Article about schizophrenia in today's Sunday Times
A. J. Moss
section, page 8) about a possible link between schizophrenia and the
evolution of the human species. I get the paper from a newsagent, but
you should be able to find the article on www.sunday-times.co.uk.
The theory is based on the observations that all races of people have
the same proportion of schizophrenics in their populations, and
children in families with a history of schizophrenia are more likely
to be very high achievers. The supposition is that the same genetic
differences that predispose someone to schizophrenia are the ones that
first made people interested in art, religion and technology: in other
words, the things which allow us to evolve as human beings and which
differentiate us from other primates.
But:
Today is April 1; any article in the media which seems slightly
unusual must be treated with great suspicion. So, can anyone here
vouch for the plausibility of the article?
Rolf Marvin Bře Lindgren
| There's an article in today's (London) Sunday Times (News Review
| section, page 8) about a possible link between schizophrenia and the
| evolution of the human species. I get the paper from a newsagent, but
| you should be able to find the article on www.sunday-times.co.uk.
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/04/01/stirevnws03011.html
| Today is April 1; any article in the media which seems slightly
| unusual must be treated with great suspicion. So, can anyone here
| vouch for the plausibility of the article?
it's not likely to be a joke.
--
Rolf Lindgren, | http://www.roffe.com/
cand.psychol. |
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TigerLilly
"A. J. Moss" <ajm...@macpaint.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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It's under Contents, and is called "There's madness in mankind's method."
Not too hard to find.
I've speculated about exactly this, and I know others have also, so it's
interesting to see that "experts" are considering the possibility also.
Lily
mahja-urana
TigerLilly wrote:
before i went 'mad' i was trying to find some kind of absolute genius, and
the line between madness and genius was fading before i flipped sides
i kinda assumed there'd be others with similar ideas..
Andrew Whorrall
"mahja-urana" <snaf...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Same here i was studying A.I at university (comming up with mental ideas all
the time) abd then i flipped
pff ft
evolved as a kind of 'adaptive' strategy.
esp if one sees it as part of the same spectrum of
'ways of being' as the shamanic and religious.
just as 'normal' consciousness is adaptive for
9-5 tribal wage-slave survival. i.e. 'normal'
consciousness is not necessarily more in tune
with 'reality', just more in tune with the contemporary
requirements for survival, which in themselves are quite
the aberration with respect to the past 100,000 years or so.
the question is then what are the adaptive survival benefits
of sz? it is certainly not too clear in this 'modern'
culture, but in other times and cultures over the last 100,000
years or so, it might have made a lot more 'sense'.
fwiw, 'Madness and Modernism' by Louis Sass
is one book that argues
for the super-normal attributes of sz.
(no doubt there are others)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674541375
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Kathleen
mahja-urana
Andrew Whorrall wrote:
i think mental illness is common amongst psychologists..
if you keep investigating others sanity, it seems it wouldn't take long before
questioning your own