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        AUTISM99, mobilized Tony Blair and three other Prime Ministers, and set a "minimum standard"  for all congresses to come. Martijns could defend the "middle class". Cavendish was chosen as a symbol for "genius because autism".
        If you accept AUTISM99 as the "starting block" the next, urgent, step consists in creating a "Theory of  Mind", which will take account of:
1 / Three classes of autists, already recognized, then
2 / Three classes of "initiated"
3 / A dynamic definition, based on
4 / Two worlds, " hardware " and " software "
5 / Six " noodigms "
6 / What about this " Theory of Mind"?
7 / Two origins and
8 / Two ways for the future

        Which definition was used by the promoters of ART(autism)E2000,(Tuesday 6/6/2000, 21h45)? We must deduce it:  unknown specialists, ("Put your questions! they will  answer...);  deserving  a "kick-the-tortoise ", none of them ready to accept a discussion on the true mystery:

the " signal-autism" is perhaps the source of any progress...
        Satisfied parents, (like these winners  before the opening of the Fair);
        navigation between Scientology and Lourdes:
"Bring your children, we make Little Temples of them... "
        A brushing for parental culpability:
"If you don't bring them, you will have a Helle!"

Warning:
        "Top-autists" have a mania , ("liturgy" for the initiates), a need for exactitude: everything is checked, patented, to a point that  we are labelled "scientific", " savants idiots", "petits profs".

1 / Three classes of autists
  In the "Renaissance  "artist"  was just an artful guy and 
and Vinci was classified in the 
Holy Congregation of  spices and colours merchants . 
Analogy for the autism?

Class 1:  "disturbed children",  (Spanish "trastornado" is more poetic!), which never cure but don't die..." . Strange to apply the root "autos", to people  that  will  never be "autonomous"). Question: how could Mukho jump to the next class;
Class 2:  the middle-class socialized with problems in society...", (people who, often, get along well thanks to the university umbrella...),
Class 3:  "the Cavendish kind", raising the great question,

