People suffering nervous breakdowns often do a lot of research, to find explanations for what they are undergoing. The research, of course, fails. It fails as far as we are concerned, but the unhappy fact is that it sometimes provides a spurious rationalization to the disintegrating mind. The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.
People suffering nervous breakdowns often do a lot of research, to find explanations for what they are undergoing. The research, of course, fails. It fails as far as we are concerned, but the unhappy fact is that it sometimes provides a spurious rationalization to the disintegrating mind. The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.
P.K. Dick, Valis
Thanks for the book suggestion! My copy of "Lamb" arrived today.