A Beautiful Schizophrenia [was: Re: AI Eureka!]

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"Charles R Martin" <crmartin at indra.com> wrote in message
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> "gmb" <gmb at nomail.com> writes:
>
> > "Charles R Martin" <crmartin at indra.com> wrote in message
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> > > "Geoffrey A. Landis" <geoffrey.landis at sff.net> writes:
> > >
> > > > > use.my.name at acm.org (jimirwin) wrote:
> > > > > > After seeing "A Beautiful Mind" I've begun to wonder if some of
> > these
> > > > > > "cranks" are merely deluded.
> > > >
> > > > I've recently been struck by the fact that great parts of Usenet
(and
> > > > the web) are uncannily similar to the conspiracy ravings of paranoid
> > > > schizophrenics.  It occurs to me that there's no prohibition against
> > > > schizophrenics buying computers, and many of the wacky parts of the
web
> > > > probably *are* the work of paranoid schizophrenics.  (Unfortunately,
the
> > > > web seems to serve as an amplifier.)
> > >
> > > I'll go a step further with this: I've wondered (eg with conspiracy
> > > theorists) if there isn't some kind of "subclinical schizopheria"
> > > involved.  Schizophrenia appears to be pretty completely an organic
> > > problem now; the last I read anything about it, the theory that it was
> > > caused by some malfunction of NDMA glutamate receptors was popular, or
> > > more loosely by some kind of limbic defect.  As such, it's entirely
> > > likely that there's some kind of "spectrum" there; it'd be easy for
> > > there to be subclinical manifestations of the same _kind_ of defect.
> >
> > UFO and conspiracies are a classic american phenomena, a
> > something so typical of the american society. Teen girls especially,
love
> [word salad deleted]
> > and people. These things sell. They bring money. They also
> > create a generation of people who are totally off in lala land.
> > Art Bell show comes to mind.
>
> I can't decide if that was an excessively elaborate troll or an example.
>
> --
>
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degraded
> state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth
war is
> much worse.  A man who has  nothing for which  he is willing to  fight,
nothing
> which is more  important than his own personal safety,  is a miserable
creature
> and has  no chance of being  free unless made and  kept so by  the
exertions of
> better men than himself.                                    -- John Stuart
Mill
>
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> Charles R (Charlie) Martin                              Broomfield, CO 40N
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