Neanderthals & Limits Tolerance

Intelligent beings want to know the min-max of everything because it is directly correlated with their continued survival

Intelligence is about pattern matching - “noticing.”

One of the biggest parts of pattern matching is to know what limits the pattern falls into. That’s how you know where to look, when you identify the minimum and maximum of anything.

It’s why as people get brighter, they refer to the scale and ratio of things as the useful reference to their properties. How big? How small? How high? How low? It is life saving in a variety of contexts to know just this.

The question I am going to answer in this post is “why do people with Asperger’s Syndrome always need to see if more of anything is better and what is the minimum you can get by on?” That’s discovering tolerances in all your patterns.

What is the minimum amount of human contact to keep from going nuts? What constitutes too much social interaction at a cost to your integrity? What is too cold to go out and forage for small game? What makes ice too thin to safely walk on in one place but not another? How low should you look below the ridgeline to find water? All these things involve upper and lower bounds, a bracketing of reality that grows more precisely defined as we discover these limits.

Most importantly, why did one of these aspergers idiots overdose on Vitamin A or Vitamin B12 or pecans or even alkaline water? They do it constantly and neurotypicals cannot understand why. The aspies might as well have come from an alien planet.

It seems impossible that anybody could have survived the Grand Minimum. They would have had to be almost infinitely inventive and extremely good problem solvers both short-term and long-term.

I have a theory and it’s a good one. Feel free to shoot it down.

Remember if you are new to this Substack, I don’t believe the Neanderthals ever existed; just to bring you up to speed. It’s just a word I use to screen out the Reddit crossovers and the less-than-stellar intellects. I didn’t coin the word but there is a reason that my ideas were called “Edenism” when I originally began writing about them. I will leave you to do the heavy lifting on the conclusions to be drawn here. The group on the internet who did conceive that name for my proposition were very sharp cookies because that’s what I meant all along. People can only handle so much at once.

So we’re going to talk about those “Neanderthals” again to convey my theory with the correct context.