The Epistemology of Neurotyping
In the struggle for self determination comes the constantly revolving tools of self-understanding (and, consequently, tools for understanding the not-you in order to contextualize). The nomadic wander through life in which the nomad takes no effort to steal a part to understand of the other trades the warmth of security for meaningless self-indulgence; for a pleasant aesthetic. The appeal of the sedentary is in the capability to understand the environment — to customize the other and to impose yourself upon it. To exist in a space that is obedient to you is to exist in a space in which no part of it has capability to be unable to be understood by you — such the thought is terrifying. To exist in society is to be presented with the narratives of other people, that narrative in which it's minds process socially and are able to manifest into exhibition and engage in the mutual self-contextualization that is co-existence (particularly in co-habitation). The narratives may contradict your own — or even be fundamentally incapable of being understood by you and vice versa. But such incompatibility is nonetheless crucial to the self-contextualization — to better understand the incompatibility is to conceive of the not-you such that you may wrap yourself in it; to wrap yourself in a non-obedient non-you which you understand to be incapable of understanding.
Lexicality — understanding reality through linguistic, ordered, and logical structures foremost — is a prison. I've said that sentence (minus the portion added by the em-dash) likely dozens of times, in dozens of situations. Because lexicality is fundamentally an attempt to bargain with the non-you, to pretend to understand what you don't know that you can't know through recounts by others or yourself of a supposedly logical structure of being with which you may use to compartmentalize and recontextualize seemingly illogical feelings and functions of life. Lexicality can only be justified by itself through circularity, as logic can only justify itself through logical argument requiring a mutual buy-in to such a concept before a conversation can even be had.
The question that is supposed by lexicality which is handled subconsciously in the mind of people is whether adopting systematic and linguistic modes of thinking helps you understand things or denigrates your understanding; whether packaging existence into leximes or “burning” the reality and leximes and manipulating the gas comes more intuitively to you.
Society centers itself around lexicality, and sends impressionism (and thereby impressionists) to the fringes, justifiably so. It's far easier for two lexical individuals to reach an understanding than two impressionists, and as such making a society that embraces impressionism must be done through heavy division of responsibilities; its likely best that our scribes and accountants operate lexically in much the same way that comedians and politicians are best operating impressionistically.
Neurotyping is the evaluation of a being through the axes of their impressionism and laterality (as in number of concurrent processes running simultaneously — the jumbled mode of thought in which tracks of thought are jumped between quickly), usually through this chart.
And through it has caused actively considering the typology, considering the differences in archetypal behavior between a bookkeeper and a contemplative and how to recognize the differences between them, and to provide significance to the subtlety of these archetypes and learning of ways to interact with and between them.
The conceptions of impressionism (as opposed to lexicality) and laterality (as opposed to linearity) help me identify where to point my thought; helps me contextualize the extremely complicated, interwoven thoughts and feelings that are in my mind constantly that are incapable of lexical codification (Extremely lateral impressionism of a Newtype) and how that is distinct from the experiential and contiguous thoughts neatly encoded and kept largely separate (Extremely linear lexicalism of a Bookkeeper). Learning how to interact with others of other neurotypes and learning to bridge the gap.
But even more important than any mechanisms to interact with people of individual neurotypes is to even recognize that there is a barrier, to understand what that barrier is, and why conversation breaks down. To understand better not only the not-you environment but also the internal you environment; in understanding how you process information you may better make cognizant brain processes that are usually subconscious (particularly for impressionists); as to recognize your own patterns of thought and make an active consideration the differences between your patterns of thought and the not-you, or even to better take account of the perspectives and individual capabilities of others.
This has occupied such vast swaths of my mindspace that I'm probably going to be posting about this routinely, and maybe even make a series of talking about different neurotypes and my experiences with/conceptualization of them.
Oh and I couldn't figure out a coherent way to include this in the article but here are some neurotyping charts of shows or movies you (probably) have seen as a thought exercise (and excuse to post some of these I've made)
Community
Bojack Horseman
and finally Everything Everywhere All At Once
