ABSTRACT
Hebb’s speculations, and those of Pribram and his collaborators, come from the facts of neurophysiology; Hayek’s come from a liking for logical system-building. What Tustin writes scarcely feels like speculation; it is nearer poetry. She puts herself into intimate contact with small children and tries to describe how they experience their world. In the course of doing this, she arrives at words (concepts – symbols – metaphors) with which she communicates to us her sense of what is going on. Her concepts to some extent dovetail with those derived in Part 1 from thinkers who had quite other matters in mind, and this gives one a sense of confidence that all of them are writing about similar phenomena, which each conceives of and perceives from a special perspective. In this chapter we look particularly at what we can learn from autistic states of mind, which tell us something about ways in which we may experience the discovery that there are other people in the world.
