http://mindhacks.com/2006/12/21/delusions-and-insight-on-abc-all-in-the-mind/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Fri, 24 May 2013 17:03:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2006/12/21/delusions-and-insight-on-abc-all-in-the-mind/#comment-7632 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 01:33:32 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2006/12/21/delusions-and-insight-on-abc-all-in-the-mind/#comment-7632 Daniel,
“These people” like any people trust their sensory perceptions. The system works like a computer…except with an emotional element, if the data is corrupted then emotions (anger, confusion, fear set in) making it even more difficult to distinguish between reliable and corrupted data.
Because people’s perceptions of situations vary so much then it is a very valid point that the discrepancies in the doctor & patient evaluations of the patient’s condition could just as easily be the fault of the doctor…who let’s face it, doesn’t spend a great deal of time with the patient so doesn’t really know what their real situation is.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2006/12/21/delusions-and-insight-on-abc-all-in-the-mind/#comment-7631 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:09:26 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2006/12/21/delusions-and-insight-on-abc-all-in-the-mind/#comment-7631 Why don’t people “realise these experiences are in any way strange or unusual”?
“If I knew what a hallucination was I would know what reality was.”
Philip K Dick, in the essay ‘Will the Atomic Bomb Ever be Perfected, And if so, What becomes of Robert Heinlein?’
Any who *knows* what reality is? ; )

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