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I have doubts about the authors intentions: Look up the wikipedia article and in the past he has done things of questionable integrity to be popular. He is a good storyteller and there is strong criticism from the medical professionals about his skewed views about ineffectiveness of current treatment methods. He does not cite enough references for such a hevayweight topic. I have no problem in him presenting a new perspective, but this is more of getting into the bestseller book list by telling you what you wish to hear.
I am curious why "human compatible" patterns would be only found in primates etc.? Aren't these about molecular mechanisms and proteins? Is it hard to translate the results to humans if some promising mechanism is found in more basic molecular level?
It is indeed a good way of looking at architecture and networking. But to me it is more of a hindsight tool or validation of things you already know, than a learning resource for someone who doesn't know details of architecture.
I agree,but isn't the article a good step towards educating the public about the nuances of these diseases? I think the spectrum is so broad, and maybe it will help the people with milder symptoms at it's tail end by making the society more receptive. I have a relative who is scheizophrenic and I can't stress how important it is to make people aware, and enable them to see from a compassionate angle. To me this article goes in the same direction as the remarkable article done years ago by Rachel Aviv [1] To me we need more like this. And also the article does mention how the researchers stress on proper diagnosis and treatment.
Got busy, just got a chance to respond. I'm all about raising awareness and have experienced first hand the stigma of having a mental disorder like schizophrenia. It's not fun. The stigmatization or the condition. In fact, being schizophrenic is nothing short of extensional horror. Associating a metal disorder, like schizophrenia, with "psychics", I feel would only further stigmatize people with mental disorders and lessen the seriousness of the condition to the public. I would find it disheartening that someone would get the idea that talking to a psychic would somehow improve the condition of a person with a mental disorder. We need to raise awareness about these things but people need to be aware of the woeful lack the available treatment programs and the high cost of medication the prevents us from getting better, not that a "psychic" could somehow help in any way.
Interesting research on how hallucinations relate to "an increase in tiny movements in the muscles associated with vocalization".
Maybe the movements and the brain activity causing that happen first, and the "consciousness" just try to interpret that in the best way it can.(I think there are some patterns here that is much like the "interpretations" described in the split brain studies [1]). When the signals get too weird and does not fit in to any interpretation that is defined as "normal", we go into the Schizophrenia territory.
I like that theory. Maybe much of what we associate with the word "consciousness" are the mental models which cannot exist without language, like the social aspects Yuval Noah Harari talks about.
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