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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Thursday, March 10th, 2011 11:36pm PST - promote requested by Duckman33.

As an example Einstein is thought to have had bi-polar along with many other great physicists. Others were autistic or had something like Aspergers.

I think the key is that these individuals are able to look at society or normal rationalizations from a different aspect or with "rose-tinted glasses" and other "colors". It helps to look at a problem from a new perspective. This is also why many people DO use drugs, to force this perceptual change on the brain chemically. It's not an accident that it works in many cases. It's also not an accident that it fails as well.

For every breakthrough there is someone that is lost to their own delusions; forever trapped in a mind that can't understand reality. This is arguably the one thing humans have never gotten right: seeing reality as it is. Or, we refuse to see it, due to our biologically imposed psychology.

This is the most fascinating and the most unique aspect for humanity and humans: we not only can vary GREATLY on how we view reality, but we can describe it to each other with understanding and in great detail.

This is where Psychology as a field must tread lightly. For if we destroy every last shred of what we "think" is an error or a mistake due to our majority imposed societal and cultural norms, we may destroy one of our greatest attributes. Luckily, many have realized that even the most "normal" of us are delusional by default. As this is the only way we have to perceive what we know as reality.

We see reality through a lens and a filter; all of us. That lens can be warped, colored, broken, or very sharp. Likewise, our filter can do what it pleases and give us information with accuracy or lie to us with false or even made up information. It typically follows what evolution has designed for us: to be efficient, to be successful. We are a machine that uses a vast search engine that makes Google look like an elementary addition problem and memory that is amazingly powerful and yet it requires very little room to store it's information; and with both of these, together, our mind creates us. It brings our nodes, memories, and present perception together to give us sentience. We perceive a continuity to this existence that does not exist; yet, it's easy to see why you don't notice this, for what can you notice if you have no memory of it? That is our view, our window--it is a delusional one by definition as it does not SHOW reality, but only approximates it and it can vary greatly.

However, evolution while responsible for what we are, most likely did not have a design in play for true sentience. In that one miscalculation, humanity was born.

That and this is who we are.

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An amazing, historic bit of marketing - that I think is actually a lot better than the 1984 commercial. The best part, is that it's true. Here's to the crazy ones.