Originally posted by tmk81
It may be that you are suspicious of my mental state without fully realizing the scope of my experience. Without evidence your position is not going to accept what I have to say so there is no use in debating you. It is either real or not.
I'm sorry you feel that there is no use debating me.
Originally posted by tmk81If you choose not to accept it and feel the need to diagnose me then I expect a circumspect response as to why you consider my daily abuse to be isolated to my mind with no external reality. So far not one person has provided such an argument, instead they have said:
1. I have a mental illness (especially considering my drug use): either schizophrenia due to the disturbances and/or delusional disorder due to the hypothesis. This diagnosis is based on pop-psychology, drug effects and common knowledge of reality.
You're extending my argument. I haven't diagnosed you. I have asked you to consider the possibility. I have used the modal verbs could or may to express the possibility that your experiences may be psychosis.
There's an obvious distinction between what I've said & what you've interpreted me as saying.
Originally posted by tmk81Pandora's box is set to open, if you catch my drift.
Catching "your drift" is not a problem.
Originally posted by tmk81
your belief that there is near omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent quantum computer controlling almost every action you take seems like a compensatory reaction to the possibility that you're just ill.
You are not an expert on my situation & you have made false and exaggerated claims about my beliefs.
True, I'm no expert. I am merely a concerned & interested person who has been around a host of friends and acquaintances who have been through drug induced psychosis. I am merely attempting to open the possibility up for your consideration (though I know from previous posts that you have been down that route).
Take this as a healthy dialectic.
And again, a distinction needs to be drawn between what you state are my claims about your beliefs, and what I have actually wrote:
Originally posted by Extant TaxonAnd as other posters have mentioned, your reality tunnel is fascinating but consider that your experiences, past & present, could be informing you of a paradigm that you are investing in far too heavily and is causing you to believe that you have no free will, that you are being controlled by forces beyond your ken. This could all well be down to your state of mind rather than a state of fact.
Originally posted by Extant TaxonIt's not that I think that voice to skull & other psychotronic manipulation definitely does not exist, & that pyschotic symptoms could be enduced that simulate schizophrenia, but your belief that there is near omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent quantum computer controlling almost every action you take seems like a compensatory reaction to the possibility that you're just ill.
I made no concrete "diagnosis".
As for the "exaggerated claims" about your beliefs (note that this is belief you mention, not knowledge or fact) your quantum computer would be near God-like as evidenced by it's abilities you list in your original post:
Military AI Supercomputer Mind Monitoring: What I have learned
If what it can do is not near God-like I don't what is.
Originally posted by tmk81What part of the river metaphor did you not understand?
Your simplistic river metaphor is not what I'm discussing. Your beliefs are.
This is only the voice of a possible alternate view. Be well.
[edit on 26/4/09 by Extant Taxon]


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