An essay outlining the autistic condition and discussing what it can teach us about consciousness
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Table of Contents
- Introduction.
- Part 1.
- Autism: A psychiatric condition.
- The parents of the autistic child.
- Part 2.
- Philosophers of the mind and psychologists.
- The ability to hypothesize what another person is thinking.
- Evidence collected over recent decades.
- Why autistic children are mentally unconscious.
- Conclusion.
- Bibliography.
Abstract
Many philosophers (e.g. Chalmers, Dennett, Crick, Blackmore, Penrose) have entered onto the psychological field and become interested in consciousness. Hence thinkers like Chalmers et al are happy to be called philosophers of the mind. Thinkers such as these tend to focus on questions such as what does it feel like to be a bat? And Why do we have emotional subjective experiences at all? Personally, I immersed myself in Jungian analytical psychology in order to attain psychological knowledge and perspective. Whilst I am no longer a Jungian I maintain some of what I learned from my study in that field… one of which is the logic of looking into what is not rational, not normal and not healthy. The reason why I maintain this position is because… in order to determine what is rational, is normal and is healthy we need contrast, comparison.
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