I doubt that there are many people who have known someone with a mental
illness and would claim that there is anything positive about the
experience. While sometimes the mentally ill themselves claim that they have
a superior insight into reality, that's just because they lack insight into
the fact that they are unwell. However, what mental illness, or any other
disease, does provide is a natural experiment that helps us understand the
normal function of the affected organ or system. For just this reason, in
medical research, one of the most common experimental tools is to
deliberately cause lesions in an experimental animal and observe the
resulting effects.
--Stathis Papaioannou
>From: "Jesse Mazer" <lasermazer.domain.name.hidden>
>To: aet.radal.ssg.domain.name.hidden, everything-list.domain.name.hidden.com
>Subject: Re: Many worlds theory of immortality
>Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 14:48:17 -0400
>
>Generally, unasked-for attempts at armchair psychology to explain the
>motivations of another poster on an internet forum, like the comment that
>someone "just wants to hear themself talk", are justly considered flames
>and tend to have the effect of derailing productive discussion. I actually
>agree with your other comments about it being implausible that the mentally
>ill have some sort of superior insight into reality, but hey, this list is
>all about rambling speculations about half-formed ideas that probably won't
>pan out to anything, you could just as easily level the same accusation
>against anyone here.
>
>Jesse
>
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