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The evolution of the human brain has also created many mental illnesses. I think autism and schizophrenia may be bi-products of the natural drive to encourage more creativity and bring forth more genius. One person can change an entire culture so it is to our advantage to take the good with the bad.
In other words, there is greatness that comes from the refined side of autism and other mental illnesses. It is well reported that genius is more prevalent in the autists, manic depressants, and psychotic breaks have inspired creativity such as in the case with Van Gogh.

I think we descended along with the rest of the human lot. We are apes and all life on earth came from water originally. No wait, we all came from volcanic residue, no we came from the stars, but really we came from God.

Would you like to write a story with me?

Magnus wrote:
Would you like to write a story with me? Laughing

Orwell wrote:
Sure. We can try and integrate it into the foundation AG provided. And Jeffey's hidden identity is L Ron Hubbard.
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Sure. We can try and integrate it into the foundation AG provided. And Jeffey's hidden identity is L Ron Hubbard.

Ahh, a voice of reason...

Unfortunately we will have to make our own way, be our own scientists and have no answer key to compare our notes to.

One redeeming characteristic of autists is that we are not stagnant. We can progress to the level we desire out of sheer determination and will power.
I believe the will is from God. So, it is a sort of supernatural feat to become our highest selves.

One redeeming characteristic of autists is that we are not stagnant. We can progress to the level we desire out of sheer determination and will power.

How does one choose a point of reference that is truly external

...and if you do how does this make things better?

Not really sure I feel like putting much energy into this but here it goes anyway.



Validation through deductive reasoning like our race always has done. Nothing mysterious.


Its how our ethics are oriented, just a few pivotal assumptions keep us from either pushing eugenics full force or maybe even deciding as a race that its no longer worth living. It comes down to the reasons why we chose to do or not to do anything in our lives, just like why we decided somewhere along the lines that pushing old people down flights of stairs or adults raping babies wasn't ok; do you figure decisions like that just appear out of thin air and are appropriate? If you draw on harm to others, what specifically ordains that its a bad thing? I'm drawing on the rather obvious just to say that with the issues of the day that we actually do debate - they're blurry and just the slightest difference in a persons take on what fundamental reality is about can mean being fully on one side of the issue vs. the other. We already have enough problems with philosophical disagreements about the bigger picture and technology further frustrates this by raising the stakes and how much damage can be made by slighter and slighter missteps.

In the near future we'll likely be playing with things far more deadly that even nuclear bombs when you think about it and it means that we'll have to put the comfort of just passing the buck and agreeing to disagree aside to probe a lot deeper so that we can have ethics advanced enough to insure our survival as a race in the face of these kinds of dangers.

BTW I haven't talked to you much, don't know what your beliefs are on order and lack thereof in the universe. All the same I really hope your able to do better than a one-liner answer to this, otherwise I'm a sucker for even explaining it this far.

Where do you think we aspies and auties descended from?

Where do you think we aspies and auties descended from?

Sorry to be succinct but an external point of reference indicates some way of accessing external thinking. All the remedies you indicated are deeply interconnected with human thought that has long historical roots. I don't see any externality in them at all.

See, the shape-shifting Reptilians from Alpha Draconis are involved in a plot against humanity, and everyone knows that the super-secret Illuminati have designs for world domination.

Magnus wrote:
Orwell wrote:

Orwell wrote:
Spontaneous decay of an unnecessary trait would not be expected under non-Lamarckian theory, and Lamarckianism is rejected by every modern scientist that I know of. The principles of use/disuse and inheritance of acquired characteristics have not been borne out by empirical studies.

Magnus wrote:
What about the old tail bone? Nature is lazy and gets by with the least amount of effort so long as it works more than not.

Orwell wrote:
If it's not selected against and there is no bottleneck event, a trait will not disappear from the genome for no reason. A tail may have been an impediment to bipedalism.