Autism and the Two Kinds of Empathy (Robert Wright & Simon Baron-Cohen)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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The Importance of Pattern Seeking in the Social World
The ability to get engrossed in the task of pattern seeking and other cognitive tasks. That can be lead to great productivity that and difficulty with or, or at least failure to focus so much on like what other people may be thinking or feeling. Is there some kind of trade off there? You know, social relationships are happening in real time. So you might need different processes in the brain to be able to anticipate what might be about to happen when it comes to social relationships adapt very quickly.
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