On on Vortex can we turn an "Off Topic Thread" thread to science.
Congratulations! Terry On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Jed Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DonW wrote: > > "Several former rivals have pointed to her > uncanny ability to make emotional connections with voters, even when > she can't answer a question." > > Both of the above are major *FLAGS* for ADHD. I should know .. I have this > condition. . . . > > These people can be very chrismatic, are experts at circular logic and > usually pathological liars. > > When they are unscripted, they have major issues with memory LINKAGE. They > have the memories but have delayed access to them, usually minutes - hours - > days after needed. This results in a subconscious effort to fill in the > memory holes; hence the pathological lies. > > Wow. Thanks for discussion what must be a painful thing to deal with. > > The process of filling in "memory holes" -- as you call them -- is observed > in other conditions, such as long term memory loss. An extreme example was > described by Oliver Sacks for a patient with Korsakov's syndrome > (amnesic-confabulatory syndrome). It is not lying because the person > momentarily believes the statements are true. It is "confabulating." Sacks > also describes holes: > > [The patient] remembered nothing for more than a few seconds. He was > continually disoriented. Abysses of amnesia continually open beneath him, > but he would bridge them, nimbly, by fluid confabulations and fictions all > kinds. For him they were not fictions, but how he suddenly saw, or > interpreted, the world. . . . So far as he was concerned, there was nothing > the matter . . . > > - "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for Hat," p. 109 > > > Since they believe in what they are saying (at the moment), and the "memory > fills" are tailored to the event/person in front of them, they can be > chrismatic. > > Yes. That's what Sacks and others say. > > - Jed >
