Thank you for your kind words, Nicholas. Understanding autism requires a fundamental change in perspective regarding the basic operation of minds. Even though the new perspective can seem strange, the truth is that it drives powerful intuitions that make it much easier to understand not just autism, but all forms of mental experience: perception, feeling, will, imagination. I hope you find helpful material on Dark Gift.
This is brilliant, and deserves to be read by more people – I'll certainly be familiarising myself with more of your work (and Dr Grossberg's!). It aligns with my own intuitions about the causes of autism (I assume you've seen Dr Karen Parker's work on oxytocin, which no doubt plays a mediating role) and the fact that the autism spectrum (and other neurodivergent conditions, like ADHD) are diagnosed on the observable output (the behaviour) rather than the underlying mechanism (which, as you beautifully put, is a "consciousness altering condition" – I shall be using that one).
We're long overdue a consciousness-first approach to psychology!
Thank you for your kind words, Nicholas. Understanding autism requires a fundamental change in perspective regarding the basic operation of minds. Even though the new perspective can seem strange, the truth is that it drives powerful intuitions that make it much easier to understand not just autism, but all forms of mental experience: perception, feeling, will, imagination. I hope you find helpful material on Dark Gift.
This is brilliant, and deserves to be read by more people – I'll certainly be familiarising myself with more of your work (and Dr Grossberg's!). It aligns with my own intuitions about the causes of autism (I assume you've seen Dr Karen Parker's work on oxytocin, which no doubt plays a mediating role) and the fact that the autism spectrum (and other neurodivergent conditions, like ADHD) are diagnosed on the observable output (the behaviour) rather than the underlying mechanism (which, as you beautifully put, is a "consciousness altering condition" – I shall be using that one).
We're long overdue a consciousness-first approach to psychology!