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What does collectible systems mean?

 
 
Reply Sun 19 Jan, 2014 12:38 am

A system that can be collected?
It does not sound understandable.

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The empathizing–systemizing (E-S) theory suggests that people may be classified on the basis of their scores along two dimensions: empathizing (E) and systemizing (S). It measures a person's strength of interest in empathy (the ability to identify and understand the thoughts and feelings of others and to respond to these with appropriate emotions); and a person's strength of interest in systems (in terms of the drive to analyse or construct them). A system is anything that follows rules. Key classes of systems including mechanical systems, natural systems, abstract systems, and collectible systems. Rules in turn are defined as repeating, lawful patterns.[citation needed]
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Reply Sun 19 Jan, 2014 03:11 am
@oristarA,
Field: psychology

If ideas or concepts can be collected together they are collectible.

Your quote is from the Wikipedia article about Professor Baron Cohen's empathizing-systematizing theory of autistic brain types. (See, I fixed the context for you)

Individuals with autistic spectrum disorder may have superior skills in systematizing - that is, analyzing or constructing systems to understand the world. They do this by noting regularities, structures and rules within systems. This leads such individuals to focus on fully understanding individual systems. A system is anything that follows rules. It might be

a mechanical system (e.g., a machine or a spinning wheel)

an abstract system (e.g., number patterns, the syntax of a language, timetables)

a natural system (e.g., water flow, or the weather)

a collectible system (e.g., classifying objects such as DVDs by author or toy cars by shape, colour, size).

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@contrex,
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Professor Baron Cohen

Simon Baron Cohen - Borat's cousin! (And Ali G's)
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