( It just occurred to me that I learned how to do basic operational encryption i

( It just occurred to me that I learned how to do basic operational encryption in second grade. And I learned how to program (taught myself from very simple books) before I learned algebra, and that this ‘operational’ framing was what troubled me when I got into mathematics, because it seemed like I was just guessing all the time, and I felt that was intuitively ‘wrong’. And that it’s that intuition,along with my intuition against induction, that my little autistic subconscious seized upon. … It’s fascinating to look back at the causes of one’s psychology. I mean. How much of my life was framed by reading a book on ‘secret messages’ in second grade? How much more was framed by the fact that I saw complex mazes, and then drew 18×24″ mazes in painful detail? How much more by learning to draw in perspective, then imagining and drawing the timber-structures – drawing the skeletons of victorian homes? How much by soldering together a primitive digital computer when I was 13? How much by my recognition that something was wrong with physics when i learned the light-slit experiment. How much by the classes in electronic engineering … and the ridiculous simplicity of it as reducible to ohms law – and that everything interesting was in the materials science of conductors and insulators, or programming the software, but not in the engineering itself? …. I’m perfect aware that my reading of encyclopedias informed by later study of the history of art, and later history of economics, and recent interest in the history of thought, and current history of western man’s ‘unique difference’: sovereignty. )