{"id":22854,"date":"2014-03-02T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T05:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=22854"},"modified":"2018-09-18T15:40:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T19:40:13","slug":"qotd-the-voices-are-coming-from-inside-your-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/03\/02\/qotd-the-voices-are-coming-from-inside-your-head\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The voices are coming from inside your head"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The thesis of the article was simple: though the content of schizophrenic delusions changes wildly in different cultural contexts, there\u2019s an underlying motivation for them that never varies and produces a fundamental sameness.<\/p>\n<p>The simple, constant thing is that delusional schizophrenics lose the capability to identify all the thoughts in their head as belonging to themselves. In an effort to make sense of their experience, they invent elaborate theories which attribute their disconnected thoughts to external agencies. Gods, demons, orbital mind-control lasers &mdash; the content of such delusions varies wildly, but the function is always the same &mdash; to restore a sense of causal order to the schizophrenic\u2019s universe, to impose a narrative on the eruptions that he or she can no longer recognize as \u201cself\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a startling shift in perspective to realize that the construction of schizophrenic delusions arises from the same drive that yields scientific theory-building. Both are Heideggerian rearrangements of the cognitive toolkit, strategies driven by the necessity of coping with the experienced world. The schizophrenic\u2019s tragedy is that the most important fact about his or her experiential world (how much of it is self looking at self) is inaccessible.<\/p>\n<p>Eric S. Raymond, <a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=5069\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Sometimes I hear voices&#8221;, <em>Armed and Dangerous<\/em><\/a>, 2013-10-06<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thesis of the article was simple: though the content of schizophrenic delusions changes wildly in different cultural contexts, there\u2019s an underlying motivation for them that never varies and produces a fundamental sameness. The simple, constant thing is that delusional schizophrenics lose the capability to identify all the thoughts in their head as belonging to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,41,16],"tags":[1235,906,139],"class_list":["post-22854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-quotations","category-science","tag-esr","tag-mentalhealth","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5WC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22856,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22854\/revisions\/22856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}