Tag: mental health
-
Object-thinkers vs. Relation-thinkers
Recently I published my in-depth article on kinship. Shortly afterward I began reading Nelson Goodman’s Ways of Worldmaking (1978). Goodman’s hypothesis is that people create their own worlds through the use of language, and we verify these worlds through language. It recalled a discussion I had recently with a friend who’s an avid reader of…
-
A Minimal Theory of Autism (and Schizophrenia)
I have an interest in finding a minimal property of Autism. Here’s my best guess: Autism is aversion to mimicry to retain ownership of the ego. Ego is formed by loading the “intent” of the world around you – people, animals, etc. The ego then inverts memories to convince the subject that he originated his…