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New study shows highly creative people’s brains work differently from others'

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Re: New study shows highly creative people’s brains work differently from others'

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To connect the unconnected, a feature also seen in which brain-disease, often associated with the erroneous associations (paranoia, over-association of noise as voices and faces). Show me your wunderkind and i show you the shizophrenia in the family.

I wonder if you could even retrain active run-away shizophrenic people to produce meaningfull creative outcomes. So lets go to the tenderloin and connect random physics and science wikipedia articles to a megaphone.

Schools out, but the learning is just getting started.

Re: New study shows highly creative people’s brains work differently from others'

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To connect the unconnected, a feature also seen in which brain-disease, often associated with the erroneous associations (paranoia, over-association of noise as voices and faces). Show me your wunderkind and i show you the shizophrenia in the family. I wonder if you could even retrain active run-away shizophrenic people to produce meaningfull creative outcomes. So lets go to the tenderloin and connect random physics…

I agree with the first paragraph, but think the second paragraph conflates genetically linked mental illness with drug-induced paranoia, delusions, and general brain rot (which is rarely particularly creative).

Re: New study shows highly creative people’s brains work differently from others'

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To connect the unconnected, a feature also seen in which brain-disease, often associated with the erroneous associations (paranoia, over-association of noise as voices and faces). Show me your wunderkind and i show you the shizophrenia in the family. I wonder if you could even retrain active run-away shizophrenic people to produce meaningfull creative outcomes. So lets go to the tenderloin and connect random physics…

> So lets go to the tenderloin and connect random physics and science wikipedia articles to a megaphone.

Is this word salad deliberate?

Re: New study shows highly creative people’s brains work differently from others'

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To connect the unconnected, a feature also seen in which brain-disease, often associated with the erroneous associations (paranoia, over-association of noise as voices and faces). Show me your wunderkind and i show you the shizophrenia in the family. I wonder if you could even retrain active run-away shizophrenic people to produce meaningfull creative outcomes. So lets go to the tenderloin and connect random physics…

Are you calling all creatives schizophrenic? Because, uh, citation needed, and that goes against my experiences of hanging out with nothing but creatives 90% of the time.

Us all being schizophrenic would be pretty revelatory if it was true.

Artists may be weird, but...

Re: New study shows highly creative people’s brains work differently from others'

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post #6

To connect the unconnected, a feature also seen in which brain-disease, often associated with the erroneous associations (paranoia, over-association of noise as voices and faces). Show me your wunderkind and i show you the shizophrenia in the family. I wonder if you could even retrain active run-away shizophrenic people to produce meaningfull creative outcomes. So lets go to the tenderloin and connect random physics…

> So lets go to the tenderloin and connect random physics and science wikipedia articles to a megaphone. Is this word salad deliberate?

Nope, just someone who is familiar with San-Francisco.

Re: New study shows highly creative people’s brains work differently from others'

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Whats the previous set of beliefs^H^H^H^H^H^H^H views that this is news?

The "news" are the findings of the paper. Not sure why beliefs should matter for the value of scientific work

Come on... An even slightly charitable reading of parents' comment would realize that they don't mean "belief" in the religious sense.

It's pretty safe to assume they are asking what the previously understood and accepted academic stance on the matter was, and are asking how the findings of this paper differ in a way to make it newsworthy.

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