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4. What are diagnoses even. Are they real (there's a whole literature by MDs & PhDs trying to suss this out) That said, not a shrink but I've worked professionally alongside them and had things shaken out differently, I might have been one. TH shows some signs of what old scho

school gets called "florid psychosis". What I'm interested in here is how in some people living with shizophrenia, from a neurosci perspective a trait that's common is what you could call hyperactive sense-making. Pattern recognition in overdrive. One expression of this is..

captured in the language of "abberant salience", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salience_(neuroscience)#Aberrant_salience_hypothesis_of_schizophrenia … Anyways, I get a big flavour of that from TH in his affect, the form and content of how he presents and relates

Part of me is curious what @slatestarcodex would say about this. He oughtn't, and won't, publicly comment as he has a license to protect and ethical obligations to fulfill, but the intersection of math + spiritual crank + *possible* psych history is extremely his bailiwick

https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1177487305767997441?s=20 … Couple of further thoughts: Stanislav Grof would love this guy

And I've been doing some thinking about the ethical valences of TH meme material. For now, I am feeling like it's ethically good-enough to proceed with TH content. If his situation changes, then reevaluate. But from what I've seen so far, I think we should go ahead.

Still shots from the red carpet video (with subtitles already done) Galaxy brain memes. Possibly some new forms could emerge, or remixes of old favourites with new imagery like the flower of life. Yeah, I've touched on some heavier stuff and I'm glad I did...

...but I am all in on this Pythagorean revival let a thousand flowers (of life) bloom