Is There a Difference Between a Dog and a Cat?

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The bat has got the echolocation. They can actually visualize the sound. And I actually have some information of visual thinking of blind people and learn how to echolocate, like kind of like a bat. So it's a sensory based world, what it is, not a word based world. Even though the brain is small, they're like the miniature electronic circuits. The neurons are smaller and you're cramming more in there. You get a lot of processor power in a small brain.

Temple Grandin was born in 1947 at a time when words like neurodivergent and neurotypical had yet to enter the lexicon, at a time when autism was not well understood, and since she didn’t develop speech until much later than most children she might have led a much different life if it hadn’t been for people around her who worked very hard to open up a space for her to thrive and explore her talents and abilities. In this episode we discuss all that as well as her latest book, Visual Thinking, all about three distinct ways that human brains create human minds to make sense of the world outside of their skulls.