Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama
That heightened, inflexible sense of justice that Autistics often have, that’s an extra organ, another region of the brain that does the actuarial stuff, and plans for the future, a thing that Autistics have and that Humankind needs but has almost lost.
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Show threadGoiterzan/Amygdalai LamaApr 9
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if you have it, you think/know that there are real life reasons to behave. This is what people seem to think when they say that without God, there is no reason to behave, people saying that seem to see no actual, real life reason to behave, which, this Autistic found reasons in psychology and evolution, that human behaviour in this generation is the environment the next generation must adapt to and so bad behaviour is endlessly cumulative, for me that’s a real life reason - while lacking the actuarial sense, most people speak as if “Human Nature,” never changes, so they don’t have this reason.
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I think that’s what’s meant by the actuarial sense, which, so far the only place I’ve ever seen the word was in #TheDawnOfEverything which made no mention of neurodiversity, and mentioned this as a difference between some Turtle Islanders in the 16th. century and the Euro invaders (leading to my genetic drift theory).
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Show threadGoiterzan/Amygdalai LamaApr 9
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Please note that this is a conversation in which punishment is simply assault or some such, part of the bad behaviour, probably the majority of the bad behaviour. This is not a normal NT moral conversation leading to punishment, my actuarial sense finds punishment to be the root of all bad behaviour, not a prophylaxis for it, but a direct cause of bad behaviour. The actuarial reasons not to attack people randomly are the same reasons why not to attack them morally and systematically either, again, because the next generation must adapt to this systemic abuse and so it only grows.
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It’s what my silly online name is meant to convey, punishment hurts society, and the future. It’s part of the problem, not of the solution.
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Show threadGoiterzan/Amygdalai LamaApr 9
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Show threadGoiterzan/Amygdalai LamaApr 9
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2026 here on Turtle Island and this idiot is still trying to “contribute to science”
Show threadGoiterzan/Amygdalai LamaApr 10
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so we probably all had the super smell like a lot of critters, but living in our own self made environment has made it less of a liability to lose it so many have. Made this point last week about some Sapolsky stuff, that super senses and savantisms are long evolved traits in the animals
we find them in, so they are in humans too, regardless they have perhaps gotten much more rare today.
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And we replaced our super smell by using the noses of dogs and such where possible, didn’t we? That’s one reason it’s not such a lethal deficit for modern humans, we can buy that, we can keep dogs.
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I think they need to keep Autistics for the same reasons, for the super actuarial sense they have mostly lost. Many people think there were #ND people advising the kings of the past, that they did indeed avail themselves of the resource of Autistic thinking.
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But to be NT human is not a static thing, they’re losing the memory that they need us, if they saw a resource in the past, they don’t talk like they see one during times like these, maybe anymore, if it’s a matter of evolution. 😬💜
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Show threadBodhi 心Apr 9
@punishmenthurts @autistics I have this! I don’t know if I am #actuallyautistic but I have this. And I agree it is needed but not yet lost.
Show threadGoiterzan/Amygdalai LamaApr 9
@bodhipaine 💜