Kevin explains the basic difference between nonautistic people and autistic people like himself: “Most people are digital computers, haunted by flashes of analog Mind. I live in a pool of Mind but have difficulty interfacing with digital (non-autistic) humanity.” Or now, in a rather stunning few sentences that combine the history of philosophy, art, computer science, and evolutionary biology: “Humans are analog/digital processing units for the Cosmic Unconscious of Platonic Surrealism.” The digital interface is still under active development: “it was under Darwinian evolution at first, but now
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