tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post3795441673666023924..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: What is reality? Philip K. DickSteve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-9669413414750206102011-03-22T18:36:02.422-04:002011-03-22T18:36:02.422-04:00IN DADoES I still chuckle over this scene:
"Y...IN DADoES I still chuckle over this scene:<br />"You're not Polokov, you're Kadalyi," Rick said.<br />"Don't you mean that the other way around? You're a bit confused."LondonYoungnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-23901129419961303902011-03-22T03:50:28.889-04:002011-03-22T03:50:28.889-04:00Dick later recalled, he was diagnosed as suffering...<i>Dick later recalled, he was diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia - a label that terrified him. Other psychotherapists and psychiatrists in later years would offer other diagnoses, including the one that Dick was quite sane.</i><br /><br />Supposing schizophrenia is a thing rather than just a word, that psychiatrists disagreed means Dick didn't "have" that thing. I remember Taufaahau_Tupou_IVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-32289503082881509632011-03-21T19:51:54.629-04:002011-03-21T19:51:54.629-04:00I just read the summary at Wiki and it sounds inte...I just read the summary at Wiki and it sounds interesting. Amazing how much Dick stuff I've never heard of.<br /><br />I highly recommend TMITHC. Somewhere on my blog I link to The Sound of His Horn, which influenced TMITHC, and which I also recommend.steve hsuhttp://duende.uoregon.edu/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-71489309933763665822011-03-21T19:49:11.482-04:002011-03-21T19:49:11.482-04:00I agree about Dick's appeal to physicists. The...I agree about Dick's appeal to physicists. The recurring question "what is real?" resonates with us :-)steve hsuhttp://duende.uoregon.edu/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-37239866936303574632011-03-21T14:53:04.477-04:002011-03-21T14:53:04.477-04:00He did have some nutty hangups about his dead sist...He did have some nutty hangups about his dead sisterFrednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-27718607500242327522011-03-21T14:27:27.905-04:002011-03-21T14:27:27.905-04:00When I see schizo, I think "schizoid personal...When I see schizo, I think "schizoid personality", not schizophrenia - two different things (and I would guess that the first one would be more likely).Jirkanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-2647724254129546442011-03-21T13:24:27.492-04:002011-03-21T13:24:27.492-04:00There are more. LY is less than 5'8" and ...There are more. LY is less than 5'8" and his maternal grandmother was Mayan.Taufaahau_Tupou_IVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-19698103636950333272011-03-21T12:25:50.810-04:002011-03-21T12:25:50.810-04:00It's always interesting to me that PKD appeals...It's always interesting to me that PKD appeals to so many scientists, and especially theoretical physicists. I mean he wrote things like this when describing the "I Ching": "several physicists use it to plot the behavior of subatomic particles - thus getting around Heisenberg's unfortunate principle." But I suppose this is because what PKD excelled at was building dabaconhttp://twitter.com/dabaconnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-83315319352568570442011-03-21T12:24:44.086-04:002011-03-21T12:24:44.086-04:00That was a subtle, unexpected bit of trivia about ...That was a subtle, unexpected bit of trivia about you LY.Davidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-53187549585039141142011-03-21T09:17:57.582-04:002011-03-21T09:17:57.582-04:00You're too predictable Steve. Even though your...You're too predictable Steve. Even though your science is theoretical physics you should be much more cynical regarding psychiatry than you are. In this case and in the case of Asperger's and g you've assumed that because there is a word there is a thing. You haven't considered that the coiners of these words have motivations other than a description of phenomena and that the Taufaahau_Tupou_IVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-50190957356572593162011-03-21T02:47:10.357-04:002011-03-21T02:47:10.357-04:00I'm not the only one... Try this query: "...I'm not the only one... Try this query: "schizophrenia philip dick"steve hsuhttp://duende.uoregon.edu/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-637761662876088462011-03-21T01:49:13.146-04:002011-03-21T01:49:13.146-04:00Was Dick schizo?
No. Why would you ask that quest...<i>Was Dick schizo?</i><br /><br />No. Why would you ask that question?Taufaahau_Tupou_IVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-71768034256927269202011-03-20T17:53:53.865-04:002011-03-20T17:53:53.865-04:00thanx for posting thisthanx for posting thistuffy777http://twitter.com/tuffy777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-23486005866171319312011-03-20T17:10:16.834-04:002011-03-20T17:10:16.834-04:00***In fact, Blade Runner was a commercial disappoi...***In fact, Blade Runner was a commercial disappointment in its initial release. ***<br /><br />I saw this for the first time a couple of years ago on a flight from the UK to NZ. I thought it was superb, I'm surprised that it averages 3 stars on amazon (although now looking it seems a lot of the griping is about the directors cut version & lack of dvd extras).bottinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-24732802494632567572011-03-20T13:27:30.310-04:002011-03-20T13:27:30.310-04:00s/Kind/Kings/Kind/KingLondonYoungnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-82444322489303487032011-03-20T13:27:07.793-04:002011-03-20T13:27:07.793-04:00Funny, I just read "The Kind of the Elves&quo...Funny, I just read "The Kind of the Elves" last week, and am still under its spell of depression.LondonYoungnoreply@blogger.com