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The Pattern Seekers

How Autism Drives Human Invention

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The Pattern Seekers

Yazan: Simon Baron-Cohen
Seslendiren: 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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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.

Move along....

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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.

Not keen on the narration

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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.

Interesting read

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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.

Highlights the benefits of difference

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big fan of SBC but, for me, there are a few very slow chapters of this book that I feel excessively cover what is essentially a 3 step process, which is easy to grasp pretty much immediately....diluted the book, again just my opinion

mixed bag

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