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Sylvia Nasar _ A Beautiful Mind
Among the students, the Phantom was often held up as a cautionary figure: Anybody who was too much of a grind or who lacked social graces was warned that he or she was "going to wind up like the Phantom."10 Yet if a new student complained that having him around made him feel uncomfortable, he was immediately warned: "He was a better mathematician than you'll ever be!"
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Sylvia Nasar _ A Beautiful Mind
several studies have since shown that basic military training during peacetime can precipitate schizophrenia in men with a hitherto unsuspected vulnerability to the illness.15
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Sylvia Nasar _ A Beautiful Mind
42 A few months after Nash got out, Baumecker called the Institute for Advanced Study and asked to speak to Oppenheimer about whether Nash was now sane. Oppenheimer replied, "That's something no one on earth can tell you, doctor.
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Sylvia Nasar _ A Beautiful Mind
James Glass, a political scientist at the University of Maryland who has studied the delusions of schizophrenia, writes, "Delusion provides a certain, often unbreakable identity, and its absolute character can maneuver the self into an unyielding position. In this respect, it is the internal mirror of political authoritarianism, the tyrant inside the self … an internal domination as deadly as any external tyranny.
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Sylvia Nasar _ A Beautiful Mind
Nash's lifelong quest for meaning, control, and recognition in the context of a continuing struggle, not just in society, but in the warring impulses of his paradoxical self, was now reduced to a caricature. Just as the overconcreteness of a dream is related to the intangible themes of waking life, Nash's search for a piece of paper, a carte d'identité, mirrored his former pursuit of mathematical insights. Yet the gulf between the two recognizably related Nashes was as great as that between Kafka, the controlling creative genius, struggling between the demands of his self-chosen vocation and ordinary life, and K, a caricature of Kafka, the helpless seeker of a piece of paper that will validate his existence, rights, and duties. Delusion is not just fantasy but compulsion. Survival, both of the self and the world, appears to be at stake. Where once he had ordered his thoughts and modulated them, he was now subject to their peremptory and insistent commands.
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Sylvia Nasar _ A Beautiful Mind
...his condition in Roanoke is a strong testament that lassitude, indifference and the peculiarities of his thought were primarily the consequences of his illness and not of the early attempts to treat it. The popular view that anti-psychotics were chemical straight jackets that suppressed clear thinking and voluntary activity seems not to be borne out in Nash's case.If anything, the only periods when he was relatively free of hallucinations, delusions and the erosion of will were the periods following either insulin treatment or the use of anti psychotics. In other words, rather than reducing Nash to a zombie, medication seemed to reduce zombie like behavior.
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Sylvia Nasar _ A Beautiful Mind
A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a strong compulsion to learn by doing is one of the most reliable signs of genius.
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Sylvia Nasar _ A Beautiful Mind
I thought I could save a very worthwhile person.
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Sylvia Nasar _ A Beautiful Mind
It was like a tornado, you want to hold on to everything you have, you don't want to let anything go.
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Sylvia Nasar _ A Beautiful Mind
People look to the order of numbers when the world falls apart.
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Sylvia Nasar _ A Beautiful Mind
Hey Nash! You scared?''Terrified,mortified,petrified...stupefied by you!
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Sylvia Nasar _ A Beautiful Mind
RAND scientists tried to tell their wives that the decision whether to buy or not to buy a washing machine was an 'optimization problem'.
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