Sorta related (maybe?): I have a (speculative) theory that people have a kind of machinery in their brains for processing the emotions of other people, and that people with autism find it aversive to use that machinery, and so people with autism learn early in life particular habits of thought that reliably avoid activating that machinery at all. But then they learn to analyze and react to the emotions of other people via the general-purpose human ability to learn things. More details here.
Yeah, that could produce an example of Doppelgängers. E.g. if an autist (in your theory) later starts using that machinery more heavily. Then there’s the models coming from the general-purpose analysis, and the models coming from the intuitive machinery, and they’re about the same thing.
Sorta related (maybe?): I have a (speculative) theory that people have a kind of machinery in their brains for processing the emotions of other people, and that people with autism find it aversive to use that machinery, and so people with autism learn early in life particular habits of thought that reliably avoid activating that machinery at all. But then they learn to analyze and react to the emotions of other people via the general-purpose human ability to learn things. More details here.
Yeah, that could produce an example of Doppelgängers. E.g. if an autist (in your theory) later starts using that machinery more heavily. Then there’s the models coming from the general-purpose analysis, and the models coming from the intuitive machinery, and they’re about the same thing.