Posted by SLS on September 23, 2006, at 4:00:39 [reposted on September 25, 2006, at 0:09:09 | original URL]
In reply to Re: the brain, posted by alexandra_k on September 22, 2006, at 18:15:17
> about addition.
> if you add things in you don't leave things out.
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> e.g.,
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> lets say you have 2
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> then you add 5
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> so now you have 2 5What happened to Gestalt? Emergent properties? 7?
Then we are in agreement. You can't get to 5 without going through 2, so 5 depends on 2. Without 2, you have no 5, and thus, no 7. Sometimes, all you need is to treat the 2, and then 5 and 7 become possible when they had not been previously.
Some people don't see the 2 or the 5. They see only the 7 - the Gestalt - and attempt to treat the emergent properties. Are you in favor of treating the emergent properties only, and hope that the 2 and 5 are taken care of automatically?
I might have missed some of the dialogue along this thread, so I apologize if I am repeating questions that have already been asked of you.
If your brother or cousin or uncle were to display classic bipolar I manic behavior, and were detained at the county jail for public nudity in a shopping mall and yelling out to people that he was the second coming of the Messiah while passing out flyers to come see him in his own rodeo that he was to perform at the Whitehouse, how would you treat him? For the sake of this example, let us say that he has been diagnosed as DSM IV-R Bipolar I Disorder and that alternative diagnoses have been eliminated. He is a manic depressive. What are you going to do for this family member? He is on no medication, and this is his first episode. He will not listen to anyone, as he is determined that he is the Way. When spoken to, he either cannot speak coherently on a single topic, often asking to know what is in his mailbox, or begins to recite passages of the Bible, particularly when challenged.
It might be that you and I agree on this. I will be interested to see.
And from the previous post, you neglected to answer my question: Do you think schizophrenia is a biological disorder?
- Scott
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