Apophenia

The term is attributed to Klaus Conrad,who defined it as the “unmotivated seeing of connections” accompanied by a “specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness”.

In 1958, Klaus Conrad published a monograph titled Die beginnende Schizophrenie. Versuch einer Gestaltanalyse des Wahns (“The onset of schizophrenia: an attempt to form an analysis of delusion”),in which he described in groundbreaking detail the earliest stages of schizophrenia. He coined the word “Apophänie” to characterize the onset of delusional thinking in psychosis. This neologism was translated into English as “apophenia” (from the Greek apo[away from] + phaenein [to show]) to reflect the fact that a schizophrenic initially experiences delusion as revelation.

Daniel Kahnemantwo types of processing truth/reality whether narrative or historical during the processing which takes time as opposed to the visceral reaction

With Amos Tversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors that arise from heuristics and biases (Kahneman & Tversky, 1973; Kahneman, Slovic & Tversky, 1982; Tversky & Kahneman, 1974), and developed prospect theory (Kahneman & Tversky, 1979).

(From: Wikipedia)

Apophenia Links:

• Jorge Luis Borges‘s Book of Sand
• Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire
• Thomas Pynchon‘s Crying of Lot 49
• Hermann Rorschach’s Rorschach test
• Schactel Experienial Foundations

Epiphany Links:

• Jorge Luis Borges‘sThe Garden of Forking Paths
• Arthur Koestler’s  The Act of Creation
• Sigmund Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams

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