X-Message-Number: 17561 From: Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 10:14:38 EDT Subject: Who's crazy exactly --part1_14f.103edc4.28d4bc4e_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/15/01 4:01:22 AM Central Daylight Time, writes: > A possibly relevant study was done on creativity and psychopathology in > 291 world-famous men (British Jouyrnal of Psychiatry 165: 22-34 > 1994). Guess which profession was associated with the highest incidence of > psychopathology? Well, my first guess would have been religious leaders, followed by psychologists... how did the study decide who was nuts? Obviously they aren't using 'objective criteria' like blood chemistry on the long dead. My guess is that lots of people with non-optimal brain chemistry get by on good "software", while many people with perfectly good brains are running crazy memes on them. --part1_14f.103edc4.28d4bc4e_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17561