Reducing the inputs of data to a system would probably reduce the instances of possible misfiring. This seems fairly normal inference to me..

oddly, though, the result only holds for people who are born blind, and not who go blind as adolescents or adults.

Interestingly, there are a preponderance of congenitally blind people with autism. Autism has been considered by some to involve symptoms that are the opposite of schizophrenia, and this has led to the thinking that to reduce schizophrenic cognition, make them more like autistics.This has led some researchers to speculate that congenital blindness predisposes toward styles of cognitive processing that encourages autism and suppresses schizophrenia.

really interesting

Interestingly, there are a preponderance of congenitally blind people with autism. — Joshs

Interesting (and discussed somewhat in the Psychology Today article FJ linked).

Although I seem to have fairly normal vision when it comes to static images, I definitely have a deficit when it comes to detecting the details in dynamic visual events. (Some relevant research.)

So it's perhaps reasonable to think of people on the autism spectrum as being somewhat blind, in the sense of having lower visual processing bandwidth than neurotypicals.

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