#deluded thinking

[masturbatress]

Guys whining about someone or other's ozempic face and ass left and right like human skin ever just flawlessly retracts back no matter how slow a loss of mass is, once you hit yer Warranty Expiry years.

[fenrislorsrai]

Can't Tickle Yourself? That's a Good Thing

Studies of Tit-For-Tat Games And Links To Delusional Thinking

Two years after publishing the tit-for-tat study, Wolpert, working with a slightly different group of researchers, re-ran the experiment. They reasoned that our brains might discount the feeling of our own actions to help us differentiate between self-generated and externally generated sensations. Put another way, reducing the sensation of our own actions makes alien sensations—say, a tap on the back—more noticeable. To test the idea, the researchers had schizophrenics play tit-for-tat against themselves. Schizophrenics have trouble recognizing their own actions—that is, they often attribute their behavior to an alien source. Some can even tickle themselves. If our brains discount the feeling of our own actions to help us differentiate between self-generated and externally generated sensations, then a group of subjects who can’t make this distinction might simply be missing this sensory reduction. In that case, reasoned Wolpert and his team, schizophrenics should be better at playing tit-for-tat by the rules. And they were. When the robot pushed on the fingers of schizophrenics they were much better at pushing back on themselves with the same amount of force the robot had applied. Their brains didn’t discount the consequences of their own actions as much as the brains of healthy subjects did. But the tale of the tit-for-tat experiment doesn’t end there. This past year, Wolpert, now working at Cambridge with another group of researchers, ran the tit-for-tat study a third time. Thirty healthy subjects were recruited. They played the game against themselves and completed a short survey designed to gauge delusional thoughts. The survey asked questions like, “Do you ever feel as if you have been chosen by God in some way? and “Are you often worried that your partner may be unfaithful?”—questions that, on their own, are endorsed by about one in four people. Wolpert and his colleagues compared the survey results to subjects' tit-for-tat performance. They found that delusional thinkers, just like schizophrenics, were better at playing tit-for-tat by the rules—they were better at pushing back on themselves with the same amount of force the robot applied. A reduced ability to discount the sensory consequences of self-generated actions was not just a consequence of schizophrenia—it seemed to be, more generally, a characteristic of deluded thinkers.