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by Aeronwen 1836 days ago
The state machine of those conditions ends up generating the outline to a PKD novel.

I'll avoid your schizophrenia generator, thanks.

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* The simulation shall invoke feelings of paranoia and the sense of communication with a higher intelligence during user's formative years via consumption of psychotropic substances, faithfully re-creating the sensations of schizophrenia.

* The simulation will slowly reveal increasingly clear contact with a higher intelligence as adulthood sets in, throughout which the enigma of the user's role in the outcome of the simulated world will morph into intrinsic understanding of, and harmony with, the simulated world. This marks the transition away from purely schizophrenic perceptions to grandiose delusions that manifest in a progressively convincing fashion.