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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> spike@rainier66.com <spike@rainier66.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, May 26, 2019 2:23 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'ExI chat list' <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Cc:</b> spike@rainier66.com<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [ExI] control - a few thoughts<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] control - a few thoughts<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…<span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'> This is exactly the kind of book I want recommended to me: lots of science at the layman's level with some implications for everyday living. bill w<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Guys lets all pitch in and do it. Otherwise he will go off and read books about… cod.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A mind is a terrible thing to waste Bill.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>>…<span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>One of the most tragic and frightening things about schizophrenia is the loss of control. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>…<span style='color:black'>bill w</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…I still have (distant) family in the Bluefield WV area. We have identified where Nash’s house was. I hope to go there and fall prostrate before that house which is still there…. Spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>BillW, what I hope to learn from your commentary on Beautiful Mind is related to psychology, which (as I understand it) is based on the notion that a suffering mind can learn what is causing itself to suffer and heal itself from within. This interests me, for I have a friend who suffers terribly from regular bouts with depression. He is a really smart guy however (PhD from Stanford in physics) and eventually worked out how to deal with it. That is an example of a mind healing itself (or at least treating itself) from within.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In the movie version of Beautiful Mind, Nash figured out his hallucinations were not real because they did not age. The book was a (mercifully) fictionalized version of his life, so I do not know if the real JF Nash really overcame schizophrenia by realizing they weren’t aging along with everyone else.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>