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[Alexandr Korol]

in a similar way to, an “autist.” But not an autist — that’s something completely different. Because an autist cannot control anything, and he has attention on certain things and no attention on others. But here it’s different — here, the child is fine with attention; it’s simply special, childlike, not adult. But the child — he can be eating porridge and completely plunge into examining all the little bubbles on the porridge. It is so curious to him, but he does this in the process, in the moment. And the child is always in such a moment. He will glance out the window and go off into it so completely that he is directly observing how the cat out there is hunting a bird. It’s so interesting to him, he is only in this. And the point is that nothing troubles him. He has no noises in his head. That is — when he is watching how the cat hunts a crow in the yard, while the child sits there, eats his porridge, and looks out the window, the child has no thoughts, you understand, like adults have: that he must repay a debt tomorrow, or that tomorrow he must not forget to take the second-shoes to the polyclinic. He doesn’t think about this. And about what was yesterday, he doesn’t think. He doesn’t have these noises. He is only here and now, and he is simply watching how the crow teases the cat, and how the cat wants to catch it. And the child is completely in this. But what is most curious is that the child also doesn’t feel time. That is — while he sits there and eats this porridge and watches how the crow hops outside the window, he doesn’t know how much time has passed at all. He cannot think about this. That is — his head could, in principle, even start to ache, if you were to make him think about this. He just ate his porridge, and he doesn’t know. That is, he is outside of time — specifically, of the evaluation of time. Time exists, he simply does not evaluate it, and he doesn’t know whether he was eating this porridge for 5 minutes, or 10 minutes, or 1 hour. Only his parents can tell him this. And his parents remind him what to do. The child can get up and walk into the room and play there, and he’ll leave the plate. But he didn’t leave it because he remembers and knows, and deliberately did this to annoy you, parents. No — he simply cannot think about this. You have to remind him. And when the child has eaten his porridge, you say to him: “Wash the plate, or put it in the sink.” And then the child will do it. But otherwise he simply won’t do it, because a second after he has eaten, he can already be focused on something else, and he will no longer remember that he ate, or that there is a plate on the table, you understand. The child also doesn’t have an evaluation of the mind, as it were — but he can, of course, have moments of mind