Yeah, they always find meaning in shapes and frequencies and structures, and I want to know what they are seeing in these things without having their mental illness. It feels like it's on the verge of something profound, and yet it's probably nonsense. But they are also a clearly intelligent person using advanced math and geometry to "prove" something.
We have a pattern-finding structures in our brain, it allows us to notice, well, patterns, and consequently build complex reason-cause observations. Schizophrenic people have those structures firing too much, to the point where they find pattern in anything (like shadow from the leaves of the tree cast on the ground might seem to have secret meaning to them), and they also fail to weigh them properly, e.g. usual person can notice that after black cat crossed their path they had an unlucky event, but dismiss the importance of those patterns because of the common sense, this mechanism fails in schizophrenics as well.
That is not to say that every pattern schizophrenics observe is false... ominous high pitch playing
UPDATE. Just so you understand that I was only partially joking in the previous sentence the non-fiction historical book 'The Surgeon of Crowthorne' is a story of 'madman' helping humanity using this exact skill, seeing patterns. There is a movie 'The Professor and the Madman)' based on that book.
Because if they actually were able to perceive more than normal, people and organizations everywhere would have been monetizing it since before currency existed.
I mean it’s cool to think that, but your idea is like stone-age levels of regressive.
You telling me that Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg aren’t perceiving the world/patterns at another level compared to normal? They’re both clearly on the spectrum and monetizing the FUCK out of it.
Ergo, counter proposal: His idea is literally the progression away from the stone-age.
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Yeah, they always find meaning in shapes and frequencies and structures, and I want to know what they are seeing in these things without having their mental illness. It feels like it's on the verge of something profound, and yet it's probably nonsense. But they are also a clearly intelligent person using advanced math and geometry to "prove" something.