Note that the reference is specifically in regards to older patients and for diagnosing a specific form of “crazy”. Does it generalize to all forms of “crazy”? I don’t know, I haven’t looked into it at all. I just was curious and wanted to read the citation, and thought it was worth noting.
From the conclusion: “Disorientation to time is a useful guide to the presence and severity of dementia or delirium in older hospital patients.”
Part of why I adopted the practice is that (1) maybe robots won’t kill us all before we become elderly, and (2) maybe a good Singularity won’t happen and cure all those diseases and so (3) in the middle path there is probably some value, as a hedge, to practice “habits that will make being alive and yet demented decades in the future much much less bad”...
Plausibly: as the more recent year’s memories and skills are ablated from the brain’s contents via degeneration, material from previous decades (that is “what will likely last longer”) can resurface to guide behavior… and so that material can be shaped in advance to be helpful.
It is a little bit weird (but not super weird) that there are many ways of being crazy, and many indicators to monitor and/or maintain to help keep an even keel.
Note that the reference is specifically in regards to older patients and for diagnosing a specific form of “crazy”. Does it generalize to all forms of “crazy”? I don’t know, I haven’t looked into it at all. I just was curious and wanted to read the citation, and thought it was worth noting.
From the conclusion: “Disorientation to time is a useful guide to the presence and severity of dementia or delirium in older hospital patients.”
A valid footnote! Yes!
Part of why I adopted the practice is that (1) maybe robots won’t kill us all before we become elderly, and (2) maybe a good Singularity won’t happen and cure all those diseases and so (3) in the middle path there is probably some value, as a hedge, to practice “habits that will make being alive and yet demented decades in the future much much less bad”...
Plausibly: as the more recent year’s memories and skills are ablated from the brain’s contents via degeneration, material from previous decades (that is “what will likely last longer”) can resurface to guide behavior… and so that material can be shaped in advance to be helpful.
It is a little bit weird (but not super weird) that there are many ways of being crazy, and many indicators to monitor and/or maintain to help keep an even keel.