of yours I mentioned autism and was surprised he'd never heard of it. Cue ages trying to explain and him saying 'well that sounds like me' and me getting a feeling I'd failed (although very mildly he might be correct, as myself - I wonder if everyone is in degrees?). And yes my father is an engineer, I get on well with engineers...they seem to be obsessed with alternative ways of thinking and realities.