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| John Nash
After my return to the dream-like delusional hypotheses in the later '60s, I became a person of delusionally influenced thinking but of relatively moderate behavior and thus tended to avoid hospitalization and the direct attention of psychiatrists. Bluefield, a small city in a comparatively remote geographical location in the Appalachians, was not a community of scholars or of high technology. By the time I was a student in high school... I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by itself p times where p is a prime. I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. I thought of the voices as... something a little different from aliens. I thought of them more like angels... It's really my subconscious talking, it was really that... I know that now. I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research. It's almost as if a demon might have passed from one host to another. My beginning as a legally recognized individual occurred on June 13, 1928, in Bluefield, West Virginia, in the Bluefield Sanitarium, a hospital that no longer exists. My parents provided an encyclopedia, Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia, that I learned a lot from by reading it as a child. One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos. |
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