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From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 1:03 PM
Subject: RE: point of memetic saturation
> The author said one of the problems of people with autism is how they
define
> things. So, for example, if they encounter a poodle with a red collar on,
> and someone tells them that is a dog, then they accept a poodle with a red
> collar as a dog, but only a poodle with a red collar. If they then see
> another breed of dog, or even a poodle with a different colour collar on,
> they will not recognise it as a dog. The author made an analogy to a
tree,
> and how normal people can associate and collate lots of variation within a
> category like 'dog', resulting in large central branches with offshoots,
> whereas autistic people cannot do this, and as such have multitudes of
very
> thing branches. In this sense, then perhaps autistic people do indeed
have
> some kind of information overload- either that or they are allergic to
other
> people's memes!
<< Describing autism as an allergy to info of other people !!
Far out a good idea !!
But some kind of information-overload !?
Strange, is that not wrong put !?
If they see a poodle with a red collar as a dog and a poodle with a yellow
collar as ' no- dog ' is that an overload of information !?
It seems to me a very simple way of communication, one idea >< one word !
The language of an autistic would be quit ' direct ', there would be no
place for telling stories, no place to lie, not really place for '
communication '
either but they seem very happy to me, though !
Regards,
Kenneth
(I am, because we are)
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