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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without ThinkingYet they saw none of it. Why? 4. A Man, a Woman, and a Light Switch The classic model for understanding what it means to lose the ability to mind-read is the condition of autism. When someone is autistic, he or she is, in the words of the British psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen, БЂњmind-blind.БЂ«People with autism find it difficult, if not impossible, to do all of the things that IБЂ™ve been describing so far as natural and automatic human processes. They have difficulty interpreting nonverbal cues, such as gestures and facial expressions or putting themselves inside someone elseБЂ™s head or drawing understanding from anything other than the literal meaning of words. Their first-impression apparatus is fundamentally disabled, and the way that people with autism see the world gives us a very good sense of what happens when our mind-reading faculties fail. One of the countryБЂ™s leading experts on autism is a man named Ami Klin. Klin teaches at Yale UniversityБЂ™s Child Study Center in New Haven, where he has a patient whom he has been studying for many years whom IБЂ™ll call Peter ...» | Код для вставки книги в блог HTML
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