"autism as source of any progress?"
    The autists  claiming Einstein, Vinci, (dear Temple adds Wittgenstein!), must reverse:
"Why the autists are not Newtons?
Corollary:
"How to propel "any Little Prof" up to this  level ?
2 / Three classes of "initiated":
        Class 1: "problem-outside diplomocus",   thinking like William James: "the abnormal  helps to understand the normal ." Where is  this definition of "NORMAL both explained and explaining"?
        Class 2: "problem inside-home", Rimland, Millcent, Lorna, with sleepless nights... on the level of the neurogenius who advances  silently, intuitively, (Cambier, Lécuyer, Soulayrol, Diebold...)
        Class 1: "problem inside": I have sought a double of mine for 12 years.
3. A dynamic definition
        How to escape to a definition on a Theory of Mind  resembling "a land delimited by four shaking stakes". Spinoza would say: " You require a hammer to make a hammer!" In the "hard" world ", a stone is enough. In the "soft" world" , we start "an unending  Popperian quest", extremely fruitful ", a search for "toolectuals", like the Table of Mendeleiev, a frame ready to receive our three classes,  their differences, and their evolutions,
            3.1   on the left, official criteria of the autism...
            3.2   in the center, the "signal-aspergers",
            3.3   at the extreme right-hand side, the criteria which enable me to detect the "top-autist".
        The Table will record phenomena never described, obvious for "inside-problem people", like the possible use as protective bell and of self-tuition
in autism, (cf Einstein, Birger),
in prosopamnesia, (Darwin, me),
and even in  epilepsy, (cf Dr. Diebold).
        It will show the "sublimation" of criteria like
- the tendency to self-destruction, resistance to  hunger,  suffering,  cold, heat;
- the transformation of the need  to move nothing in  need, taste, mania, ("liturgy"), to solve any encountered problems, (cf. Edison, Einstein...), sometimes interpreted as "scientific spirit" when we only require  exact definitions.
- One will be able to follow  the progress of Moïses saved by their mother, and also to locate the " congress-starletts ", (curiously all are girls while autism prefers boys...)
4 / Two worlds, " hardware " and " software "
"the world of the ideas has more influence on our lives than the material world",
    Good definition, (by Popper),  of the interdependence of these two worlds, perfectly symbolized by the linguistic puzzle:  our thought is "spacialised?  ("he has a hand in this... you'll be received  with open arms...",  even my future is "in front of me"!)
       But  language, essential to think, will block  thought, (Wittgenstein and Saussure tried to warn us, one century ago!)
        Professor Cambier   pass near the "genius puzzle":
"... PROGRESS is often  the work of geniuses that  concealed what they had learned   TO GIVE FREE COURSE TO A  THOUGHT WITHOUT LANGUAGE. From ARCHIMEDES to EINSTEIN, lots of examples... " (Jean Cambier and Patrick Verstichel, " the RECONCILED BRAIN ", Masson 1998.)
     I propose to change "concealed" by "refused established formation". But is "Thought without language" possible?  That's living in Popper's Second World, not communicating with society! I just think that "intuitions" should be the "base" for a true philosophy... (Locke smelt it with: "How did Newton's brain work?")
    Let' remain in the parallel " hard-soft ", a bonus in creativity, (help me, Zénon!)
1 /  " Software " is copied on  " Hardware ".
2 / We know Paris better if we  know a bit of France.
3 / Idem in the world of  ideas!
        I.E: any definition of an "object" depends on the quality of the definition of its environment, of our cosmology, of our culture; worse, of our capacity of updating our knowledge, by including any progress in knowledge. But, it is first of all, necessary to admit a progress in  thinking, (easy if you follow Professor Cambier), caused by people refusing the scholastic easy way,  following an anxious, irresistible, (autistic?), need to understand ; and finally obliging us to change our "certainties", (as an average, it takes 50 years, two generations!). Any professor of sciences knows students  knowing more  math that Cantor but  counting on their fingers, (thanks to the bicameral system...)
        Whoever overpassed  algebra should admit a progress in thinking. Your next step will be to admit  that great scientists made more for the progress of philosophy than all the "philosophers". Therefore we find in the world of  ideas the rule of Evolution, "Nature proceeds by changes of nature but using old things to make new ones". Therefore, the discoveries like gravity or relativity are less  important than the changes the impose on us... Next question?
How many soft-jumps, ("noodigms"),  in  History?
5 / Six noodigms
         According to Einstein, "creator of  "atomOS"), "there are few ideas", therefore few noodigms, probably only six, (the last, psychOS, remaining to be created). Which  reduces the immense philosophical nonsense to the intuitions of a few great scientists. I dream of a philosophy without textbooks, no room for  problems of the kind: " Why TO BE it and not NOTHING?" ( I like the modern puzzle of the "sex of  angels": " Snow is White IF Snow AND White " and from time to time I worry on this " Bald King of France ", only known of British philosophers...) Place for
" Why CONSCIENCE and not INSTINCT?"
        Our definition of  " soft-autism " depends now on our definition of conscience. Prof Damasio smelt it: "Conscience is not  for reading Shakespeare!" then fell into "Disputatio inter Pares" and  "Publish and get Rich". Jung, Piaget... proved that the comment of an intuition dissolves it. Because this "elaboratio" brings back the "primal vision" at the cultural level of its discoverer.
        Example of a noodigm?
    Number 4, (cosmOS), a cultural change lived by a scientist, (Newton), which solved an enormous problem, (gravity), at the same time creating a language ("calculus") opening three centuries of interpretations by  true philosophers, (Locke with "Understanding", refined by Berkeley, Hume, Kant...)
        But the big problem for a "specialist" is
his capacity to "update" his mind,
to absorb the last discoveries in his representation of the world.
And these progresses seldom appear in his world.
        To speak about autism, it is necessary to have a " theory of the conscience ", which includes bicameralism,  Libet's delay line, synesthesia... I smile at  the " cognotivist ", saying he has absorbed the linguistics of Saussure and the data processing of Turing....
               When Schotty cut a "corpus callosus", and exclaimed: "TWO consciences ", I rectified, thanks to the experiences surrounding my  "isolation" in hospital.
" ONE conscience, because TWO brains... "
        I always thought that this silent right brain had much to say. Once, I said to a  Psy lady  I could program my right brain. Imagine her reaction! However Freud and Daughter often mentioned it, without understanding as usual.
        I have just spent 30 months to get rid of my curse,  "prosopamnesia". IF "faces" are stored in the right lobe, (most probable), THEN  programming this right brain, needed shocks. How to obtain emotional shocks... (I think that the Sorbonne sterilized the XXth Century by pushing aside the kind of philosopher appeared in XIXth, with a "grain")
        Are you  shocked to hear that Freudy an C° are "pre-Zenonian", that Philéas Damasio is "pre-Newtonian"...
6 / "Theory of the Mind "?
        I've seen a hastily drawn sketch, for the students coming this afternoon; a dangerous recipe because it leads to  "partitioned thinking", (the base of any great criminal system!), no more serious than  the Earth resting on Atlas' shoulders and the Giant on the Big Tortoise. What about this key-beast? Spanish has a word: "que estire la pata!"
        Then " kick-the-tortoise " and 2000 years of nonsense will fall in the cosmic vacuum. It is incredible the quantity of "possible and useful kicks"  prepared  during the last 4000 years. We could even change the world with rabelaisian laughter.
6.1 A Provisional "Theory of the Mind"
        Autism is typically human, and should be studied from the blastula, (a conscious being, with a Newton in potencia), starting  on a so twisted a path that the hope of survival and arrival is strictly null. The dangers are innumerable, hardware, (chemical...) and software, (cultural, social...); before birth, (leaden fumes, hash, whisky, maternal rubella...) and after, (measles, thalidomide...). Each cerebral destruction, each excess, each lack, could end in   an irreversible catastrophe.
        Autism can therefore come from the two interactive worlds: "soft" and "hard". Different causes  producing the same symptoms; and similar symptoms from different reasons. I expect that  genetics will separate  "hard causes", from "soft causes" due to the revolt of a mind which loses confidence in, and no longer relies on society).
7 / Two origins
        Professor Soulayrol  mentioned two similar cases for the "Mukho Affair". These "miracles" are so decisive for the future and  for the past that I ask the control that Alexis Carrel imposed in Lourdes.
         We must look to  another problem, the next step of evolution for Mukho. But after 12 years,  blows are not recommended!   How, why, thanks to what, to whom did Newton  evolve? and Branly, and Vinci, Schopenhauer...
        I prefer Arthur among all, a dandy-sopher with a bit of "intellectual racism",  not ready to risk his brain for science; with an excuse:  so many "nuts" in his family that he lived waiting for  his turn to come.
        Why I prefer Schopenhauer and understand him better than any philosopher. I easily imagine Arthur during a paternal crisis, (perhaps of autism, certainly of "prosopamnesia"). Who is the true inventor of the "Will"? Arthur, contemplating his remarkable father in a crisis. Or Father Phyllis trying to explain his impotence to a son for whom he wishes all; to whom he can all give, except a "normal" father. From my own experience, I deduced my curious criteria of "detection of top-autism". Let me explain:

