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It appears this person's high intelligence helped them cope with an otherwise very hard to treat condition.
by ITB 3y ago
It appears this person's high intelligence helped them cope with an otherwise very hard to treat condition.
- h0l0cube 3y agoMore equanimity than intelligence, and probably more epistemic humility than 'intellectual humility' > It is not important to know where the voices are coming from. It had just been demonstrated to me that prior to turning around I did not know their origin, and yet I was comfortable having taken on the “mere belief,” and as it turned out the false belief, that nobody was there. [...] And after I was forced to change my belief, it was still fine.
- giraffe_lady 3y ago> The most important part of my story is people. The reason that I am not in prison, homeless, or dead, is a few people who genuinely respect and care for me, and I them, not least through what some philosophers call “hermeneutical justice.” Without these people, there would be no “coping,” and the rest of what follows could never have happened. Author explicitly attributes it to support network instead. Are you very confident they're wrong about this important aspect of their own life that they have obviously considered carefully?