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Computationally we don't understand what dyslexia is. Neuroplasticity is happening all the time. Perhaps at one point something changes and he has the ability t
by archibaldJ 5y ago
Computationally we don't understand what dyslexia is. Neuroplasticity is happening all the time. Perhaps at one point something changes and he has the ability to aquire the writing form of a language agian.
Similiar to in mathematics where it's a very different process reasoning with symbols v.s. trying to visualize the mathematical construct through communication. Maybe it's difficult to aquire the writing form of graph theory when you are 19. But when you try to do that again at 25 suddenly you can read all of Paul Erdos' papers less daunthingly.
- denton-scratch 5y ago> Perhaps at one point something changes and he has the ability to aquire the writing form of a language agian. That sounds like what I was wondering. Perhaps something "snaps" into or out of place "catastrophically" (in the sense of almost discontinuously, in the context of the usual timescale of psychological changes). For example, it sounds like his loss of fear occurred pretty suddenly. I feel a bit awkward speculating about the mind of someone who I know of from just a single essay. That said, he's published a scathingly-honest record of his fascinating history with writing, and presumably he wants it read and discussed. And it's about him, so we discuss him, I guess.
- archibaldJ 5y agoDon't feel awkward about it. We're all minds speculating about minds. My blue will never be same as your blue, and so are my pains, pleasures, etc - no matter how closely some of my qualia may resemble yours. We're all in our own little specula (watchtower) seeing the world from our vantage points. Thus we can do nothing but speculari, or speculate so to speak. This is why psychedlic experiences are so meaningful. They help us to experience the meta-ness of the experience per se.