Seemingly indeed...

Does the author mean that some development is universal, or that a particular path/pattern of development is? My initial comment (above) assumed the author meant a particular type or course of development was universal. That, I have a problem with - the notion that cognitive development is presumed to have various built-in features which seem conspicuously absent in autism. We don’t follow the plan, we don’t play by the rules. So what to do with us?

Here, as numerous places elsewhere, I have had to recast the author’s words to make peace with them: fractal geometry could be considered a “universal process” too, I suppose, yet the results vary astonishingly depending on the parameters. Even within a fractal “family” (the Mandelbrot or Julia sets, for example) the graphic representations - the process made visible - appear widely different.

Last revised: June 23, 2007
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