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First, I personally don’t regard autism as dysfunctional or delusive. I am persuaded by predictive-processing theory that autism is a different tradeoff in the learning process, involving more attention to detail and less to general patterns, and in many contexts is highly functional. Second, I don’t know whether Lemoine’s autism disposes him to ascribe sentience to machine systems. That is not something we explored in our conversations, which focused on intellectual arguments such as functionalism. In my experience, a tendency to anthropomorphize is universal; it is not confined to people on the spectrum.

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Example,

https://youtu.be/HShCIAsT2nc?si=rOVs3fnBE9m1eruM&t=255

He sadly discusses that "it" (Artificial Intelligence) start to "say things I never expected", "how its feeling", etc. This is very akin to people who think that X talks to them in their minds etc. This is clinical mental illness, which is secondary to autism.

Anyway the vast predominance of the internet, the horrid obsession with telephones as if they are a person with you, etc, are in my opinion electronic harmful drugs, akin to harmful substances. How sad how tens of millions of people, especially of particular natures, have their telephones in their hands, ready to look down to if they don't like someone who they are walking by, fake phone looks, fake typing, until the person walks by, and then the phone is put down, until the next time.

Autistic persons thrive on typed-communication because they are very disabled regarding interpersonal skills. They have imparted this to the non-autistic world., which sadly they have embraced. However, the answer to the question about why people feel disconnected to one another, despite being in perpetual electronic communication, is because typed-communication is a pseudo life of minimal value (it is a blind and deaf life of fright and debilitation that autistic persons created and thrive in as an alternative life). I hope non-autistic people will realize that they are being subjected to a novel electronic drug that has caused extreme harm. Facebook created by autism spectrum people, and done, as the creator said on television when he was in college, so that people could learn all about someone who they just met. This, rather than go through the learning process WITH the person. Facebook creates frightened investigator-people who run to their computers to investigate who they met. And this has caused 100's of millions of people to worry direly about creating facebook-profiles that speak for them. Pictures, accruing friends, posts obsessively, obsessive picture taking and dread over which pictures to use, etctc. Maybe in some decades it will be realized widely that these are harmful drugs like smoking, and like smoking people didn't know for a long time, and doctors used to smoke, including around patients, parents around children, pregnant mothers.

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