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The Earth is flat when personally significant experiences

with the sphericity of the Earth are absent.

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Claus-Christian Carbon, Cognition 2010

Abstract

Participants with personal and without personal experiences with the Earth as a sphere estimated large-scale distances between six cities located on different continents.

Cognitive distances were submitted to a specific multidimensional scaling algorithm in the 3D Euclidean space with the constraint that all cities had to lie on the same sphere. A simulation was run that calculated respective 3D configurations of the city positions for a wide range of radii of the proposed sphere.

People who had personally experienced the Earth as a sphere, at least once in their lifetime, showed a clear optimal solution of the multidimensional scaling (MDS) routine with a mean radius deviating only 8% from the actual radius of the Earth. In contrast, the calculated configurations for people without any personal experience with the Earth as a sphere were compatible with a cognitive concept of a flat Earth.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2010.03.009

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A good question. I don't think there are exact parallels but I agree with your suggestion that diagnostic validity of a number of psychiatric constructs might be one area. Another is biological psychiatry of a reductionist nature and indeed opposed ideas - e.g. psychoanalysis/spiritual theories of mental illness. Probably CBT worship would be another - the idea that people can be helped to think themselves out of mental illness (and indeed sometimes this can be helpful). However, the difference is there is a kernel of truth behind most of these misguided ideas, the issue is one of extreme over-emphasis rather than total irrelevance.

Of course anyone who has been on an ocean going ship or plane has seen that the world is round.

Andrew William McCulloch

What remains if every method is faulted? Are you telling us that all what is done for mental health problems is a total fiasco? Do you think that the world is FLAT?

Plenty of treatments work at least to a limited extent. I am referring to uni-dimensional or naive models of mental illness. The clue is in the name mental illness perhaps which of course has to be a metaphor in itself. Not to say people's distress or their brain changes are not real. But what is needed is an integrative approach to understanding the phenomenon. So the earth is not flat it is round. However, it is worth bearing in mind evidence that shows in some cases outcomes for mental illness are better untreated in some developing countries than they are treated in the West. This is probably not because the treatments are not to some extent effective but is due to the social determinants of "mental illness". To put it another way, treatments for mental illness are rarely solutions to the underlying problem although they can make life better for individuals. It is also interesting that most services seem to reject patients they think they can't treat or are not easy to work with. This is also a clue to the deep and complex problem we have here.

Absent any reliable biomarkers of SPMI, the diagnosis will remain a behavioral/historical/testing matter. All of which are indirect and subject to challenge by the uninformed (aka like most flat earthers).

Dear Tarun

Zombie thread revival in case still useful. Then again I never did understand the point of expecting the finite. Forum posts exist on commercial bandwidth, sometimes conditioned learned moderators object. = site owners care = server space. And if so meaningless in a scientific context = Resurrection.

Flat earthers seem to have sub-sub-sub cultured themselves by having a flat planet tenet. Their position seems not protected in todays consideration cultures. Their position is the archetypal turkey shoot with its sphere incredulity contradictione sequitur quodlibet.

In some ways it is possible that flat earth's are simply existing in the same societal overlay which helps manifest what are perhaps paraconsistent attitudes. In that respect in an encroaching trans humanist society is doing much the same with first degree entailment as it does around everyone. FE exponents are often creationists, giving their view discuss how a god and his son designed the firmament. There has been a flat earth society for many decades, & resurgence appears to be facilitated by the WWW. The core idea has pre space exploration roots, so made ok sense once. We all have the same tools with which to play with logic if we wish, and there seems to be much encouragement to do so. Below a useful link :

http://melvinfitting.org/forclasses/phil76500spring2018/LectureNotes/FDE/FDEA.pdf

And that jusy ilustrates what steps can be taken if it is deemed useful to have people operate with logic that is not false as such so long as a counter intuitive outlook is adopted concerning the reliability of logic. Movements large or small are bubbles on consensus that can encourage anything to become accepted should they have the power. Melvin Fittings notes are a good reminder about how a topology of being reliable or manipulative looks. In a shared consciousness context, it isn't absurd to ask if a low impact group (FE) have a dilemma with a perception linked to what they feel disrupts accepted paradigms, similar to those building perpetual motion or time machines in the shed. The disgraced former CEO of the failed Theranos is widely considered a sociopath for instance - but apparently it started with a time machine sketch.

