Re: Many worlds theory of immortality

[Stathis Papaioannou]

I doubt that there are many people who have known someone with a mental 
illness and would claim that there is anything positive about the 
experience. While sometimes the mentally ill themselves claim that they have 
a superior insight into reality, that's just because they lack insight into 
the fact that they are unwell. However, what mental illness, or any other 
disease, does provide is a natural experiment that helps us understand the 
normal function of the affected organ or system. For just this reason, in 
medical research, one of the most common experimental tools is to 
deliberately cause lesions in an experimental animal and observe the 
resulting effects.

--Stathis Papaioannou
From: "Jesse Mazer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], everything-list@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: Many worlds theory of immortality
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 14:48:17 -0400
Generally, unasked-for attempts at armchair psychology to explain the 
motivations of another poster on an internet forum, like the comment that 
someone "just wants to hear themself talk", are justly considered flames 
and tend to have the effect of derailing productive discussion. I actually 
agree with your other comments about it being implausible that the mentally 
ill have some sort of superior insight into reality, but hey, this list is 
all about rambling speculations about half-formed ideas that probably won't 
pan out to anything, you could just as easily level the same accusation 
against anyone here.

Jesse
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