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diff --git a/content/entry/paying-close-attention-to-experience.md b/content/entry/paying-close-attention-to-experience.md index b479fdc..e2cf0dc 100644 --- a/content/entry/paying-close-attention-to-experience.md +++ b/content/entry/paying-close-attention-to-experience.md @@ -80,9 +80,9 @@ When people talk about "the final frontier", they're usually talking about place There's all sorts of unconscious mental machinery going on in the background that we're not normally aware of. A fish living in water its whole life doesn't know what water is. However, some humans are aware of the unconscious mental machinery, because they lack it. ## Unconscious Mental Machinery -Some people's [fusiform gyrus](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusiform_gyrus), the part of the brain responsible for facial recognition, is impaired. This causes [face blindness](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia), or the inability to recognize facial features. It's hard for most of us to even imagine not having that ability because it's not something we notice. Nonetheless facial recognition is something we're all doing. +Some people's [fusiform gyrus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusiform_gyrus), the part of the brain responsible for facial recognition, is impaired. This causes [face blindness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia), or the inability to recognize facial features. It's hard for most of us to even imagine not having that ability because it's not something we notice. Nonetheless facial recognition is something we're all doing. -People with [Autism](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism) lack the ability to identify others' emotions. Most humans have emotion recognition as a metaphorical built-in [API](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/API). If autistic people can identify others' emotions at all, they do it through very deliberate thinking. It happens at the level of conscious effort rather than through the metaphorical API. +People with [Autism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism) lack the ability to identify others' emotions. Most humans have emotion recognition as a metaphorical built-in [API](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API). If autistic people can identify others' emotions at all, they do it through very deliberate thinking. It happens at the level of conscious effort rather than through the metaphorical API. Think about language. You effortlessly convert your thoughts into speech. And you easily understand others' speech. Neither of these are trivial tasks and yet you do them without even trying. These processes happen "underneath" conscious awareness. |