TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints839
UR  - http://cogprints.org/839/
A1  - Snyder, Douglas M.
Y1  - 1991///
N2  - 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.
KW  - Godel's Incompleteness Theorem
KW  -  schizophrenia
KW  -  logic
KW  -  cognitive systems
KW  -  communication
KW  -  delusions
KW  -  hallucinations
KW  -  consistency
KW  -  incompleteness
TI  - An Alternative View of Schizophrenic Cognition
SP  - 211
AV  - public
EP  - 217
ER  -

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