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Autism as a disorder of dimensionality – Opentheory.net

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Note: I was saving this for the launch of the Symmetry Institute, but given the recent discussions around REBUS/CANAL, Deep CANALs, and Neural Annealing I pushed it forward. I. Network dimensionality Lately, I’ve been thinking of the “autistic bundle of symptoms” as naturally arising from having a nervous system whose dimensionality parameter is maladaptively high. The following is an attempt to explain what I mean by this. All networks have an implicit dimensionality, which we can think of essentially as a branching factor: if one node is connected to one other node, and so on, this is a one dimensional network. If one node can on average branch to 2.5 nodes, it’s a 2.5 dimensional network, and so on. Trees and leaves have this sort of branching dimensionality parameter as well, typically between 1.4-1.6 (see Hausdorff dimension). The dimensionality of a network is a crucial factor for what kinds of patterns can form in the network; higher dimensions can encode more complexity. Suffic

Contents I. Network dimensionality II. Autism as a growth disorder: Uriah’s thesis III. Autism as a disorder of dimensionality IV. Godshatter as a unifying dynamic in personality disorders V. Personality disorders as strategies to manage godshatter Note: I was saving this for the launch of the Symmetry Institute, but given the recent discussions around REBUS / CANAL , Deep CANALs , and Neural Annealing I pushed it forward. I. Network dimensionality § Lately, I’ve been thinking of the “autistic bundle of symptoms” as naturally arising from having a nervous system whose dimensionality parameter

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