An intense gaze
The intense eye–brain connection
Certain specific characteristics may indicate the presence of an autistic (AS) person. Normally, the eye is connected to different areas of the brain, depending on the activity and the environment.
One of the remarkable aspects of the autistic (AS) person is the intensity of the connection between the eye and certain neural areas. Thus, an intense, slightly fixed gaze often turns inward, reflecting highly sustained internal activity. This essentially mental activity may be accompanied by a radiance of the soul, which manifests itself as consciousness develops.
This particularity is found in autistic (AS) people, but also in certain artists, musicians, painters and other individuals endowed with intense activity, remarkable concentration, exceptional listening and an extraordinary capacity for visualisation. It would thus constitute one aspect of a distinctive and remarkable genetic profile.
By contrast, the allistic individual has a more outward-looking, social gaze; when they turn towards their inner world, however, their gaze expresses itself with a very different gentleness and dynamic.
How does the brain deal with complex events?
The brain records, filters and combines information. It raises questions such as: where were we, how did we perceive events, how were they recorded and in which regions of the brain were they stored? Neuroscience has studied the brain extensively to measure the intensity of reactions in active areas and identify storage locations. For example, complex events occurring close together in time and space can provide preprocessed data, allowing the causal system—consisting of the hippocampus interacting with the cortex—to separate and filter information using various markers, while indicating time and space. This causal system, resulting from the association of the cortex and hippocampus in an information circuit, works like a processor capable of extracting, sorting and interpreting data to reach a conclusion.