I want to believe
>>25176841I don't, this book is pseud slop
His claims are akin to saying because facial descriptions are absent from the Bible, prosopagnosia was the norm. Or that art with no dimension or scale means depth-perception was absent.Schizophrenia is almost surely caused by malfunctioning dopamine, too much of it for too long. The evidence is that most efficacious antipsychotics are those that inhibit dopamine surges, and that drugs like meth which flood the brain with a shitton of dopamine, induce psychosis if abused for a prolonged periodI firmly believe that being "woman-brained" has to do with sex differences in dopamine receptors.
>>25176841Why do you want to believe? To live in the author's illusion or to escape the disillusion of your present condition. If you watched your life and its associated memories on a movie reel (keep the grain in the picture) how many stars would you give it? And then you come back and make the same mistakes all over again because once the glitter of survival is gone your fall back into even worse habits because there is literally nothing to do here. Nothing. It's a lobby of an abandoned hotel but you can see how grand it used to look. Could. But now you know it's abandoned. You probably should have just died.
>>25176968Everyone's complete life would be tedious on a movie reel
Animist tribes still alive today prove humans used to be schizophrenic.
>>25176841McGilchrist is better
>>25176841Very fun read, who knows if it's true though. Wish more wildly original but plausible stuff like this would come out.
>>25176947well, there is more evidence in the book than just thatI wonder how far it could be taken when other civilisations are analysed
>>25177227Yes goyim, man closest to his natural state are actually the schizos and us """rational""" humans who pollute the soil and oceans with endless waste are the sane ones.
