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[Nick Jones <nj8@ntlworld.com>]

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Yes, I think that may be true ...  reading Sacks's account of Steven 
Wiltshire recently, I was struck by how it might be susceptible to a 
Kantian analysis - a breakdown in synthesis?

It's difficult to relate these aspects of autism to the more familiar 
'mindblindness' analysis ...

best
Nick Jones

kate whitaker wrote:
> "...The fact that
> we don't ordinarily notice these features of the world around us shows 
> that
> there must be some mechanism which filters them out of conscious 
> experience."
>
> People on the Autistic spectrum are often fascinated or obessive about 
> small details and often, as a result, find the world as a whole 
> completely bewildering - if you notice every small thing, identifying 
> whole systems would be a large task. Maybe they lack this filtering 
> mechanism? Perhaps our underlying ability to categorise is also 
> involved in this hypothesis?


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