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=== Writing Style and Autistic Linguistic Density === Wiener’s books, including ''Cybernetics'' (1948), ''The Human Use of Human Beings'' (1950), and ''God & Golem, Inc.'' (1964), are dense, recursive, and intensely abstract. His prose is '''semantically compressed''', packed with theoretical neologisms, nested clauses, and few concessions to the reader’s emotional pace. His writing is not pedagogical—it is '''structural''', echoing the inner systems of his mind. This is why I consider Wiener a strong example of '''Autistic Linguistic Density (ALD)''': a formal trait I’ve identified in figures like James Joyce, Emily Dickinson, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose writing reflects '''compressed inner logic'''rather than social narrative. ----
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