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Originally Posted by carlo
This may be an aside but it is interesting that Nash was diagnosed as Schizophrenic, received medical treatment with an ineffective modality, but what happened after that? Came in late on the thread, sorry.
Here his account from wiki:
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″I spent times of the order of five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis and always attempting a legal argument for release. And it did happen that when I had been long enough hospitalized that I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research. In these interludes of, as it were, enforced rationality, I did succeed in doing some respectable mathematical research. Thus there came about the research for "Le problème de Cauchy pour les équations différentielles d'un fluide général"; the idea that Prof. Hironaka called "the Nash blowing-up transformation"; and those of "Arc Structure of Singularities" and "Analyticity of Solutions of Implicit Function Problems with Analytic Data".
But after my return to the dream-like delusional hypotheses in the later 60's I became a person of delusionally influenced thinking but of relatively moderate behavior and thus tended to avoid hospitalization and the direct attention of psychiatrists.
Thus further time passed. Then gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort. So at the present time I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists
If you read all his stuff its clear he had to lie about his wellness to be released.
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John Charles Martin Nash, was born soon afterward, but remained nameless for a year because his mother felt that her husband should have a say in the name.
Can't remember which son also has 'mental illness' and has genius traits like his Dad.
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Nash began to show signs of extreme paranoia and his wife later described his behavior as erratic, as he began speaking of characters like Charles Herman and William Parcher who were putting him in danger. Nash seemed to believe that all men who wore red ties were part of a communist conspiracy against him. Nash mailed letters to embassies in Washington, D.C., declaring that they were establishing a government
I feel like there is at least some obvious truth to this.
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In 1961, Nash was committed to the New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton. Over the next nine years, he spent periods in psychiatric hospitals, where, aside from receiving antipsychotic medications, he was administered insulin shock therapy.[18][19][20]
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I dont' know how we didn't see and don't see that this is simple just wiping thoughts and memories from his mind.
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Nash dates the start of what he terms "mental disturbances" to the early months of 1959 when his wife was pregnant.
3 women in his life committed him and were 'advised' on how and where to do so.
Nash has developed work on the role of money in society.
[QUOTE]I didn't understand his lecture 'idea money' but my guess is it will have a dramatic impact on economy in the future, which is obviously tied to peace and technology.
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In 2011, the National Security Agency declassified letters written by Nash in 1950s, in which he had proposed a new encryption-decryption machine.[9] The letters show that Nash had anticipated many concepts of modern cryptography, which are based on computational hardness.
code breaking for the government. Too bad he went crazy and had to put in comas to cure him?
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Swedenborg, considered a great scientist by his peers, in his early 50's had a change of pace, including so called hallucinations or visions (depends on whom you are talking to) but escaped the doctors. I hear the scientists never forgave him but could do nothing due to his particular status in the world, doctors aside.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg
Ya thats my point, how do we possibly think we can just declare these people insane. To do so you have to make a definitive statement about divinity and our spiritual origins. You have to invalidate the possibility of time travel, and extraterrestrial contact.
I'm not a conspiracy type person, and I'm not arguing those things exist for real, but its much more logical than taking a genius labeling him crazy and pumping him full of insulin for weeks at a time thinking that will cure him.
My point really is that Nash and many people throughout history with stories like Jesus or Buddha, likely Swedenborg all shared the same qualities.
This may be a simple brain disorder, Swedenborg may not have been talking to the Christian god, maybe it was something else but he personified it that way because of his conditioning. Man has never explored this so one would be quite confused in the light of such 'voices'