My personality makes cognitive science easier for me.

JDN 2456291 EDT 12:13.

 

I realized today why so many people have trouble understanding concepts in cognitive science that to me feel so elegant and intuitive. I had been assuming that other people think much the same way I do (Mind Projection Fallacy), and I hadn't been correcting for my highly unusual personality traits.

 

Specifically, I am an empathizer-systematizer. Most people are either empathizers or systematizers, not both. Empathizers conceptualize the world in terms of co...