Re: environmental impact: autism

[Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx>]

Greetings Economists,
On Jun 21, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Jim Devine wrote:

> cure autism über alles rather than respecting
> those who have it.
Doyle;
The issue is connection and with the comment curebee you bring up  
language connection.  A curebee is asserting that the connection  
process that Autism violates is sacramental to how things work.  I  
connect this up to a foundation process in computing called  
interaction.  That was created (see the formation of the internet  
concept in relation to interactivity concepts) as a certainty of the  
value of computing that interaction facilitated social control.   
Computing could replace clerks who computed with automation that  
included interaction between content provided by people in data streams  
to computers that can manage information mathematically correctly and  
with growing power.

Human interaction is based upon language as the center of the process  
though it seems clarity about what language does, and what humans are  
without language is still being sorted out.  The earliest critique I  
saw of this computing process was of the potential offered in parallel  
processing in super computers over Von Neumann architectures.  But that  
'writing' parallel processes was not generally easy or applicable to  
every day life.  Though as time passed the visual aspects of parallel  
processing gained some degree of development that gradually has grown  
important in public markets like video games.

Autism demonstrates how much more mental power can come out if language  
demands are relaxed on human brains.  And re-mapping demonstrates how  
cognition in human brains is a lot more plastic than the DNA crowd  
might suggest.  At any rate, connection by language is going to get  
re-built as we use the concept of interaction in computing in a more  
and more networked sense of the information stream.  See IBM's new  
offering called  
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/gsdod/solutiondetails.do? 
solutionId=29327&lc=en

Wikipedia here for what stream processing is:   
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_processing
Doyle