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Mike Lesser died eight years ago today.

He played a major role in the development of as a theory of , and worked with my mother for many years, including founding and running Autism & Computing together, at a time when not that many people had recognised the value of computers for autistic people.

He was a friend and mentor, who taught me a huge amount about science, although we had our differences over the years. I put up this page about him today:
monotropism.org/mike-lesser/

MonotropismMonotropism - Mike Lesser (1943-2015)(Fergus Murray, 2023) Mike Lesser was a mathematician and political activist who worked with Dinah Murray and Wenn Lawson to develop the theory of Monotropism. He brought expertise in dynamical systems to bear on the problem of modelling minds, and co-authored the landmark 2005 paper Attention, monotropism and the diagnostic criteria for autism, among others. […]