Neurodiversity

[Doyle Saylor <djsaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings Economists,
The disability rights movement is a grassroots movement.  A new form of that
movement has arisen which is called by some neurodiversity.  Meaning that
disability rights recognizes those outside the current able bodied myth.
See this site for an example.
http://www.neurodiversity.com/

Interestingly the autistic community has raised the disability rights issue
in a more profound way than the physical access aspect of disability rights.
Arguing against the able bodied view of cognition they indicate through the
examples of autism like Blind Tom that cognition is diverse and the
framework of society is askew.

Neurodiversity is the new term invented by the Autistic community to break
the ground for a new framework of human cognition.  If one visits their
sites eventually the cause of cognitive disabled rights become clear and the
implications come across loudly.

That metaphor of the loudness of the claim references the core issue of
autism.  Language connection between human beings.  No pain is greater for
able bodied parents than the pain of distance from their autistic child.
This fundamental structure of language architecture of human interaction is
the framework by which a contemporary language using able bodied world tries
to declare human and non-human.

Of course language in this capitalist era is supplemented by technology.
Telephone communications have a gigantic market, produce gigantic amounts of
data.  See the Berkeley site on Information Technology;
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/ or more importantly,
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/

Most of what we do though in information culture is not like human language.
A painting, a movie, a radio show, how do we capture them and use them like
language?  A word spoken is a neural network in the skull.  My network is
symmetrical to your network, and we understand each other.  So an autistic
person has the neural networks.  Can do work with them but we can't read
their mind.

That sharing of minds is what we want to build with a cognitive disability
rights movement.  Minds can be powerful without speaking.  What sort of
framework would hold together this social structure.  That is what
neurodiversity seeks to put into our society.

>From an economic point of view, carrying a cellphone around touches upon
what this means.  We want to have tools to build information all the time.
As if every home, every street needs to have work done to it with
information.  To build a mesh that holds everyone for a reason well beyond
how we think language ought to work now.

Where speak a word and it's digitized, archived, worked upon, linked to
pictures at that moment, to those in conversation around that moment, in
space.  That the human being who feels something from speaking to another
person gains what they need from doing that brainwork.  Whether they are
autistic, depressed like me, schizophrenic, demented, etc.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor