Quoting VI Burachynsky "Out of curiosity why 40% only , did the other mathematicians pay someone off or get the socially correct answers ahead of time? "
Think she was alluding to those mathematicians who study other dimensions as part of their work, or argue for their existence -- as being dilusional. Seems those who can't envision certain things want to label those who can, or those who study possible existence of such, as living in a dilusional world. Thus being schizophrenic. Wonder -- is this a growing controversy about sci-fi movies and such? Wonder how far they want to take it? hmmmmm. If the term schizophrenic had existed when the world was "discussing"whether it was round or flat -- would those arguing for round have been labeled schizophrenics? They were certainly believed to be dilusional for a long time. Finally, if you can handle a bit more meandering on subject -- when studying psychology for a time, I learned there was a growing contingent who wanted to label all those who truly believe there is a Jesus Christ as having a brain defect. Something about a part of their brain being different than those who don't believe in Jesus Christ. They called it "religiousity". (Not talking about those who believe they actually ARE Jesus Christ.) We got into very interesting discussions about the issue of when you have two groups -- one who believes something and the other who does not believe it (atheists, I guess, in this case) -- which one is the abnormal group? I raised the point that the group who are atheists might be the group that has a part of their brain missing. That caused a bit of consternation. My point when having two groups -- referring back to the mathematicians who are working on ways to define other dimensions more clearly, vs. those not working on such, that labeling either group seems a bit misplaced, and can lead to very faulty scientific research. Seems we just need to be a bit more open to varying points of view, trying to understand the experiences of those on each side. Leads to some good questions, which can lead to more interesting research and understanding. Peggy Miller
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