That all said, I don't think mental illness, & distinct from mental illness but intersecting, neuroatypicality are irrelevant to human creativity & scientific advancement. I would like to know if Cantor was captivated by infinity, in part because of his "melancholy" or was mathematics a way to escape?
It's obvious that without "special interests" we'd know much less about the world. It's good that all minds do not work in the same way, even though atypical thinking can be a struggle. 2/2
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