I am a French product
        that only France, (land of passages and programmed battles), could produce. In my time, Kanner was unaware of the word " autism". But I cumulate souvenirs like my godmother describing me as "an ideal baby: we put to you on a blanket and you gave us a royal peace...".
      Biologically, I  come from a "lucky devil", (opinion of my grandmother), who, after two or three years of service spent four years near Verdun. Never wounded, he lost not a day with nice nurses. As a farmer-boy, he carried the supplies and was responsible for the Great Mutiny, because he  often delivered cold soup. He returned home  mechanical like a scarecrow, aboulic like a Franciscan monk. What my father saw, I don't know: during ethylic crises, he spoke about a Chemin des Dames and a Saint Miel.
    I don't know if my father could read: he answered any question: "Not your age!". A child will stop asking question. Like Einstein, I hated to play with  other children, (I still hate all games): I lived  in a soft-bubble, a protective bell. My home was the workshop of my father. My mother would give me some pennies to buy nails, got the "royal peace". I became ambidextrous like Vinci and  skilful like Newton. But if I was disturbed, I  became furious, insulting, vulgar. I remember one  unforgettable beating, the manner of programming the right brain.
     I entered  school not when 4 years, as obligatory in France, but when 5 years, 5 months and 5 days. I remember perfectly  my first day. Anyway,I studied the TEN obligatory years in SIX years EIGHT months, always the first; and was admitted at "holy communion" with a dispense of age, (do you know another case?), with a  neuter mind: religion was just a compulsory and cautious custom.
     I attribute my mental survival to my thirst to learn and my acute sense of justice, wrongly labelled  jealousy and  found in  many "labelled perseverating aspergers". What my brother had, I required it and  got it. This brother chose another way: he's not idiot, just imprevisible...

