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The Pattern Seekers
- How Autism Drives Human Invention
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A groundbreaking argument about the link between autism and ingenuity.
Why can humans alone invent? 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 70,000 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' 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 a call to consider anew how society treats those who think differently.
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-09-23
Informative
amazing book......I recommend this book for anyone who has people in their lives with ASD. World needed all kinds of brain's, and will always do.
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- Rosh709
- 07-04-23
Brilliant
Really insightful. I could connect the dots from my work experience with people on spectrum.
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- Suraj K.
- 16-10-22
Good book, gives a different perspective
The content of the book is great, it is interesting to learn about different brain types.
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