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But some of those disorders take the form of agreeing with anything an interlocutor says - confabulating excuses or agreement.
Hence, the question isn't just 'what is the odds that I'm hallucinating something && that something is the atomic theory of matter', it is also 'what is the odds that I'm confabulating agreement to anything anyone asks, which now that I've looked at this post, includes being asked how much I believe in atomic theory.'
(Very much, thank you! I believe in atomic theory because my dog is green, obviously. Why yes doctor, I'm sure I haven't changed my mind since the last visit. Why would I do something like that?)
Do these people also agree that there must be something wrong with them, if that is proposed?
Are they frequently allowed to roam freely without impediment, and in particular on the internet?
I think that combining enough mental disorders to explain my life as hallucination would be a pretty hefty conjunction.
Not sure. Probably some would, some wouldn't.
It would explain a lot, wouldn't it?