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Here s to the crazy ones The misfits The rebels The troublemakers The round pegs in the square holes The ones who see things differently They re not fond of rules And they have no respect for the status quo You can quote them disagree with them glorify or vilify them About the only thing you can t do is ignore them Because they change things They push the human race forward And while some may see them as the crazy ones we see genius Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do Rob Siltanen

Maybe each human being lives in a unique world a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans If reality differs from person to person can we speak of reality singular or shouldn t we really be talking about plural realities And if there are plural realities are some more true more real than others What about the world of a schizophrenic Maybe it s as real as our world Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not but should instead say His reality is so different from ours that he can t explain his to us and we can t explain ours to him The problem then is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently there occurs a breakdown in communication and there is the real illness Philip K Dick

Apophenia means finding pattern or meaning where others don t Feelings of revelation and ecstasies usually accompany it It has some negative connotations in psychological terminology when it implies finding meaning or pattern where none exists and some positive ones when it implies finding something important useful or beautiful It thus links creativity and psychosis genius and madness Peter J Caroll

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