On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 9:53:43 AM UTC-4, David Nyman wrote: > > On 16 July 2014 14:02, Craig Weinberg <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > but I would say it is very likely that having mindreading-empathy deficits >> on the autistic spectrum would tend to result in a strong bias against >> idealism, panpsychism, free will, or the hard problem of consciousness. > > > I must say I've often wondered about this very thing in the course of some > online discussions. However I try not to fall prey too readily to any > assumption of this sort, to at least temper any tendency on my part to > debate the person rather than the argument. >
I want to agree, and it is important to temper tendencies to debate the person, but I think that this is one case where debating someone with low theory of mind skills is like debating about color with someone who is blind. They just have no possibility of understanding what the discussion is about, and (because of their low theory of mind skills) cannot tell the difference between a different perspective from their own and being wrong (stupid, Dualist, Solipsist, etc). > David > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
