The Pattern Seekers
How Autism Drives Human Invention
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Jonathan Cowley
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A groundbreaking argument about the link between autism and ingenuity.
Why can humans alone invent? 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. Indeed, Baron-Cohen argues that autistic people have played a key role in human progress for 70,000 years, from the first tools to the digital revolution.
How? Because the same genes that cause autism enable the pattern seeking that is essential to our species' inventiveness. 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. Ultimately, The Pattern Seekers isn't just a new theory of human civilization, but a call to consider anew how society treats those who think differently.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-04-21
Awful reading, fascinating text
The narration of this audiobook is mechanical and stilted.
The content is interesting. It is a sham that charts and appendices are not provided in a pdf.
A poor audiobook. I may well have to buy this to do the content justice.
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- Anonymous User
- 18-09-24
Such an interesting topic but strange narration style
I find this topic really interesting and was excited to find it as an audio book. I wondered however if the narrator was actually an AI - there is some intonation but it's almost always in the wrong place or on the wrong word, as if the narrator did not truly understand what the words meant or how they fitted together. There was also a moment that made me giggle where the slightly monotone narrator mentions an autistic child who spoke in a monotone voice and then has to adjust their voice to sound like the child and does somehow manage to become a little more monotone than they already are - I say this as someone who is neurodivergent and may also speak in a monotone way
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- Anonymous User
- 01-12-23
Couldn’t get past the voice
Really sorry Simon. I’m sure your book has interesting content but had to drop by Chapter 2 due to the narration style…like every sentence had an exclamation mark at the end. Wore me down.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-09-24
Highlights the benefits of difference
This book was bitter sweet for having two Autistic children myself.
The overall message is great, breaking down how Neurodiverse identify, analyse and interact with their world, the problem really is that it was all said within a few chapters and therefore adding nothing of real substance once the message was clear.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-02-22
Amazing Insight
This was such an interesting insight into the different brain types. It was so engaging and useful. It has really helped me to understand my daughter.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-11-23
Move along....
There are so many other books to read or listen to, I have decided to drop this one in the middle. If you have ever picked up a book or a lecture on neuroscience, you will very easily notice holes in author's argumentation.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-05-22
Can't listen to this narrator
Excellent book but the narration is awful, the guy speaks every sentence with the same cadence and inflection, and i found it impossible to focus on the content as i just wanted it to end. Switched to the written format and highly recommend. Please though, stay away from anything narrated by Jonathan Cowley
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- Anonymous User
- 15-08-23
Not keen on the narration
I really wanted to listen to this book but the style of the narration stopped me getting further than the first couple of chapters. The speed and tone felt very robotic and this made it hard for me to take in the information.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-11-24
Interesting read
I learned a lot about myself, which is why I bought the book in the first place. The information was well presented and comprehensive. This didn't have the kind of bias against autism other books I've read have (sadly) had, but went instead into the details of how it's possibly formed, how it affects people's lives in both good and challenging ways, and gave me personally a lot of tools to manage everyday life as an autistic adult.
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- R. Young
- 30-09-24
Fascinating Research on Neurodivergence
Through Audible, I listened for free, but I would have been happy to pay. I work with neurodivergent adults, and the content of this book helped me to understand my clients better.
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