OnTheOtherHandle comments on Bayes for Schizophrenics: Reasoning in Delusional Disorders - Less Wrong

88 Post author: Yvain 13 August 2012 07:22PM

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Comment author: OnTheOtherHandle 19 August 2012 11:01:36PM *  2 points [-]

Interesting; thanks.

Also, do you know if Capgras delusion only wipes away all previous emotions you associated with faces, or if it also makes it impossible to form new emotions related to other faces? What if, for some reason, the spouse decided to go along with the charade that they were a different person, and managed to convince the Capgras patient to stay married to them anyway? Would the patient eventually form an emotional connection the way normal people do when they meet, date, and marry someone? Or if a Capgras patient had a child after the brain damage, would they associate their child's face with emotions while still considering their spouse and parents to be imposters?

Comment author: adavies42 25 August 2012 07:18:46AM *  2 points [-]

There is alleged to have been a Capgras patient who wasn't very happy with her marriage beforehand, but decided she liked the "imposter" much better. No cite, I think it was in a TED talk.