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Action and perception are both forms of brain based prediction. Both depend on a common program of Bayesian best guessing- it is just a difference in who leads and who follows. The world as we perceive it is just our brain interpreting data flow from the outside world in a controlled hallucination.

Value is a social construct when a produced item is put in relation to other items. Value shows how non-rational economic systems are, i.e. cryptocurrency is value on steroids.

"By far the most common reasons however had to do with the intensities of social bonds they experienced . . . Security takes many forms. There is the security of knowing that one has a statistically smaller chance of getting shot with an arrow and then there is the security of knowing that there are people in the world who will care deeply if one is."

Slovenia psych hospitals showed religious delusions until the communist regime and then climbed back when people were able to worship again.

'For a symptom characterised as a break from reality, psychosis keeps remarkably up to date with the outside world. Whatever culture one is steeped in will show up.'