I’m searching the way out of my mind.
I am too absorbed in my mind.
What if I call my psychiatrist?
I like him. But if he is part of the plot?
Is he a robot too? Empty inside?
Only externally resembling a human being.
It is pure idealism buddy. In a sense you are right. World is our design. It means objects cannot exists without you designing it and you cant exist without the object that makes you design. And it goes for the subjects too. I cant exist the way you design me without you. But I can exist the way I design myself cause I have cogito like you. I am you and you are me. There is no world without the way human mind construct in fact if you want to think outside of the world that we shape you fall in to the same world again, outside of the world is construct too! That doesnt means that world is fake. It’s fake but in its own authentic real form as it can be
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Idealism, right. Subjective idealism.
Anyway. How can I change my mind?
I’m not sure if it’s harmful way of thinking.
It surely causes loneliness and despair in a world of P- zombies or fake robots
Maybe its the other way around. Your solitude made you alienated to other beings. Maybe this will help you what you refer to God is in everything even what you call fake robots. Do you feel insecure or just alienated?
Not insecure. No. Just away from everything.
In a fantasy world, in a castle in the middle of the desert, in the middle of nowhere. Alone.
My consciousness expands as space expands and covers the whole universe.
Did you ever have this kind of beliefs?
Have you experienced them first hand?
Yes few times. But not diagnosed as psychosis. You didnt remember me aa Im sad. You blocked me on instagram remember? lol
Why did I block you? I don’t understand
You found me offensive dont you remember?
No, I don’t remember anything. Sorry. My memory is bad. What did you say? Were you really offensive?
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No and we talked on facebook in summer. But I closed my account. Anyways message me and I will give you my username.
And you have a really great insight. In a castle in the middle of the desert; perfect metaphor for isolation and psychosis. You taught me that everything is mind!
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Anyone else facing the same loneliness?
The voices seem more real than people around me. Could it be a game of God to test me?
I am like super mario, playing on many levels.
1. Introduction
“Schizophrenia” has long been a controversial category, its boundaries uncertain, its essence ill-defined. This remains true more than a century after it was first conceived. Voices questioning its validity have been recently on the rise: some reject the category, claiming it conflates distinct illnesses and impedes research and treatment. Others, more cognizant of psychiatric history, are less sanguine about discarding it, but seek refinements. “Schizophrenia” is the worst of all diagnostic concepts, so it may seem—at least until one considers the alternatives (Jaspers, 1963 p. 568).
Prominent among recent attempts to define schizophrenia is the ipseity-disturbance or self-disorder hypothesis (Sass & Parnas, 2003; Sass 2010), a contemporary formulation of something long recognized: the presence of difficult-to-define yet distinctive alterations of consciousness or the sense of subjectivity. Jaspers, Schneider, and Conrad were among those who emphasized a “radical qualitative change in the thought processes” that involved diminished first personal givenness and mineness of experience ( Meinhaftigkeit ) (Schneider, 1959, p. 100). This paper clarifies the contemporary self-disorder hypothesis and its current status, then focuses on lacunae in current understanding and on some recent and future research that might further its investigation.
With all its flaws, the construct “schizophrenia” does seem to indicate some subtle but underlying factor at the core of a psychiatric condition that is perhaps best conceived as a syndrome (and probably represents a final common pathway with diverse etiological origins). But how best to characterize this condition, given its protean and ephemeral manifestations and varied definitions? Jasper’s criterion of incomprehensibility and Rümke’s of recalcitrance to empathy (praecox-feeling) may best identify the prototypical instances of this strange Gestalt (Parnas, 2012). Both criteria seem largely intuitive, however, and neither offers an orienting theoretical account. The ipseity-disturbance hypothesis seeks an account flexible enough to encompass the diverse and varying symptoms yet specific enough to be clinically useful and relevant for research, neurocognitive and otherwise.
2. Self-Disorder Model: Current Status
2.1. Theory
According to the contemporary self-disorder model (Sass & Parnas, 2003), the essential disturbance of schizophrenia is grounded in a two-faceted disturbance of core or minimal self, also known as ipseity, that is normally implicit in each act of awareness. Ipseity derives from ipse , Latin for “self” or “itself”; it refers to the most basic sense of selfhood or self-presence: a crucial sense of self-sameness, a fundamental (thus nearly indescribable) sense of existing as a vital and self-identical subject of experience or agent of action (Ricoeur, 1992; Zahavi, 2005). This “central nucleus of the Self” (William James 1981), grounded in the lived body (Merleau-Ponty, 2012) and implicit temporality (Fuchs 2013), is experienced not as an entity in one’s field of awareness, but as the unseen point of origin for experience, thought, and action, as a medium of awareness, source of activity, or general directedness towards the world (Sass 1998). It grounds the first-person givenness or for-me-ness of subjective life.
This experience of one’s own presence as a conscious, embodied subject is so fundamental that any description risks sounding empty or tautological; yet its absence can be acutely felt, as illuminated by a schizophrenia patient overwhelmed by “total emptiness… as if I ceased to exist” (Parnas & al, 2005).
https://www.cairn.info/revue-recherches-en-psychanalyse-2013-2-page-119.htmUR#
I felt similar but dont view people as soulless bots, but as human beings. There are evil people out there of course. People that lack remorse and empathy. I’ve met these people at the mental hospital many times.
I dont think I’m that egocentric to think its all for me. But I think I’m in a simulation for various reasons like punishment or hell or to study me because I have memories, I’m in a loop, and i have had schizophrenia thousands or millions of times. My family died many times due to me thinking I was john titor and being targeted among other things in my past lives and i met the computer simulators asking for them to re build or keep the ancestor simulation around. I wish i could go back to my childhood. It was perfect.
It feels like a quantum monte carlo simulation that runs almost indefinitely. I’ve lived through nuclear war and the end or near end of the world hundreds or thousands of times.
It seems like hell.
I think I even helped run the simulation to help us. I put it on repeat so we could have peace.
I dont think free will exists because I turned it off but maybe someone put it back on.
I am one of the universes most miserable, suffering beings in it’s existence.
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I see. But do you have minimal self/
ipseity disturbance/self disorder/lack of ego boundaries?
Do you have responsibility for your actions?
Is it you that acts and lives?
I have a self and probably a disorder as how it relates to schizophrenia and autism.
Yes, I have responsibility for my actions. I’m not totally mad or insane. I have judgement and a conscience and I act with care. There are laws and such. Karma and fear is a ■■■■■. I try to act responsible, kind, good, and follow the laws, which I do. I would hate to go to prison for something stupid because I don’t think I’d make it or survive.
Is it possible to have multiple selves/consciousnesses? I tend to want to believe in compatiblism meaning we live in a deterministic world but are responsible for our actions regardless.
As I branch off into different lives or universes according to MWT, I see my behavior change. I always have schizophrenia, but my actions, thoughts, motives, etc. change. Is that the true essence of free will? In this timeline, you are like a robot that is under the illusion of free will. What sets us apart is chaos theory or complexity. Chaos theory is deterministic I think and thus we feel like we have free will but really don’t in the big picture or grand scheme of things.
Life is ugly in a sense and more complicated too. I’ve been feeling this way after I notice my ugly dreams I’ve been getting.
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Do you believe in destiny? I think I do. Things do change but I’m not sure why.
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Yes I believe it’s all determined, and designed and it’s destiny but in some minor cases, free will exists too. I agree with Schopenhauer
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