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Edmund Valentine White III was born 50 years ago in Cincinnati to a father who was a chemical engineer and a mother who was a psychologist for retarded children. He is the seventh Valentine in the White descent. His older sister Margaret Fleming, a psychotherapist, recalls that even as a small boy her brother was different: "Like most kids I was a conformist, but not Ed. I didn't understand him then and probably tortured him a lot . . . Today he's my hero. When my parents divorced, he was only seven, and he took it very hard. He became...
Much the same could be said about Miller's second novel, Family Pictures. The message is that women with autistic children have been made to bear the burden and the guilt for the misfortune. Appropriately, the setting is Chicago, home of the late psychologist Bruno Bettelheim, whose judgmental views on the causes of autism hang over the Eberhardt family. Underscoring the theme is David Eberhardt, an orthodox Freudian psychiatrist. Mother Lainey navigates with less theory and more emotion -- no small undertaking with six children, including the autistic Randall...
...angers many artificial-intelligence researchers. M.I.T.'s Marvin Minsky, one of the field's pioneers, is downright hostile. Says he: "Penrose is O.K. when he talks about mathematics, but most of his evidence argues against his conclusions. As far as I can tell, he is just plain wrong." Stanford psychologist and AI researcher David Rumelhart is somewhat milder: "He defines intelligence too narrowly by saying it depends on consciousness...
...guarantee of eternal life. In Burma, where Karen rebels have been fighting for independence for 41 years, combat has become the family business. Northern Ireland is not officially at war, but a state of siege between two religions has made violence the expected. As Alexander Lyons, a Belfast psychologist, dryly says, "It's the children who don't throw stones that are abnormal...
People will continue to err when predicting the future if only because of the human tendency to fit new events into familiar categories. In a celebrated 1950s experiment, psychologist Jerome Bruner showed that ordinary people would "see" a red ace of spades as a regular black one if it was salted into an otherwise normal deck. The Smithsonian exhibit demonstrates that inventors are fooled in the same...