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If schizos see everything as being connected, then call me schizo lol.

At this point, I think there may be a lot of false schizo diagnoses (in the serious medical sense of the term).

Years and years ago I heard that mathematicians were more likely than the general population to go schizo.

I'm starting to understand why. The honesty requirement of the wisdom chakra is fulfilled by the mathematician's mindset formed by proofs. Likewise, the same thing happens to scientists whose mindsets are formed by the scientific method.

Not all mathematicians and scientists go this path but it would make sense that a disproportionately large quantity of mathematicians and scientists would "go schizo" in the "everything is connected" sense of the term.
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ArkonaFan 8mo ago

Thing about everything being connected is “to what degree?” We are all related and us both being white you may conclude we are 4th or 5th cousins but actually we’re only 10th cousins at the closest point. However we’re also 12th cousins on 3 other points so we’re more similar than just 10th cousins. I think you have a problem with seeing more substantial or greater degree connections than are there. Sometimes that still works and sometimes it’s better to not let those vague connections alter the equation by overstating their importance. Balance is very important.

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twofish 8mo ago

To minimize the error is all we can do with the data we have. The PCA algorithm is an example of this, and ironically mentions Hooke's Law.

https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/2691/making-sense-of-principal-component-analysis-eigenvectors-eigenvalues#140579