AsteroidNap wrote:
Actually, I have a hypothesis regarding this. Nature at work providing the human species with the occasional lone explorer and pioneer -- someone who doesn't reproduce, and uses that freedom to further the human species in other ways.
Of course this gene would be of less use in modern society, but for ancient humans, more so.
I suppose it becomes a natural order or a natural selection.....aspies on demand
As more aspies are used successfully by society to evolve the human race, the more attractive they come, and an opportunity to breed presents then WHAM its another aspie! Like a good shaman, or lone hunter who brings in a lot of meat, may get position and rewards from the tribe, and be able to successfully breed
Personally, I think your last sentence could be wrong. I think aspies have always been needed since day 1 and still even more so now, with so many pressing issues facing planet earth. We are all in this together. Its our job as unbiased elders and thinkers to speak out with our good ideas, that can be helpful to the earth and everything. Computers, science and engineering are our domains
Look at the countries which honoured their neurodiverse, and look at the nations that bully their neurodiverse. The legacy of the USA's supremacy is largely due to scientific leadership via scientists, introverts, and HFAutistics.
If it wasnt for aspies, yanks would still be picking nits off each others backs, and building badly designed donkey carts like some ancient humans, as they say...
oh, wait a minute...... reap what you sow suckers
You are right...I chose my wording poorly. Of course we are valuable. I agree whole-heartedly. My incomplete thought was directed more at the sense that natural selection, as in survival of the fittest, has sort of been suspended for humans in modern times (though it very well could resume). But this would do better in a different thread -- so as not to derail.
17 Jul 2011, 10:56 am
