Understanding Thought

[AndyC]

https://www.ted.com/talks/mariano_sigman_your_words_may_predict_your_future_mental_health?language=en

What do you think of this? Considering we can produce a mathematical translation of thought and therefore language, I think the applications go far beyond the detection of "Semantic Coherence" and mental disorders such as Psychosis. It is interesting.

 

[onesteptwostep]

Well this is interesting. I could Ne crazy with this, but on a personal note, I did ramble and post a lot of weird things on facebook before the onset of my own psychosis. It makes you wonder though, wouldn't monitoring speech like this somewhat be a violation of civil liberty? It's sort of like banning free speech. You don't necessarily have to be a neruoscientist or a linguistic to see whether or not someone's been taking a hit from the bong. One of my mentors like pastors knew right away that something was wrong and contacted me.

Personally, while I do think it could help prevent psychosis, rambling is usually indicative of a earlier stage of psychosis like hypomania, insomnia, and high stress and so on. It would take some lightening fast professional diagnosis to prevent it, which sadly, is highly unlikely, if the patient is already in a stressful situation to start with.

Overall this is interesting, but I don't see much use in the idea he showcases in the end. Very interesting introspection asymptote though. I wonder if there's a word that's more nebulous than consciousness/introspection to show how much more meta we've become?

 

[Ruby]

This was very interesting. Thanks for sharing it. The bit that interested me the most was when he talked about the development of introspection in our ancestors.

Unlike onesteptwostep I never had a full blown psychosis, but I did pass trough a very stressful time. I had hallucinations and had to fight intrusive, paranoid thoughts.
In the journals I wrote from this period and still have today, I jumped from one thing to another rather fast and with no apparent link in between. There are also pages where I only wrote one word again and again and again, taking all the space and writing over my previous writing.

I don't have much else to add, sadly.

 

[AndyC]

I too, am going through a stage of 'rambling'. I suffer from racing thoughts, and express eccentricity in every way I can. People often feel a bit scared of me because I think and move in an unpredictable pattern in such a way it makes me look 'manic'.
I also have books where I have written the same word over and over again, I'm not sure if there is a correlation with say 'intelligence' and this possibly pseudo-psychosis.
I'm still thinking about it but am worried because I could be on the brink of psychosis, and have been experiencing strong levels of paranoia.

I have trouble attaching myself to things and often do things spontaneously for no reason, and I treat everything as if it were some sort of game which makes me obscure but seemingly methodical in all I do. Like I said, I'm still thinking about this so my analysis may change dramatically, but if you think there may be something wrong please let me know. I don't know much about psychosis, but when I get the chance to do some research on it, I will be sure to do so.

 

[AndyC]

Sorry, I need to stay on topic for this thread, ill create a new thread for the psychosis diagnosis problem.

 

[Aerl]

Firstly, thank you for sharing. I am quite interested in the workings of the mind. Personally I've been thinking in recent months about similar ideas and I would like to add that the vocabulary we use in construction of our spoken language highly influences our own perception of the world surrounding us, our thought process, structure and correlation of information residing within, but that is only my own opinion.