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The Pattern Seekers

How Autism Drives Human Invention

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The Pattern Seekers

Von: Simon Baron-Cohen
Gesprochen von: Jonathan Cowley
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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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Contrary to what other comments suggest, the author is clearly not on the side of autism has to be cured! They maybe have listened just to the beginning. Although the middle part can be a bit boring because it's a bit repitative, the author brings it to the point how important systematic thinking for our world is. Chapter 9 is the most important chapter. It's about the question if not the individual having disabilities is the problem, but the wrong environment for the individual bringing up more struggles and so called "disabilities" than necessary. In the right environment systematic thinkers and autistic people can learn and thrive for own good. Helped me a lot to see positive sides of autism and not only focus on disabilities!

Wonderful book about the skills and positive sides of autism und systematic thinking

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I really enjoyed listening to this audio book. The author presents his hypothesis of the pattern seekers in a very interesting and informative way. I liked the structure he used to navigate what he wanted to say.
Positive side note: Contrary to what some people spread online about him, the author absolutely doesn’t think autism needs a cure.

Highly interesting, enjoyed every minute

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The author perfectly describes, how pattern seeking and inventions distinguished humans from all animals. Based on evolutionary biodiversity, today's population consist of Roughly 30% pattern seekers, 30% emphasizers and 30% balanced humans. Then there are the extreme emphasizers, easily sense the feelings of others. And finally there are extreme pattern seekers, some of them are autistic, because the genetics the same for both being peter and seeker and being autistic. Modern society begins to identify, the main and most important inventions were created by extreme pattern seekers and autistic genius. More and more companies are supporting autistic employees, benefiting of their ingenious capabilities. Brilliant audiobook! Highly recommended!

Excellent audiobook about pattern seekers forming modern world

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The author makes some harmful and hurtful statements about autistic people. Please read books about autism written by autistic authors instead!
This one is a disappointment.

Caution/ Trigger Warning

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My stepmom has worked with autistic people for decades, and I appreciate the author’s advocacy for a better support of their interests. I was also very intrigued by the book’s topic and subtitle, but once I started listening – oh dear … To our best knowledge, autism is associated with a dominant left brain hemisphere, meaning that either the right hemisphere is dysfunctional to varying degrees or that there's something out of the ordinary with the corpus callosum. The same obviously goes for the author with his self-appraising conclusions and style, his love for systematising, going so far as to speak of an "optimal brain type" (meaning a "mascularised" brain btw) after neatly categorising people’s behaviours into 5 allegedly universal brain types – a feast for the left hemisphere! It’s delusional to take this for science.

The author seriously believes that no other animal on this planet ever had a theory of mind, including not only cats and dogs but also Neanderthals, Denisovans, I guess (he doesn’t mention them), or homo erectus who had already managed to conquer the whole planet and thus to navigate the oceans. He should urgently read works like Tom Highams excellent "The World before Us". I don’t enjoy being harsh but on the other side: I haven’t come across such an utterly nonsensical, naive and clueless book/hypothesis since Barnes’s insane bicameral mind writings. I believe you have to be either incredibly stubborn or incredibly inexperienced with life forms other than yourself or genuinely stupid AND incredibly clueless to believe that homo sapiens is the only species with theory of mind on this planet, or to believe that all that is needed for invention/progress is, in essence, a defective right hemisphere.

This book is shamefully misusing evidence by selection and omission, and it’s shamelessly making up ridiculous alternative solutions to explain away contradictory evidence. Example for the latter (paraphrased): Oh, Neanderthal made it to the Greek islands. Now, there’s folks who take this as evidence for ship/boat building – alas, how childish: Ockham’s razor says they could have just swum!

Is there anything more to say? Oh yes, but I believe it’s sufficient to let this stand for itself.

In the appendix he presents three questionnaires he uses to determine one’s brain type. The questions/points are so unspecific that I would have a hard time answering them, but at least I can say that my results would not fit neatly into either of his brain types. This method is such a grotesquely gross tool that it reminds me rather of a school project than of science – but also of people with mindsets that allow them to commit genocides after dehumanising people following such kinds of categorising. This is genuinely one of the worst books I've ever read/listened to.

Pseudo-scientific nonsense

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