what's the difference between "mystical experience" and psychosis, other than emotional valence? Srs question btw
this source characterizes psychosis of having these qualities and I can see how you could produce a mapping from those to the qualities of ME. 1. delusions 2. hallucinations 3. disorganized speech 4. disorganized or catatonic behavior http://psychology.jrank.org/pages/516/Psychosis.html …
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but you don't get symmetry really. noetic experiences and delusions might look like a mapping but the way a person behaves afterwards and integrates the experience is vastly different in practice. a noetic experience tends to produce a belief similar to "empirically validated"
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whereas a delusion tends to be quite groundless. the mystic will often say "I can't rationallly account for this in the same I can't rationally account for the feeling of solidity of the table" but they accept the reality of it as a ground truth.
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delusions are rarely like that, right? tend towards extravagance and the characteristic "disorganized" features of psychosis. so I think that's more than just emotional valence but a qualitative difference of the phenomenon as experienced by the person.
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That actually depends on the psychosis. While later schizophrenic ones tend to be disorganized, relatively early on delusional beliefs can and often are well structured and even relatively plausible. Transient psychotic episodes may also feature delusions that (later?) become
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well-integrated into patient's worldview even if the patient takes it at face value. Degree of overall legibility/structure quality of delusions is really a continuum in psychosis, with largely unstructured, confabulatory things on one end and very precise and empirically
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plausible account of le traditional aliens invading earth on other end.
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