?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Psychic+embedding+%E2%80%94+vision+and+delusion&rft.creator=Radulescu%2C+Anca&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=The+paper+introduces+the+idea+that+the+human+brain+may+apply+complex+mathematical+modules+in+order+to+process+and+understand+the+world.+We+speculate+that+the+substrate+of+what+appears+outwardly+as+intuition%2C+or+prophetic+power%2C+may+be+a+mathematical+apparatus+such+as+time-delay+embedding.+In+this+context%2C+predictive+accuracy+may+be+the+reflection+of+an+appropriate+choice+of+the+embedding+parameters.+We+further+put+this+in+the+perspective+of+mental+illness%2C+and+search+for+the+possible+differences+between+good+intuition+and+delusive+ideation.+We+speculate+that+the+task+at+which+delusional+schizophrenic+patients+falter+is+not+necessarily+of+perception%2C+but+rather+of+model+selection.+Failure+of+the+psychotic+patient+to+correctly+choose+the+embedding+parameters+may+readily+lead+to+misinterpretation+of+an+accurate+perception+through+an+altered+reconstructed+of+the+object+perceived.&rft.date=2008-07-30&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6155%2F2%2Fblurb.pdf&rft.identifier=++Radulescu%2C+Anca++(2008)+Psychic+embedding+%E2%80%94+vision+and+delusion.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6155%2F