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Originally Posted by blackwhitered
I heard on a podcast something about increased intelligence and patternality that I can really relate to. The idea is that increased intelligence usually implies better pattern recognition, but that sometimes your pattern recognition can go into overdrive and you see patterns in random sets of information, resulting in strange beliefs and even delusions. I can definitely relate to this because I get delusions of reference about movies and songs having messages in them... or I see patterns in my hallucinations and the real world that make me get strange thoughts... yet at the same time I have a high IQ and I'm expected to be more "rational"... It was really interesting.
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Cool do you know what podcast it was....this is definitely something I experienced but in my case it actually helped me in my job...science in the big picture sense is about making weird connections no one else sees but then you have to test them which it doesn't help with as much if they have become more delusional it's hard to get rid of them even if not true....