    Intellectually,  I probably the result of the
"most incredible crossing of  the last Century"
People of the size of Clémenceau and Citroen  wanted to implement  the "Vision of Uncle Cardinal ", in 1905.   Strange formation, what Voltaire and Diderot got, (and later Scop, Maine de Biran...);  in an excellent Latin: " Quos vult perdere Jupiter, prius dementat!")  Lots of mysteries! Why, after 33 years of considerable expenditure, and no results, the baron demanded the promised assistant? why they inverse, trying a kid with a totally neuter religion mind? why he adopted me so that I become "untouchable"? What did  my "locomotives" see in me? All died  quickly, three of them a violent death. And first of all, if I were a "persevering asperger", how did they re-shape me, without the stick of Mukho's mother?
    Some Frenchmen lived the "Separation of 1905" like "June 40". Uncle Cardinal  had two remarkable nephews, one of them the " baron ", "director of the newspaper done best according to the French government". He convinced him to  launch a "newspaper of reconciliation". In three months, "DEMAIN", (To-Morrow),  was running  with collaborators of class. Success in six months, (translated into a mystery-sentence : "We had the Queen of Italy!"
    How a Voltairian Great-Bourgeois  could help  the Church? by demolishing the terrible Index. He was terribly prudent but  efficient: he asked some English writers to give "the point of view of the English Catholic church..."  The French dignitaries had to applaud but the low clergy  demanded  the disappearance of this diabolical paper and obtained it, (closing explained : "To-Morrow was too early"). The Baron did not forget, (formula to tell me: " My brother never says: " My Lord" only "Lord" to a bishop, because he is a baron... ")
    On his death-bed, the baron refused the " sacraments ". I took it as a personal message. Today, I am the only reader of " DEMAIN " and the only one  able to explain it.
8 / and two ways for the future
        Some " psys " announce an explosion of little gangsters, (baby-killers, serial killers of girls...). When, how,  did they see it? Have they smelt the soft-gangsterism, "coders ILoveYou"?) I announced the "delinquency", when  the CuniCuliCulture was installed in Babel-Borroughs, a replica of the environment of my childhood:
"Cassez les NICHES; on vous cassera les MICHES!",
("Rompen los nidos, les romperàn los huevos!",
"Break the nests, break the breasts!")
    I called this a "Crime against Being", (like the Baald'Oïd Affair). It could help to solve a major problem:
"Why so few hyper-gifted survive"?
(not the super-gifted of the left lobe selected by BINET and  MENSA !)
    To change the world, to create a "Millennaire des Lumières", to avoid New Dark Ages, we just need a few children "playing with their two brains ", an Albert who spoke when FOUR years, Isaac still a carter with 15, or the whimsical Arthur, my " autistwin "; all  mentally retarded, refusing  schooling and barracking!
    Once more, I repeat:
"Just indicate that there is a dangerous passage, South of America.
And  thousands of Magellans will rush there... "