I think a better test would be to teach people prone to developing schizophrenia and then see if it help with those that did develop schizophrenia. It would be much easier to teach rationality before the onset of schizophrenia to boot.
Absolutely we should run that test, and I suspect it would help. The experiment I proposed, however, was more designed out of the question, “would it be possible to teach rationality to someone who cannot trust their own perceptions, and in fact may not realize yet that their perceptions are untrustworthy?” Is rationality genuinely not possible in that case? Or is it possible to give them enough rational skills to recover from the deepest set delusions humans can have?
I think a better test would be to teach people prone to developing schizophrenia and then see if it help with those that did develop schizophrenia. It would be much easier to teach rationality before the onset of schizophrenia to boot.
Absolutely we should run that test, and I suspect it would help. The experiment I proposed, however, was more designed out of the question, “would it be possible to teach rationality to someone who cannot trust their own perceptions, and in fact may not realize yet that their perceptions are untrustworthy?” Is rationality genuinely not possible in that case? Or is it possible to give them enough rational skills to recover from the deepest set delusions humans can have?