The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention Baron-Cohen Simon
The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention Baron-Cohen Simon A groundbreaking argument about the link between autism and ingenuityWhy can humans alone invent? Indeed, Baron-Cohen argues…
Specifikacia The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention Baron-Cohen Simon
The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention Baron-Cohen Simon
A groundbreaking argument about the link between autism and ingenuityWhy can humans alone invent? Indeed, Baron-Cohen argues that autistic people have played a key role in human progress for seventy thousand years, from the first tools to the digital revolution. How? In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autism is as crucial to our creative and cultural history as the mastery of fire.
However, these abilities exact a great cost on autistic people, including social and often medical challenges, so Baron-Cohen calls on us to support and celebrate autistic people in both their disabilities and their triumphs. Because the same genes that cause autism enable the pattern seeking that is essential to our species's inventiveness. Ultimately, The Pattern Seekers isn't just a new theory of human civilization, but a