Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · pubmed0.790

   Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by problems with social-communication, restricted interests and repetitive behavior. A recent and thought-provoking article presented a normative explanation for the perceptual symptoms of autism in terms of a failure of Bayesian inference (Pellicano and Burr, 2012). In response, we suggested that when Bayesian inference is grounded in its neural instantiation-namely, predictive coding-many features of autistic perception can be attributed to aberrant precision (or beliefs about precision) within the context of hierarchical message passing …

   pubmed/PMID-24860482-an-aberrant-precision-account-of-autism/info.md

2. 02 · blog0.768

   By stipulating a category of human beings with radical cognitive disabilities, we seek to avoid difficult empirical issues about the extent to which individuals classified as having serious cognitive disabilities actually lack the psychological functions held to confer moral status. Even the most direct assessments of these functions may fail to recognize atypical, especially nonverbal, forms of cognitive functioning. And with the possible exception of extreme cases like anencephaly, there are formidable difficulties in inferring a lack of cognitive capacity from a lack of specific behavior or…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/cognitive-disability-and-moral-status.md

3. 03 · _intake0.765

   I have always found it ironic that the autism community has continued to blame vaccines, in spite of this very clear association of a decrease in infectious disease in humans over the same time span. This is a big clue that something other than just a vaccine is the major epigenetic player here. I think vaccines have become the easy target when a family is decimated by this disease and not getting any real answers from medicine. The astute scientists would realize that some key observations would tease out the details.

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/energy-epigenetics-8-autism.md

4. 04 · yt0.756

   So then it's incumbent upon you, Brandon, as a guy that's in this space to say, you know, I didn't know about that. nothing in my training actually even hinted that this was an issue. That's a good sign for you because then what are you doing? You you this is when you need to become a first principal thinker because you go from the known to understand the unknown. And unfortunately in the centralized paradigm especially when it relates to autism nobody does that. Everybody just wants to say oh well it's the vaccines. Well it's not. The vaccines are downstream of this effect. Do they definitely…

   yt/2njvFN-W4zc-red-light-blue-light-brain-damage-dr-jack-kruse-explains-wtf/transcript.txt

5. 05 · pubmed0.753

   - **PMID**: 25934216 - **DOI**: 10.1016/j.concog.2015.04.007 - **PMCID**: - **Journal**: Consciousness and cognition · **Year**: 2015 - **Authors**: Colin J Palmer, Anil K Seth, Jakob Hohwy - **MeSH**: Autism Spectrum Disorder, Humans, Social Perception, Theory of Mind, Thinking - **URL**: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25934216/ - **Captured**: 2026-05-10T11:27:12

   pubmed/PMID-25934216-the-felt-presence-of-other-minds-predictive-processing-count/info.md

6. 06 · pubmed0.752

   Autism narratives are not just stories or histories, describing a given reality. They are creating the language in which to describe the experience of autism, and hence helping to forge the concepts in which to think autism. This paper focuses on a series of autobiographies that began with Grandin's Emergence. These are often said to show us autism from the 'inside'. The paper proposes that instead they are developing ways to describe experience for which there is little pre-existing language. Wittgenstein has many well-known aphorisms about how we understand other people directly, without inf…

   pubmed/PMID-19528032-autistic-autobiography/info.md

7. 07 · pubmed0.752

   The mental states of other people are components of the external world that modulate the activity of our sensory epithelia. Recent probabilistic frameworks that cast perception as unconscious inference on the external causes of sensory input can thus be expanded to enfold the brain's representation of others' mental states. This paper examines this subject in the context of the debate concerning the extent to which we have perceptual awareness of other minds. In particular, we suggest that the notion of perceptual presence helps to refine this debate: are others' mental states experienced as v…

   pubmed/PMID-25934216-the-felt-presence-of-other-minds-predictive-processing-count/info.md

8. 08 · _intake0.751

   “It was claimed” is suitably cautious. I’d not be surprised if this were true, however. The rest of the article ought to disturb people’s complacency, too, but I’m not sure it will.

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/organizational-structural-failure-7-autophagy-fail.md

9. 09 · pubmed0.751

   - **PMID**: 19528032 - **DOI**: 10.1016/0010-0277(83)90004-5 - **PMCID**: PMC2677592 (full-text saved) - **Journal**: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · **Year**: 2009 - **Authors**: Ian Hacking - **MeSH**: Autistic Disorder, Autobiographies as Topic, Concept Formation, Creativity, Humans, Language, Psychology - **URL**: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19528032/ - **Captured**: 2026-05-10T11:11:06

   pubmed/PMID-19528032-autistic-autobiography/info.md

10. 10 · blog0.750

    Whom is the Debate About? There is, not surprisingly, disagreement about how to define cognitive or intellectual disability. (We will use these terms interchangeably, ignoring, unless specifically relevant, their apparent differences in breadth and emphasis.) There are competing psychometric and functional definitions, based respectively on standard deviations from the mean score on intelligence tests and on “significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which covers many everyday social and practical skills” (American Association of Intellectual and Develo…

    blog/plato-stanford-edu/cognitive-disability-and-moral-status.md