Androcat<p>Ever get the feeling, when learning about something really complex, that you're trying to reach an understand that it just beyond your grasp?</p><p>It is quite obvious that the human brain, if narrowly focused enough, and given good enough perceptions, could make sense of pretty much any natural or artificial system.</p><p>Not as conscious knowledge, but as instinctual understanding, getting the predictions as gut feelings rather than as analyzable information.</p><p>Visceral, not cerebral.</p><p>In this light, monotropism could be seen to be an evolutionary counterpart to science. A drive to focus on narrow topics, to build intuitive understanding by hooking the brain to the topic directly, at a much lower level than conscious thought.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/philosophy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>philosophy</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Monotropism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Monotropism</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Observation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Observation</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/philosophyOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophyOfScience</span></a></p>