White Board Series video link https://youtu.be/9yRzZvsA8NQ?si=Hp9IQjp5unodA_BA

This episode breaks down autism and intuition from the circuitry up. Intuition isn’t magic—it’s prediction. And in the autistic brain, that prediction system runs differently. Instead of compressing uncertainty into fast social “gut feelings,” autistic cognition preserves high-resolution detail, sustains prediction error, and builds insight through iterative modeling. Sensory cortex, parietal salience maps, insula, amygdala, OFC, and ACC all play a role in a system that prioritizes structural truth over social smoothing.

We explore excitation–inhibition balance, oscillations, dopamine learning, and von Economo neur ...