Posted by kid47 on April 8, 2005, at 14:05:59
In reply to Re: Insight, posted by used2b on April 8, 2005, at 13:43:51
>The idea that increased insight is superior might be grandiose, and any attribution of value to insight outside a proven context might be dillusional. But the insights are most likely a result of real etiology and the underlying perceptions are likely often coherent.
> Genetics most likely play some role, but I suspect it has to do with thalamic gating. Aculturated people limit information available to there cerebral processes by training thalamic responses to familiar stimulus. Maybe it is the result of trauma, transience, training, disillusionment, genetics or some other factor, but some people's thalamus doesn't as readily limit the flow of information to the cerebrum. Uncontrollably open gates at the thalamus are likely related to schizophrenia and other disorders, but not everyone who walks around with an open thalamus is severely disabled. Those who can dialate their thalamic busses while retaining some sort of socially acceptable mental organization end up with capacities you seem to describe and I seem to recognize from my own experience.
>Difficulty in prioritizing possible outcomes could be related to some loop in the back-end of the forebrain, where signals are assessed for continued consideration or immediate action. But those difficulties could as much be a product of your experiences as they could be a fundamental psychopathology. The problem with social difficulties arising from unusual neurological organization is that we often have layers of secondary symptoms, many of which develop their own momentum and can appear primary. Communities don't generally care how or why one is different, they just don't want to have to deal with unusual differences, especially those that tend to call into question their own social order.>>EXACTLY! whew
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