Charles Dickens
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Exploration of ‘hallucinations’.
apperception, autism, cancellation signals, Charles Dickens, corollary discharge, first-person singular pronouns, From sensation to cognition, hallucinations, illusion, magic, mind’s ear, mind’s eye, occult, perception, Psychology of Music C E Seashore 1938, psychosis, schizophrenia, supernatural, talismanic, The Pickwick Papers, The Stroller’s Tale, thought broadcasting, thought echo, thought insertionVisual hallucinations are due to activation of visual memory circuits by diffuse toxicity, as described in The Stroller’s Tale, from The Pickwick Papers. The auditory hallucinations of schizophrenia are not perceptions without stimuli, they are apperceptions without responses, specifically the corollary discharges of arousal that normally indicate apperceptive ownership of one’s responses to perception:…
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Inclusive fitness is difficult to reconcile with historical, Dickensian, and Shakespearean representations of family life.Inclusive fitness is difficult to reconcile with family life as observed in the psychiatric consulting room. Termination of pregnancy brings focus.
To be or not to be. 