Autistic folks may emulate this...

And the behavioral “program” may be overridden for/by neurotypicals, it appears. Reversing the quote for its "autistic equivalent" yields something which seems legalistic, but is there the same problem with loopholes and letter-vs.-spirit in the interpretation? Or does one always interpret for one’s own best advantage?

Establishment of a context may usually be thought of as setting up linkages/relationships between objects... but another approach would involve starting with all possible linkages and “pruning” the undesired ones, in a manner similar to the pruning of connections between cells during typical brain development. So that instead of beginning with a blank canvas and “painting in” the contextual structures and relationships, one might encounter a kind of hypercanvas already covered with possibilities, the magical side-by-side with the obvious, the surreal indistinguishable from the real. So action may consist of blindly choosing a possibility and attempting to activate it - with the blindness caused not by too little “light” (data to consider) but by far too much.

(In the middle of the tumultuous 1968 Democratic [Party] National Convention in Chicago, one official at the rostrum was trying to conduct some type of procedural vote of the roaring mass of delegates, but finally gave up in frustration, saying something like, “I cannot interpret that noise.”)

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