My working model of psychosis is “lack of a stable/intact ego”, where my working model of an “ego” is “the thing you can use to predict your own actions so as to make successful multi-step plans, such as ‘I will buy pasta, so that I can make it on Thursday for our guests.’
from Adele Lopez’s Shortform. I probably haven’t experienced psychosis, but the description of self-prediction determining behavior/planning, and this self-prediction being faulty or unstable was eerie; this dominates my experience. I’m unsure about their definition of ego, I understood it to mean “sense of self”, but by that definition I still have a faint ego, and these things, for me, seem strongly related.
I didn’t think these traits were common among people who frequent physical and virtual rationalist spaces, from my impressions of them. I have the impression that a rationalist has a strong sense of self, which is strongly tied to their interests/passions/goals. The impressions I’m getting from some more familiar, in particular with irl rationalist networks/communities, is that, though the latter’s true, not so the former.
from Adele Lopez’s Shortform. I probably haven’t experienced psychosis, but the description of self-prediction determining behavior/planning, and this self-prediction being faulty or unstable was eerie; this dominates my experience. I’m unsure about their definition of ego, I understood it to mean “sense of self”, but by that definition I still have a faint ego, and these things, for me, seem strongly related.
I didn’t think these traits were common among people who frequent physical and virtual rationalist spaces, from my impressions of them. I have the impression that a rationalist has a strong sense of self, which is strongly tied to their interests/passions/goals. The impressions I’m getting from some more familiar, in particular with irl rationalist networks/communities, is that, though the latter’s true, not so the former.
Is this common to others’ experience?