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    1. John Holbo‏ @jholbo1 26 Feb 2021

      And Grandin, who is autistic, has serious deficits as well. One standard critique of British empiricist notions of 'ideas' as photocopies of perceptions is that, if this were right, a lot of types of thinking should be hard or impossible. So it is for Grandin. 11/pic.twitter.com/TrflrwRj48

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    2. John Holbo‏ @jholbo1 26 Feb 2021

      She's like a real-life version of Hume's theory of general or abstract ideas, plus his various notions about associations of ideas. If Hume had called his book "An Enquiry Concerning Temple Grandin's Understanding" he might have been right - less wrong, anyway. 12/

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    3. John Holbo‏ @jholbo1 26 Feb 2021

      But let's flip it, think a very contrary thought. Wittgenstein has his famous 'beetle in a box' .That is, it doesn't matter what's on the inside because no one else can see the inside. (Until you get to college and everyone starts checking out other styles of mental beetle?) 13/pic.twitter.com/ElmIDMhBLB

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    4. John Holbo‏ @jholbo1 26 Feb 2021

      It is perfectly possible to be aphantasic and a fine visual artist. The animator Glen Keane is aphantasic; he can draw the Little Mermaid fine. What this goes to show is that he 'sees what he's doing' with his pen or pencil, not with his mind's eyes. 14/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2019/apr/10/aphantasia-why-a-disney-animator-draws-a-blank-on-his-own-creations …

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    5. John Holbo‏ @jholbo1 26 Feb 2021

      If you see him drawing, in the gestural manner appropriate to creating the stuff he does, you can readily imagine - even if you can't do it - the visual feedback of doing, recognizing 'rightness', correcting or proceeding. And a lot is in the wrist. 15/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSbkn6mCfXE …

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    6. John Holbo‏ @jholbo1 26 Feb 2021

      If you are a writer - a verbal person - it isn't at all weird to think you need to do it 'at the keyboard'. I can't think without my keyboard. Nothing strange about that. I need to write something, then read it, to check if it makes sense, after all. 16/

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    7. John Holbo‏ @jholbo1 26 Feb 2021

      To a limited extent I can compose verbiage in my mind. I have gone for walks and tried to work out verbal problems - how does this argument go? - all in my head. But it would be strange & hard to compose a whole essay, or even an outline for one, all in my mind. 17/

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    8. John Holbo‏ @jholbo1 26 Feb 2021

      But I'll bet some people can do it. But I'll bet the skill of 'naturally' being able to hold large blocks of text in the mind - without aid of keyboard or pencil to write it out - is only weakly, though no doubt positively, correlated with being a GOOD writer. 18/

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    9. John Holbo‏ @jholbo1 26 Feb 2021

      Back to the beetles. It seems like Wittgenstein might be half right. It might be that we have different beetles in our boxes, mentally, and that might make no difference. Then again, it might make a difference. Odd. 19/

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    10. John Holbo‏ @jholbo1 26 Feb 2021

      "Dad, I haven't got an inner, imagistic Cartesian theater of the mind!"pic.twitter.com/eDO2nk7KqU

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Feb 2021
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      I feel like our new understanding of neurodiversity should change how we see the history of philosophy.

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        1. FBoondoggle‏ @FBoondoggle 26 Feb 2021
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          I’ve come to think that some people are born with qualia and some are zombies. It’s the only explanation of skepticism about panpsychism.

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