Mental illness is a hard thing to wrap one's head around, particularly for people who live the life of the mind. That does not immunize you.
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Some hardware gets better after a while for no reason. Some can be repaired. Some will never be fixed. Some never worked in the usual sense.
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@patio11 John Nash had a terrifying line about how his delusions felt true in exactly the same way his proofs did. -
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@patio11 a whole book on that feeling: http://www.amazon.com/On-Being-Certain-Believing-Right/dp/031254152X …
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@patio11 Software/hardware doesn’t apply. We’re wetware: Bags of slime w/ curious emergent behaviours; randomly made & non-randomly culled.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@patio11 Agree. But taken too far, the analogy leads to Cartesian dualism, which is one reason for the misunderstanding of mental illness.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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