I've come to realise that schizophrenia and autism are just slightly more extreme modes of two aspects of animal consciousness.
In the first, your prior expectations about meaningfulness are dialled up; in the latter, they're dialled down.
In that it seems autism is a kind of "literalism of the data" and schizophrenia a kind of "literalism of the interpretation".
Being somewhat autistic myself, I have always had a very negative reaction to "idea literalists" (religious, superstitious, transhumansist, crypto-blahblah... and AI-hype).
In the first, your prior expectations about meaningfulness are dialled up; in the latter, they're dialled down.
In that it seems autism is a kind of "literalism of the data" and schizophrenia a kind of "literalism of the interpretation".
Being somewhat autistic myself, I have always had a very negative reaction to "idea literalists" (religious, superstitious, transhumansist, crypto-blahblah... and AI-hype).