--- abstract: '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, or prophetic power, may be a mathematical apparatus such as time-delay embedding. In this context, predictive accuracy may be the reflection of an appropriate choice of the embedding parameters. We further put this in the perspective of mental illness, 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, 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.' altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: - radulesc@colorado.edu creators_name: - family: Radulescu given: Anca honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2008-07-30 date_type: completed datestamp: 2008-08-10 08:59:40 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/61/55 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 6155 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/6155/2/blurb.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: ~ issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'psychic, prediction, cognitive, mathematics, embedding, delusion, schizophrenia' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:10 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: TRUE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: FALSE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 36 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2008-08-10 08:59:40 subjects: - phil-mind - cog-psy succeeds: 6154 suggestions: "Dear Editor,\r\n\r\nAn earlier draft of this submission did not contain the author information, which is why I had required its removal. Please, consider this manuscript by itself, and not as a linked update. It has not yet been submitted for publication, however I expect it to be the final version of this work. Please, consider depositing it on the archive as a preprint.\r\n\r\nThank you for your help,\r\nAnca Radulescu " sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Psychic embedding — vision and delusion type: preprint userid: 8088 volume: ~