Eco-Schizophrenia: The Brain That Knows Too Much

Too much information: Richard Dadd

HT Simon Sellars. The hypothesis is that schizophrenic brains reward learning too much--thus giving rise to information overdose. You can model this with computers. Bingo.

It's called hyperlearning. How uncanny is that?

I have a strong intuition that my schizophrenic brother Steve does this. I remember after every gig (he started that band Senser), he would recall exactly where he had made trivial drumming errors. I mean exactly.

This is congruent with my intuitions about ecological awareness as psychosis. In a reality where there is no away, no background and thus no foreground, we face a loss of meaning and a heightening of knowledge, along with hugely amplified risk. Like looking at a painting by mentally troubled Richard Dadd.