After spending some time with an individual that has autism, I feel like there's an underlying process to 'normal' cognition that spans a gamut from Schizophrenia to Autism. A shaky metaphor to the neurology might be how equivalent logic circuits can be made from corollary gates. It's as if one condition skews toward signal powered gates vs source powered gates. I.e. more concrete vs 'out there'... Just a quick thoug…
(Forgot to explicitly say, the failure modes are different: an inactivation that inhibits gracefully (simply forgetting) vs activation independent of actual signal (spurious thought). False negatives vs false positives.)