Response to John. On schizophrenics

John Kushman-
"Schizophrenics and Memory palaces

Schizophrenics are someone considerred to have a mental disorder which distorts they way in which they percieve. Oddly enough we could all be considered schizo's to the average person with our memory palaces; figments of our imagination's that have the possibility to store unlimited amounts of information. Right now My own has a punch of somber students with their heads down in frustration with our penicls frozen inches above the desk while a drunk professor stumbles about with a mug in his hands and green gills etched behind his ears while A certain students has a crooked mischevious smile acrossed his face with glazed eyes and a crooked hat pointing down acroos his left cheek. A giant Calendar flaps in my mind between March 17 and Febraury 20. If this is what my mind has placed in the palace right now, tell me what will happen when i begin placing theory's in them and letting them form into others. What will happen. From another perspective what happens when i begen writing novels and store chapters inside and let them go crazy, who's to say they won't loose control and form into odd things i have no explanation for? Right now I/we all have the beginning of a very real and yet not real world forming inside our memory. Keep this in mind."

This reminded me of a test I took. One of my english teachers in high school administered his final at a coffee shop near campus rather than in the classroom. He did this so he could test students with an oral discussion of the semester's content, rather than an essay or objective test. The teacher's main point of the class was the debate over the existance of an objective moral truth. I was prepared to argue for such a universal truth, but as I walked into the shop and sat down, I noticed a woman sitting by herself at another table. She was having a heated argument with someone across from her, that only she could see. It was then that I realized truth is subjective. Her reality, or perception of reality, was very different from mine. This, however, did not make her wrong. My perception was simply identical to most other people's -maybe, who's to say?