creators_name: Snyder, Douglas M. type: journalp datestamp: 1999-12-21 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:20 metadata_visibility: show title: An Alternative View of Schizophrenic Cognition ispublished: pub subjects: clin-psy subjects: phil-logic full_text_status: public keywords: Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, schizophrenia, logic, cognitive systems, communication, delusions, hallucinations, consistency, incompleteness abstract: An alternative view to the traditionally held view that schizophrenia is characterised by severely disordered cognition is presented. It is possible that apparently self-contradictory expressions of schizophrenics are well-formed communicative expressions of highly ordered cognitive systems. Building on the premise that behavior is in general communicative, and using Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem from logic as a model, it is shown that the most characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia (namely apparently self-contradictory thought, delusions and hallucinations) may indicate truths that cannot be derived within highly ordered cognitive systems. date: 1991 date_type: published publication: Speculations in Science and Technology volume: 14 number: 3 pagerange: 211-217 refereed: TRUE citation: Snyder, Douglas M. (1991) An Alternative View of Schizophrenic Cognition. [Journal (Paginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/839/3/schizophrenia.pdf