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When Autism Doesn’t Work: The Human Cost of the Question of Usefulness

Part 6 of a seven-part series exploring how neurodivergent minds are understood through the lens of usefulness. The previous articles examined this question from historical, economic, diagnostic, and structural perspectives. This article takes a different approach. It describes what that dynamic feels like from the inside when it does not work.

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The Roger Penrose Reader: Shadows, Symmetries, and the Shape of Thought

A reflective exploration of Sir Roger Penrose’s intellectual contributions, spanning his three-worlds metaphysics, Gödelian critique of computational theories of mind, twistor geometry, and Orch-OR theory of consciousness. The piece situates Penrose as a singular figure whose work challenges reductionism and insists on the profound interconnection between mathematics, physics, and consciousness.

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