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

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Comment author: RomanDavis 20 August 2012 04:03:46PM 2 points [-]

I ocassionally entertained ideas like that in the back of my mind. Truman Show, Teachers are aliens, Parents somehow know everything/ everything about me and are just fucking with me in the way that Zeus would to test character, except over a much longer Santa Clause/ Jesus esque period of time, the mothman is watching me, there are invisible monsters/ demons all around me and I need to be very sneaky not to be seen.

I'm not sure I believed them, exactly. Maybe I did. Maybe I didn't. I still do the same stuff sometimes, with equally wierd things. Whenever I start half way believing in god or track of thought in my bain giving arbitrary commands is the voice of God, I just start doing experiments against the rest of reality til the shadow of belief goes away, since they never line up with testable reality. I've never had actual hallucinations, though, as far as I know.