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People suffering nervous breakdowns often do a lot of research, to find explanations for what they are undergoing. The research, of course, fails....

The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque....

Fat later developed a theory that the universe is made out of information. He started keeping a journal -- had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a derranged person.

-- Philip K. Dick. Valis. 1981. p.20-21.
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