[theoh]

Being schizophrenic does not mean that the brain/mind is "AWOL". Schizophrenics endure experience like the rest of us. The idea that the insane have "no mind" is an old-fashioned, dehumanizing idea which should not be tolerated even on HN where everyone is of course young, healthy and overconfident. (!)

[taneq]

I was thinking about this just the other day, the term "demented" literally means "with mind removed".

[elbrownos]

Actually it means "out of one's mind"

[taneq]

Huh. So it does, thanks for that!

...as a tangent, I'm impressed and slightly weirded out by the fact that I googled for "etymology demented" and it answered directly with an etymological tree for the word. Google's getting smarter.