Thanks for the info. Here's an e-mail I just sent to your linked site:
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If autistic savants are "released from the tyranny of the left brain," as Darold Treffort suggests, then why do they lack empathy, since empathy is what the right brain specializes in, according to Simon Baron-Cohen?
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If autistic savants are left-brain damaged, right-brain compensating (or rather, right-brain freely functioning), then why do they not develop "theory of mind?"
Wisconsin Medical Society - Savant FAQ
It would seem more logical to me for them to be right-brain damaged. Hmmm.
So...if we are ideally to be "released from the tyranny of the left brain," why should we expect to be more spiritual, when the savants are more like human calculators, and are non-relational--if anything more under left-brain tyranny?
As I said, the site is interesting, but I don't know what to make of it so far.
It's late and I seem to be missing something important here--maybe it will all make sense in the morning.
Megan