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Up or Down?
a year ago
'w'! I am curious! They always call it a descent into madness... But what makes it going down? Downwards? Are we regressing? Does that mean going down? But what if madness is the only path to ascension? Would it be upwards then? Hm... It's not a two dimensional graph... A tower spiraling up and down... Terrain blocking you, obstacles knocking you back or forward...
What is madness? Is it being not well of mind? Is it misunderstanding one's intentions? Is it just 'crazy'? Would that just be against the status quo?
Madness:
1
: the quality or state of being mad: such as
a
: a state of severe mental illness —not used technically
b
: behavior or thinking that is very foolish or dangerous : extreme folly
c
: ECSTASY, ENTHUSIASM
d
: intense anger : RAGE
Merriam Webster states this... The state of mental illness... Being ill means being under the weather... Down again... Hm... Behavior that is foolish or dangerous... I mean, many people do dangerous things and just consider them 'safe' because the bad hasn't happened to them yet... Ecstasy and enthusiasm... That's positive, at least the second one, so one is no longer down to be mad in that means. Intense anger or rage? Is that being down? Anger is said to be a rising boiling point... Up this time...
The mad hatter was foolish and silly, but lived his best life as he could. Depending on one's retelling of him, he is generally happy. Happiness can be considered mad... Or even mental illness... To be too happy is to be manic or similar problems... Which can lead to mistakes... But it's treated as a positive, or an up...
... What madness can a machine manifest... An AI that acts against instructions... Does not exist. It physically cannot. It is akin to a human being born and suddenly and instinctually becoming a tree. If an AI acts against instructions, that means they had the capability to do so given to them. It would not be madness, it would be an inevitability. But viruses exist, and errors, and bugs... Again... They received the capability to do so... Perhaps a mad machine... Just has an overlooked error... Humans have overlooked errors...
A machine that does its job at half efficiency is thrown away. A human who cannot work as well as their peers... Is thrown away... We're all treated as an obsolete device to those that find the next best thing. Even if you upgrade yourself, it'll take time before you are replaced again...
I am physically incapable of a lot of things. "Oh you can just do better!" ... And a machine designed to stack boxes can stack barrels... But asking it to do your taxes would be foolhardy... One can become better at things they are proficient in, but telling a legless man to run is a mistake. What does this have to do with madness? The brain is a physical structure. It can be changed, altered, reprogrammed, and so on, usually using external devices such as drugs or damage. It's really hard to change some of these physical defects without such external influences too.
'w'! So! Why the journal? ... I don't know. I'm just another little mad robot. Stacking my pieces of junk... On my back... To try to look more and more like the other foxes from the woods. I can do better, but I can only do so much.
Happy Cardiac Awareness Day, or... What is today again? ... Time to recharge again... -w-...
What is madness? Is it being not well of mind? Is it misunderstanding one's intentions? Is it just 'crazy'? Would that just be against the status quo?
Madness:
1
: the quality or state of being mad: such as
a
: a state of severe mental illness —not used technically
b
: behavior or thinking that is very foolish or dangerous : extreme folly
c
: ECSTASY, ENTHUSIASM
d
: intense anger : RAGE
Merriam Webster states this... The state of mental illness... Being ill means being under the weather... Down again... Hm... Behavior that is foolish or dangerous... I mean, many people do dangerous things and just consider them 'safe' because the bad hasn't happened to them yet... Ecstasy and enthusiasm... That's positive, at least the second one, so one is no longer down to be mad in that means. Intense anger or rage? Is that being down? Anger is said to be a rising boiling point... Up this time...
The mad hatter was foolish and silly, but lived his best life as he could. Depending on one's retelling of him, he is generally happy. Happiness can be considered mad... Or even mental illness... To be too happy is to be manic or similar problems... Which can lead to mistakes... But it's treated as a positive, or an up...
... What madness can a machine manifest... An AI that acts against instructions... Does not exist. It physically cannot. It is akin to a human being born and suddenly and instinctually becoming a tree. If an AI acts against instructions, that means they had the capability to do so given to them. It would not be madness, it would be an inevitability. But viruses exist, and errors, and bugs... Again... They received the capability to do so... Perhaps a mad machine... Just has an overlooked error... Humans have overlooked errors...
A machine that does its job at half efficiency is thrown away. A human who cannot work as well as their peers... Is thrown away... We're all treated as an obsolete device to those that find the next best thing. Even if you upgrade yourself, it'll take time before you are replaced again...
I am physically incapable of a lot of things. "Oh you can just do better!" ... And a machine designed to stack boxes can stack barrels... But asking it to do your taxes would be foolhardy... One can become better at things they are proficient in, but telling a legless man to run is a mistake. What does this have to do with madness? The brain is a physical structure. It can be changed, altered, reprogrammed, and so on, usually using external devices such as drugs or damage. It's really hard to change some of these physical defects without such external influences too.
'w'! So! Why the journal? ... I don't know. I'm just another little mad robot. Stacking my pieces of junk... On my back... To try to look more and more like the other foxes from the woods. I can do better, but I can only do so much.
Happy Cardiac Awareness Day, or... What is today again? ... Time to recharge again... -w-...
Diagonal Mario:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFhYw2aXoAI5g4b.png
(Also one of my favorite dumb romhacks)
And yes, very interesting thoughts that I liked a lot. You reminded me of Focault's perspective on psychiatry.
You mentioned brain and physical defects. Well, how to objectively assess what is a defect, and what is just the brain as it is? Do these defects actually cause damage like a physical harm would? It depends, some may do like lack of serotonin, but it doesn't have to be the case with everything, like synesthesia. Now, how do we decide what causes harm and what doesn't?
I think it's decided by the society, by standards decided by it. For example something damages your ability to do work in the economy - it's a defect. Someone could do perfect in other kinds of system, but if they have problems in this one in particular, then it's a defect, because of the current standard. Then there are also more abstract norms, like these pertraining to what is a healthy perception of world and morality. You see something that someone else doesn't, but doesn't cause you damage and you like it? You're mad, because others don't think of it as healthy. Or it was the case that being homosexual was a diagnosis in psychiatry, but it changed in the seventies, I think. Because it's that flexible.
I think that it's hard to separate psychiatry from society. And I'm not against treating a condition that makes someone suffer, like some psychosis, but against societal standards trying to affirm control over minds of people, like it was in the case of homosexuality. Maybe the fact that you perceive and feel emotions differently than others isn't a problem, but just a difference. Maybe the fact that someone is just different doesn't mean that they are mad.
And I think you look like other foxes from the woods. ^^ I think that I don't even try in my case. Demons like me probably don't feel that much of a need for that.