The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention

The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention

In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autism is as crucial to our creative and cultural history as the mastery of fire. Indeed, Baron-Cohen argu…

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