I don’t know, “evidence that supports an unlikely general hypothesis” is an awfully large set of potential qualia / symptoms.
In centuries past (and not so past), religious people have gone through highly detailed and ‘realistic’ experiences that fit nicely into mainstream theology and were taken pretty much at face value (see e.g. St. Marguerite Alacocque who, inbetween masochistic frenzies of licking bodily fluids at Jesus’ command, also had more marketable visions which were accepted as a a major element of modern worship).
Give the same brain malfunction to a SIAI member and I wouldn’t be surprised if they woke up to have a very realistic and believable meeting with Omega; and I for one would be a few orders of magnitude more likely to believe in a Omega hypothesis than in the JHWH hypothesis.
I agree that thinking you’ve met Omega would be a symptom of insanity (or possibly extreme gullibility and having run into a practical joker). Thinking that you’ve seen strong experimental evidence for psi doesn’t seem like a normal hallucination, though it might be what Korzybski called unsanity—the usual sort of jumping to conclusions.
So far as I know, seeing evidence that supports an unlikely general hypothesis doesn’t match any standard sort of insanity.
I don’t know, “evidence that supports an unlikely general hypothesis” is an awfully large set of potential qualia / symptoms.
In centuries past (and not so past), religious people have gone through highly detailed and ‘realistic’ experiences that fit nicely into mainstream theology and were taken pretty much at face value (see e.g. St. Marguerite Alacocque who, inbetween masochistic frenzies of licking bodily fluids at Jesus’ command, also had more marketable visions which were accepted as a a major element of modern worship).
Give the same brain malfunction to a SIAI member and I wouldn’t be surprised if they woke up to have a very realistic and believable meeting with Omega; and I for one would be a few orders of magnitude more likely to believe in a Omega hypothesis than in the JHWH hypothesis.
I agree that thinking you’ve met Omega would be a symptom of insanity (or possibly extreme gullibility and having run into a practical joker). Thinking that you’ve seen strong experimental evidence for psi doesn’t seem like a normal hallucination, though it might be what Korzybski called unsanity—the usual sort of jumping to conclusions.