https://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-founder-ceo-elizabeth-holmes-life-story-bio-2018-4?r=US&IR=T

No opinion - it just seems that at very least societal norms that were experienced in this persons life had great affect,

If your inquiry was curious concerning a potential sociological link in dilemmas in you infer it seems plausible. There is a sense of error proneness at a pace in the parlance you mention. 'Trans humanism' may seem an odd suggestion. The steps do not need to involve implants or bionics - it can be a societal attitude. I.E an ingress of instruction in social engineering which could have altered the way we now evaluate some quite ordinary taken for granted matters. In this sense the wheels of first degree entailment seem never to have been so well oiled. Therefore should we take the analogous FE, there was a time when the wonderment was reasonable. Today it isn't, but the reasons FE is adept at the use of paraconsistent ways of thinking could result from sociological self similarity due to a constant sociological epidemic. Therefore - although your ingress was merely of analogous intent, nevertheless it is not too far fetched that the same kind of societal force resultant in what seem incongruent predicaments regarding FE & mental health share similar phenomenology on the human level due to ways 'logic' can be manipulated by manipulation of first degree entailment. Science is about not doing that - I'm not sure thats the case with Higgs Boson ) many are not ) However if feasible so far this certainly would not be the kind of opinion the typical flat earther could stand as it renders their protest a capitulation by design. Many state trained mental health clinician would like to hear it I'd feel as they've been manipulated to wish to be manipulated. The suggestion is that there could be a trans human template being placed globally across societies using a means to cause the use of conforms them. Definition of trans human in this case a societal attitude friendly to computers taking over jobs once done by humans & happy with the social engineering facilitating it.

If such societal boundary conditions exist, then we might ask what could define a vulnerability to it. No wish to offend FE, but if others accept they are dysfunctional, then what form of dysfunction manifest really ? The point here is that flat earth's already fulfil traits of the sociological devolution required to tolerate Ai Justice. Their idea is trans human in the sense it decouples logic from the responsibility of proof. Ai that runs law and classrooms can only make sense if its never wrong. The only way that can happen in law enforcement is if the decisions are pre ordained. Clearly the people need to be conditioned to feel comfortable with something that intends to convict 100% of motorists for instance other than some token let offs allowed by human intervention. Whatever way we look at Ai justice the consciousness technology required for a computer to make detailed assessments concerning unique incidents doesn't exist yet they cctv for this is being erected everywhere.

Disappointment and disillusionment with life exists among many. When this is so its cognitive reality tends to be impossible to crush by few public sector provided empowerment courses. The care and mental health industry seems to be flooded with operatives who are profoundly disappointed with what they learned via the public sector. Unsure concerning how they were purposed, the wages, and stressed increasingly by the way a pen pushing and box ticking learning makes then incompatible with a better job. They find out that such employers know they'll be wishing to avoid fast trackers that were not shown any challenging concepts. Its not easy to bring up, but its a fact that local authorities have countless psychologists who were custom built to fill in forms. Can drive a Mini - can't drive anything else.

In a way the flat earth society might only on a more disordered spectrum of sociological disillusionment than any less exotic believers. FE yells about the firmament of the earth, and perhaps less capable public sector officials feel the way to handle being disillusioned is by ranting about politics and not caring about effectiveness. One seems to have ideas that are greatly acknowledge la la,, the other does not seem to be a protected rhetorical denialist La la. Hence flat earth not so certainly phenomenologically and sociologically less stable that elsewhere in real terms.

Pathos as a state many do everything the can to avoid illustrating. A few cannot help having outbursts should they have much emotional damage. But the point is that todays sociological complexities feature a massive cocktail of controlled fear, socially engineered decoupling of logic, and an impending Ai regime that has for some time now set the social tones ahead of law run by cynical databases.

There are many transitional psychological forms of tribal dynamic resulting in counter intuitive behaviours among the masses. A good advance of general metacognition concerning how we might try to understand what drives preconscious processes today would take it all forward better.

It seems your good self does strive for this.

Kind regards to you Tarun