Yes, psychosis is a useful explanation for miracles only for people whose beliefs won’t explain the whole category away. I doubt the op has such beliefs.
No, I don’t have any beliefs that would claim that psychosis doesn’t exist, don’t worry. I can’t think of any hypothesis that would claim this without being far more complicated than the conventional “mental illness is a thing” view, and thus being eliminated by Occam’s Razor.
So would you agree that a significant number of the accounts of miracles, not all, happen because of psychosis? Of course, hallucinations could be one the ways that a god communicates. What do you think about that? :)
For some reason mental illness appears to be especially poorly understood among the general populace compared to other common medical conditions. I’m not sure if this is because the field of psychiatry in it’s current form is relatively young, or because it’s being popularized unfairly.
People you’d call crazy quite often aren’t in fact medically insane.
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
Yes, psychosis is a useful explanation for miracles only for people whose beliefs won’t explain the whole category away. I doubt the op has such beliefs.
No, I don’t have any beliefs that would claim that psychosis doesn’t exist, don’t worry. I can’t think of any hypothesis that would claim this without being far more complicated than the conventional “mental illness is a thing” view, and thus being eliminated by Occam’s Razor.
So would you agree that a significant number of the accounts of miracles, not all, happen because of psychosis? Of course, hallucinations could be one the ways that a god communicates. What do you think about that? :)
For some reason mental illness appears to be especially poorly understood among the general populace compared to other common medical conditions. I’m not sure if this is because the field of psychiatry in it’s current form is relatively young, or because it’s being popularized unfairly.
People you’d call crazy quite often aren’t in fact medically insane.