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Re:Noisy brain may underlie some of autism's sensory features by wegfawefgawefg on Friday January 19, 2024 @03:05AM (#39052854)
im with you but many people really would choose the blue pill. They just dont want to know.

I was surprised by this when in my high school class the teacher (a doctor) asked the students if they would like to be accutely aware of an unfixable chronic brain impairment (if i recall it was memory impairment in this case). To my horror almost everyone said no.

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Re:Noisy brain may underlie some of autism's sensory features by growingkittens on Friday January 19, 2024 @03:32PM (#39060727)
Actually being trapped in a non-functioning mind or body without knowing the problem would change many minds. Don't read too much into an offhand high school thought experiment.
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Re:Noisy brain may underlie some of autism's sensory features by wegfawefgawefg on Saturday January 20, 2024 @10:21AM (#39068424)
If anything, as I have interacted with more and more neurotypical people as I have aged, I believe this thought experiment is more representative of the average population than I used to, and more informative.
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Re:Noisy brain may underlie some of autism's sensory features by growingkittens on Sunday January 21, 2024 @04:20PM (#39083203)
It's still a thought experiment. People in general lack imagination outside of the range of their experience. Imagination is a skill that has to be practiced or lost.
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