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The Pattern Seekers
- How Autism Drives Human Invention
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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Summary
A groundbreaking argument about the link between autism and ingenuity.
Why can humans alone invent? In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autism is as crucial to our creative and cultural history as the mastery of fire. Indeed, Baron-Cohen argues that autistic people have played a key role in human progress for 70,000 years, from the first tools to the digital revolution.
How? Because the same genes that cause autism enable the pattern seeking that is essential to our species' inventiveness. However, these abilities exact a great cost on autistic people, including social and often medical challenges, so Baron-Cohen calls on us to support and celebrate autistic people in both their disabilities and their triumphs. Ultimately, The Pattern Seekers isn't just a new theory of human civilization, but a call to consider anew how society treats those who think differently.
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- PH
- 12-04-21
Awful reading, fascinating text
The narration of this audiobook is mechanical and stilted.
The content is interesting. It is a sham that charts and appendices are not provided in a pdf.
A poor audiobook. I may well have to buy this to do the content justice.
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- MLS
- 01-12-23
Couldn’t get past the voice
Really sorry Simon. I’m sure your book has interesting content but had to drop by Chapter 2 due to the narration style…like every sentence had an exclamation mark at the end. Wore me down.
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- Mrs B.
- 15-02-22
Amazing Insight
This was such an interesting insight into the different brain types. It was so engaging and useful. It has really helped me to understand my daughter.
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- Tigerfritters
- 13-05-22
Can't listen to this narrator
Excellent book but the narration is awful, the guy speaks every sentence with the same cadence and inflection, and i found it impossible to focus on the content as i just wanted it to end. Switched to the written format and highly recommend. Please though, stay away from anything narrated by Jonathan Cowley
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- Laura
- 15-08-23
Not keen on the narration
I really wanted to listen to this book but the style of the narration stopped me getting further than the first couple of chapters. The speed and tone felt very robotic and this made it hard for me to take in the information.
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- Ledniva
- 04-11-23
Move along....
There are so many other books to read or listen to, I have decided to drop this one in the middle. If you have ever picked up a book or a lecture on neuroscience, you will very easily notice holes in author's argumentation.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-11-23
Dubious at best.
The narration of this book was fairly monotone and uninteresting, but I personally had more quams with the content.
The author finds some intriguing correlations in his data, and states some interesting theories around them. However I find that his arguments are dismissive of other opinions/theories and that huge leaps are made when analysing patterns. It reads as though he has created a theory and has searched high and low for evidence that supports it, even creating experiments and categorisation based on little more than his own opinion. Overall, I'd describe it as heavily critiqued pseudoscience.
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- Amazon Kunde
- 15-03-21
Obnoxiously loud breathing
Sounds like the narrator has some respiratory issues, as he's rushing through to take a big loud gulp of air in between every couple of words. Could not listen to it for more than a minute. If you're autistic and sensitive to annoying sounds, beware.
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- AD
- 10-02-23
Boring
Sorry….one of the most boring books about neurodivergent people yet. I am not sure if it were the narrator or what but I was disappointed.
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