1. ineffability 2. noetic quality 3. transiency 4. passivity 5. unity of opposites 6. timelessness 7. encountering "the true self" http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.601.4094&rep=rep1&type=pdf …
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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the ones that don't seem to map at all though are "encounters with True Self" and "unity of opposites". maybe those are cultural priming effects but they are reproduced in many different cultures in many different historical eras, so I think it's interesting whatever it is.
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I think "oneness/unity of opposites" / True Self thing are interesting, but also generally hard to parse for "outsider" (hallucinations and "noetic experience of knowing sorta-apriori" are much easier to imagine!)
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I guess at a minimum we might be able to say that ME seems to involve a lot of introspectively perceived anomalies, and it is not immediately obvious how does, say, a transient psychosis with relatively well structured delusion compare.
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