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The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention
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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 seventy thousand 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's 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 asks people to consider anew how society treats those who think differently.
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"Although the author pleads for understanding, this is not a self-help book but rather an account of how systemizers drive human progress."
"Many are unemployed and isolated, and the toll on their mental and physical wellbeing can be heavy."
"Readers interested in accessible and innovative looks at the human mind, such as those of Yuval Noah Harari, will be fascinated."
"Clearly Baron-Cohen is back in his wheelhouse, and it shows."
"At the same time, he cautions against speculation that people, living or dead, might be autistic."
"Baron-Cohen has a habit of making assertions of fact that I'm not sure have reached that standard of evidence yet."
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