"John H." <bingblat from goaway.com.au> wrote in message
news:13efbr6c50rm9a from corp.supernews.com...
>I once said to an acquaintance who was an psychiatrist that there was
> linkage between psychosis and intelligence. He just laughed and said that
> was wrong. I knew at the time he was wrong but I wasn't in a putting right
> mood so let it go. The Icelandic epidemiologist John Karlsson first drew
> attention to the linkage. There has always been strong anecdotal evidence.
I found this web document reporting on Jon Karlssons research:
http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/39/11/36
I recommend you to use www.youtube.com to check out the history and
capabilities of Daniel Tammet (marvelous guy) and people near enough like
him.
> So one day I went medlining and it didn't take long to realise that the
> linkage is strong but most significantly very strong for the first degree
> relatives of schizophrenics. There's a selection pressure for you, perhaps
> some bad genes being piggy backed on way. Don't know, don't like genetics.
> John Forbes Nash once said the psychotic voices were of similiar origin as
> his mathematical ideas.
>> As usually, however ... it came to my attention many years ago that
> homosexuals seem to be rather clever. I came to this conclusion because of
> Turing, Newton(tricky that one), Keynes, Wittgenstein, all leaders in
> their
> field if not outright pioneers. So I went medlining one day and sure
> enough
> read as above but linkages not as strong.
>> There is also a very strong linkage between literary creativity and
> depression. The studies on that are striking.
The main 'fuel' [or insidious, more or less successfully ambiadvantageously
handled dynamic force/factor] behind this particular correlation and behind
closely related other 'psychological phenomena') is of course CURSES.
><snip>
> some say faith is dead. Damn fools!
Yes, faith is unfortunately not fading-out as fast as would be favorable for
'fast-tracking' practical implementations of potential policies that would
(as far as realistically possible) en masse promote (or increase the degree
of) ALQholism in people.
[By "faith" I here meant not just irrational and intolerant religious
beliefs but also any *other* form of irrationality or inertly involved
psychological obstacles (created by any lifetime challenges whose
conditioning effects have incapacitated people's otherwise potentially
optimized overall capacity for analytical AND emotional intelligence).]
Cheers
P
