FWD: Schizophrenia 'helped the ascent of man'

[Dave Monroe]

>From the current Scientific American (April 2001),
"First Gene for Schizophrenia Discovered" ...

http://www.sciam.com/news/032001/2.html

There's also an interesting article by Roy F.
Baumeister called "Violent Pride," on aggression as a
result of high, rather than low, self-esteem, but it's
not online.  And seeing as how you're on the Bateson
list ...

Heims, Steve Joshua.  Constructing
   a Social Science for Postwar America:
   The Cybernetics Group, 1946-1953.
   Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993.

Published in cloth in 1991 under the title, The
Cybernetics Group.  See also ...

Heims, Steve J.  John Von Neumann and
   Norbert Wiener: From Mathematics to
   the Technologies of Life and Death.
   Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1980.

Wiener's been mentioned here, of course, his The Human
Use of Human Beings being, in particular, a Pynchonian
intertext, I believe Terrance (?) brought up R.D.
Laing as well, but, in retrospect, I'm surprised
Gregory Bateson (not to mention John von Neumann)
haven't been namechecked as well.  Consider it done
...

KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:
> >
> >THE OBSERVER
> >Schizophrenia 'helped the ascent of man'
> >Scientist says gene mutation is key to genius and
> despair
> >
> >Robin McKie, science editor
> >
> >Full text:
>
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4154224,00.html
> >
> >_

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