Some producers of great art are autistic.

The observers of such works declare them to be high calibre.

Does anyone see a contradiction here?

BOfL

On Apr 3, 11:51 pm, "brian fletcher" gmail.com> wrote:

The art is of high caliber because they're autistic? Yes then that
would be bullshit. Art should be judged on it's artistic value alone
unless it's some kind of program to encourage the "disadvantaged".

"Making judgments of value requires a basis for criticism. At the
simplest level, a way to determine whether the impact of the object on
the senses meets the criteria to be considered art, is whether it...

On Apr 3, 8:51 pm, "brian fletcher" gmail.com> wrote:

If some blind people can devote much of the visual cortex, not being
used by vision, to musical skills and creativity, sort of an
appropriation of unused but functioning brain tissue, then autism may
produce such a condition. Maybe the condition promotes Synesthesia
which is a neurologically-based phenomenon in which stimulation of one
sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary
experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. In one common
form of synesthesia, known as grapheme -> color synesthesia, letters
or numbers are perceived as inherently colored, while in ordinal
linguistic personification, numbers, days of the week and months of
the year evoke personalities.

On Apr 4, 12:52 am, Immortalist yahoo.com> wrote:

On Apr 3, 9:58 pm, turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:

On Apr 4, 1:20 am, Immortalist yahoo.com> wrote:

On Apr 3, 10:26 pm, turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:

re: my polyannish perception re statistical deviation

I'll offer an off the wall alternative.

I think y'all have covered concentration in your semi decipherable
colloquy, haven't you?

Obviously the brain workings of autistics etal are not (by normative
or common definition) the norm.

And the exceptionally talented artist, musician, jigsaw puzzle sage et
al aren't the norm.

Bobby Paranoia Fisher, the best chess ...

So-called "idiot-savants" with "pinch" brains...

The point here is not hard to get, & I suppose everybody has
considered the following.

Although, apparently somebody is apparently
offended by such rationalization &
condescension.

Nevertheless:

What if that autism & other neurological anomalies are
"mutations" of tremendous importance to the survival of human
future ?

On Apr 3, 11:51 pm, "brian fletcher" gmail.com> wrote:

Eye always thought beauty was in the eye of the beer-holder. ;-)

On Apr 3, 11:51 pm, "brian fletcher" gmail.com> wrote:

An acquaintance of mine just wrote:
http://www.amazon.com/More-Self-than-Autisms-Edge/dp/0595392962

"Author Henry Kong's More Self than Self: At Autism's Edge will take
you on a captivating exploration of the autistic mind as Dr. Kong
shares the latest discoveries in genetics and neuroscience.