Neuroleptics and Psychic Indifference

Psychic reality and psychic change: a therapeutic journey.

The subject of this study is the mind and behavior of a man, portrayed as a blind photographer in his characterization in the Australian film, "Proof". The hero, Martin, in the Australian movie Proof, paradoxically is searching for proof that his mother lied to him a belief that he is compelled to hold on to and

Psychic numbing and genocide

Most people are caring and will exert great effort to rescue individual victims whose needy plight comes to their attention. These same good people, however, often become numbly indifferent to the plight of individuals who are “one of many” in a much greater problem. Why does this occur? The answer to this question will help us answer a related question that is the topic of this paper: Why, ove...

Ignorance and Indifference*

The epistemic state of complete ignorance is not a probability distribution. In it, we assign the same, unique, ignorance degree of belief to any contingent outcome and each of its contingent, disjunctive parts. That this is the appropriate way to represent complete ignorance is established by two instruments, each individually strong enough to identify this state. They are the principle of ind...

Envelopes and Indifference

Stable Marriage and Indifference

It is well known that every instance of the classical stable marriage problem admits at least one stable matching, and that such a matching can be found in O(n’) time by application of the Gale/Shapley algorithm. In the classical version of the problem, each person must rank the members of the opposite sex in strict order of preference. In practical applications, a person may not wish (or be ab...