<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">Interestingly, part of the definition of a delusion in psychiatry (e.g. in the DSM) is that the belief is not held by people from the same culture. If this criterion were not included then religious beliefs and other beliefs held in the absence of evidence would be classed as delusional.</div></div></div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#888888">--<span> </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_8508460717812361523gmail_signature">Stathis Papaioannou</div></font></span><b>Which just goes to show you that you should not let psychiatrists be in charge of anything important (especially things like involuntary incarceration). Do you know how things get into and out of (like homosexuality) the DSM? Voted on at conventions - by some who are lit up like a supernova. Realize that the DSM is a political and cultural thing, not a scientific categorization. For the worst case of this, look at Russia and China and see who they regard as abnormal.</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><b><br></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><b>Spike, I think if you would look at the evidence, you would find that your opinion that IQ and religious beliefs are orthogonal - that is, not correlated - may be incorrect.</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><b><br></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><b>We do have many discussions on this site that would be illuminated by surveys of the literature - meta-analyses (which are often surveys of surveys and involve hundreds of studies, and I am going to find out how to access them so we can start from data and not opinion - will let you know - will visit a reference librarian, as I am somewhat out of touch)</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><b><br></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><b>bill w</b></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 11:38 AM, Stathis Papaioannou <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stathisp@gmail.com" target="_blank">stathisp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 5 Aug 2018 at 1:30 am, <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_8508460717812361523m_222147016077672617WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.<wbr>extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, August 4, 2018 8:07 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.<wbr>org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Prisoner of bad philosophy: Carl Sagan couldn’t allow himself to hope<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white"> For some atheists it is upsetting that so many base their lives around religious belief given this, and they feel obliged to tell them why they are wrong at every opportunity; stathis</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">And the other way around: Yet another reason for atheists to be militant: being lectured to, patronized by people they consider intellectual inferiors. It doesn't have to be that way. I've been 'corrected' by students in my 101 classes and I found it funny (though I tried to hide it).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">bill w</span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Occasionally in our lives we meet someone who is so clearly our intellectual superior it is startling. In the controls biz, we sometimes had a very gifted young person who just seem to have that rare talent, an ability to see everything, to use the complicated systems of differential equations like Tarzan swinging from vines in the jungle, as effortlessly as flying.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">We had a guy come thru like that, exactly one, a PhD candidate when he was still in his early 20s. We have never had one like him before or since. He was only there about a year before our customer discovered him and somehow coaxed him away. He was religious to the core, and I do mean fundamentalist, tortoises all the way down hardcore fundy.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I don’t know how it works or why it works, but somehow religious belief is orthogonal to intelligence.</p></div></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div></span><div dir="auto">People can be frankly delusional, symptomatic of a psychotic illness, and still be intelligent. The more intelligent they are, the more elaborate their defence of their delusion. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Interestingly, part of the definition of a delusion in psychiatry (e.g. in the DSM) is that the belief is not held by people from the same culture. If this criterion were not included then religious beliefs and other beliefs held in the absence of evidence would be classed as delusional.</div></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="m_8508460717812361523gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Stathis Papaioannou</div>
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