Mental Illness: Mind Arithmetic to Measure Delusions and Hallucinations | Psychiatry | Psychedelics | Overdose
Delusions are described around fixed and false beliefs. Hallucinations with false perceptions. Both, above a certain threshold are mental illnesses.
Delusions and hallucinations are conditions of the mind. But how does the mind bring them about?
Conceptually, the human mind is the collection of all the electrical and chemical impulses of nerve cells, with their features and interactions.
Electrical impulses are travel agents or quantities, while chemical impulses are stations or properties. Quantities [in sets] relay to acquire properties [in sets] across mind locations. It is the acquisition that determines what is known or experienced in any moment.
Features of quantities include early-splits or go-before, where some in a set go ahead to acquire properties like before for ease, such that a match makes the process continue, but if different the incoming one heads to the right direction, explaining what is termed as predictive coding, processing and prediction error.
There are also sequences, old and new, defining what path sets of quantities take to acquire properties. Old sequences define procedures and order of things. It is what makes it easy to know when something is the way it should be or not. New sequences define adventure. Old sequences may sometimes lead to cliché or boredom.
There is prioritization and pre-prioritization provisioned by the rotation of properties, when struck by quantities. Prioritized interactions are the most with attention on the mind, in an instance.
There are also stairs or drifts, which are differential locations in properties that define what is special to brain centers. For example, how some circuits in the brain are dedicated to a function more than others, or why an emotion is different from a feeling, or why the taste of something is different from a smell. These stairs or drifts are where sets of chemical impulses are rationed.
Features of properties include a principal spot, with the most domination. It also includes thin and thick shapes, defining dimensions of what is held. For example, chairs are thick properties, but a specific thing about a chair is a thin property. There are also bounce points, used by quantities to go to the next, aligning with sequences.
There is also the sense of self, or the source for subjective experiences in one of the stairs or drifts for properties. Some of the stairs are accessible, becoming the source for intentionality or free will. This is possible because sets of chemical impulses have rations that determine these specifications, degrees of acquisitions and the sense of self or subjective experience. This rationing determines how they hold memory or conduct regulation, or induce emotions, or shape feelings, across impulses.
How might delusions and hallucinations [with variations in paranoia and psychosis] be estimated?
They occur within the framework of interactions and features of sets of impulses across the mind, just that the completions or acquisitions that are necessary to check are missing. This miss could be long-temporal of sort, where it may take a while to return, keeping them in that state.
When someone sees food in a dumpster, the sensory input gets integrated in the thalamus, relaying for interpretation in the cerebral cortex. It involves sets of electrical and chemical impulses.
But through the process, some in the original set, break out or split, to acquire what a dumpster is, and that the food may have gone bad, or infested or the possible nausea consequence. This makes it off limits for consumption.
In a hallucination, this is different, the split to acquire other parts of what a dumpster is, or that the food might be bad or infested may not be there, or the consequence. It may just be seen as food.
In the mind there could be a few problems, first with splits, next with sequences — which should have used an old one instead making a new one, and that the drifts or rationing for the sense of self, may be deficient creating a detachment from the self [or some dignity] of going to pick food from the dumpster.
In a delusion, seeing something and taking it for something else may follow a similar process, where some of the features and interactions of sets of impulses are defective. Delusion may also be a result of being a reality so much that the other possibilities that are not experienced are discounted, making risks possible around the others.
Principally, the arithmetic for the human mind is the sum of all the divisions and their subdivisions of mind, equaling 1.
That is:
t + M + F + E = 1
where M is memory but subsumes perceptions, sensations, regulations, intelligence, creativity, reasoning and so forth. F as feelings subsuming pain, thirst, cravings and so forth. E as emotion subsumes delight, worry and so on.
This is an expression for states of mind.
The other, to express the total of all the sets of impulses across the mind, or the summation of all the quantities and properties of mind.
q + p = 1
Delusions and Hallucinations
There is a problem with splits that should acquire other properties in pre-prioritization, or to acquire them quickly in prioritization and move on. There is also a problem with sequences, where new sequences are preferred [for the acquisition of certain properties] than old ones. The new sequences could fade off or not be used again — if it completes, making some regular experiences seem new.
There could also be pleasure or a variation of it in the principal spot, or something else, so that it attracts several un-split pre-prioritized interactions. There is also a problem with the rationing of chemical messages in the drifts, so that fractions for general normality are incomplete, including for the sense of self.
principal spot = a
pre-prioritized interaction = r
prioritized interaction = i
splits = x
sequences = c
sense of self = s
a = i — x + r — c — s
where the maximum for a in a moment can be 0.40
for i, it may be around 0.20, since splits are fewer and sequences are often new, slowing what should have be regular
splits are normally between 0.05 and 0.15, with 0.10 for the one that goes first [becoming prioritized] and 0.05 for the following one, limiting to just two.
Splits, in general, when listening to music or in some other processes are more than two.
But in a delusion or hallucination, without splits, the lower number is taken, which is 0.05
Sequences for old is low, since it exists already, at 0.01, but can be up to 0.10 for a new one. This makes it part of the problem, where the max of making a new one is its own process.
The sense of self is absent, which though often in pre-prioritization or around 0.01, may be lower, causing detachment.
Delusions are similar in their effects to hallucinations and the interactions and features of impulses involved can be estimated with this arithmetic.
Psychedelic experiences can also be estimated with this, especially for induced hypnagogic [before sleep] and hypnopompic [after waking] hallucinations.
This arithmetic can also be used to estimate for overdose in psychiatry, where pleasure or a variation of it moves into the principal spot and the combination with a prioritized interaction, for a longer than usual duration result in lower than proper minimums for sets of other impulses including for respiration. The arithmetic can also estimate the side-effects of psychiatric drugs.
