Ijichi Shinji, Ijichi Naomi
Institute for Externalization of Gifts and Talents, Kagoshima 891-0144, Japan.
Med Hypotheses. 2007;68(3):493-8. doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.08.016. Epub 2006 Oct 4.
Developmental diversity in childhood is transformed into personality variation in adulthood. This view is now revalued through an ongoing paradigm shift in the field of developmental conditions, the transition from the qualitative dichotomy perspective to the quantitative concept. In the quantitative concept, autism is not a disease nor a developmental qualitative disorder, but a behavioral extreme in individual variation. Although the traditional qualitative view cannot interpret the recent worldwide prevalence of autism, the increase in the reported number of cases with autism and border cases can be easily explained by a dimensional exploration in which the primary autistic phenotype is regarded as an evolutional superiority. Therefore, the only suitable intervention is mentoring which provides a powerful lifelong support for higher social achievement in individuals with autism. Here, we hypothesize the coming mentoring circumstances for autistic individuals in the near future. Ongoing progress in robot and computer technology might allow the guardians to leave the major part of mentoring support to an individualized robot, and the 'folk physics' tendency in individuals with autism could facilitate the spread of the mentoring support system. The development of the robot mentor software may be simple because of the uniformity and stereotypy of the behavior patterns in individuals with autism. With the help of the robot mentor and under its guidance, autistic people might enjoy their social life and contribute to the prosperity of the human society to the maximum degree. Because the future population ratio of autistics/non-autistics might be reversed according to the current trend of the prevalence, mentoring robot programs for autistic individuals should be developed without delay as a novel preliminary activity in the Jiminy Cricket movement, which is a campaign to reverse the estrangement of the present majority from autism and to increase the number of mentors for autistic individuals. In this article, prerequisites for the mentoring program of the robot mentor are expected and discussed.
儿童期的发育多样性在成年后转变为个性差异。随着发育状况领域正在发生的范式转变，即从定性二分法视角向定量概念的转变，这一观点如今得到了重新评估。在定量概念中，自闭症并非一种疾病，也不是发育性的定性障碍，而是个体差异中的一种行为极端表现。尽管传统的定性观点无法解释近期自闭症在全球范围内的患病率上升情况，但自闭症及边缘病例报告数量的增加可以通过一种维度探索轻松解释，在这种探索中，原发性自闭症表型被视为一种进化优势。因此，唯一合适的干预措施是指导，它为自闭症患者在社会上取得更高成就提供强大的终身支持。在此，我们对自闭症患者在不久的将来即将出现的指导环境进行了假设。机器人和计算机技术的不断进步可能会使监护人将大部分指导支持工作交给个性化机器人，而自闭症患者的“民间物理学”倾向可能会促进指导支持系统的推广。由于自闭症患者行为模式的一致性和刻板性，机器人指导软件的开发可能会很简单。在机器人导师的帮助和指导下，自闭症患者可能会享受他们的社交生活，并最大程度地为人类社会的繁荣做出贡献。鉴于根据目前的患病率趋势，未来自闭症患者与非自闭症患者的人口比例可能会颠倒，因此应立即开发针对自闭症患者的机器人导师指导计划，作为“蟋蟀运动”中的一项新的初步活动，该运动旨在扭转目前大多数人与自闭症的疏离状况，并增加自闭症患者的指导者数量。在本文中，我们对机器人导师指导计划的先决条件进行了预期和讨论。
