I found this one interesting
I found this one interesting
Hi all.
I'm typing this whilst being held on a tel. call wait to speak to a real person - 25 minutes at present and being told it will be another 14!
I would like to share some further thoughts on this topic whilst listening to the canned Beethoven on the line...
As I understand it the likelihood is - brief interlude as call is answered! - that for neurotypical people the "fast wiring" in the brain that connects the frontal lobe and social centres maybe means that they are much more likely to make decisions based upon in-group/out group behaviour.
Without that fast wiring (maybe one might even call it a "short circuit" from a neurodiverent perspective - there is a lot more effort required to make a decision about with whom and what ideas one associates oneself...
So, autistic people rely on deliberate" bottom-up" processing rather than "top-down" social heuristics.
This is not just on my personal experience and observations - this is backed by hard science in the form of behavioural data. Autisitic people are better at making significantly more consistent, rational choices. Albeit at quite a lot of effort - literally using more energy to do so.- with the scientific data showing more time required to come to a decision and being prone to what is termed "choice paralysis".
So, neurotypical brains are designed to protect the group at all costs - even if it involves "bending" the truth. The neurodivergent brain "lacks" this mechanism - so as a consequence it "benefits" from a more egalitarian, rule bound and bias resistant world-view.
Interesting indeed.
Phased
Hi all.
I'm typing this whilst being held on a tel. call wait to speak to a real person - 25 minutes at present and being told it will be another 14!
I would like to share some further thoughts on this topic whilst listening to the canned Beethoven on the line...
As I understand it the likelihood is - brief interlude as call is answered! - that for neurotypical people the "fast wiring" in the brain that connects the frontal lobe and social centres maybe means that they are much more likely to make decisions based upon in-group/out group behaviour.
Without that fast wiring (maybe one might even call it a "short circuit" from a neurodiverent perspective - there is a lot more effort required to make a decision about with whom and what ideas one associates oneself...
So, autistic people rely on deliberate" bottom-up" processing rather than "top-down" social heuristics.
This is not just on my personal experience and observations - this is backed by hard science in the form of behavioural data. Autisitic people are better at making significantly more consistent, rational choices. Albeit at quite a lot of effort - literally using more energy to do so.- with the scientific data showing more time required to come to a decision and being prone to what is termed "choice paralysis".
So, neurotypical brains are designed to protect the group at all costs - even if it involves "bending" the truth. The neurodivergent brain "lacks" this mechanism - so as a consequence it "benefits" from a more egalitarian, rule bound and bias resistant world-view.
Interesting indeed.
Phased
I think there's another side to descision making and thats not feeling the need to take a position on something. I've often been asked about something that's more of a position than a choice, a choice is something like would you like a cup of tea, or go to the cinema, a position is where you stand on something moral or political, something like that.
There are a few things I don't feel the need to take a position with and I get really cross with people who want me to take a position, they usually get cross with me too, because a they see it I'm refusing to play, I'm refusing to take a side, to be in a group or out of one and into another. I guess I'm also showing that it's not always nessercary to have a fixed opinion or any opinion at all on something, particularly if it dosen't concern me that much, this upsets multiple applecarts.
I've been told not chosing a side is refusing to choose, refusing to decide and that it shows I have a poor desicion making process. I don't, I've just learned that I don't always have to have one and often my feelings will be pretty meaningless, like I don't care who wins th world cup, I don't like football, so I have no skin in the game, so why should I want or need to choose?
