=h2= Afterword to Finding a Grid

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In a sense there are messages for two audiences.

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The first audience might need only a simple takeaway and have casual interest in a little extra reading. For this audience the takeaway might be:

1) While so-called delusional beliefs are found in general populations, there are apparently self-maximizing delusional paranoias where the delusions tend toward maximum scope.

2) As persons take their attention and their proximity everywhere, if they learn to convert these into paranoia-related evidence, then they can/will find paranoia-related evidence *everywhere*.

3) In an attempt to explain finding *evidence everywhere* they will necessarily tend toward paranoia-like hypotheses or delusions of very broad scope.

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A second also most-important audience corresponds to so-called lived-experience communities. Persons with lived experience of paranoid delusions are more likely, I believe, to see value in the extra effort I have put into elaborating the notion of a grid.

Absent such experience, I imagine it could all look like an affectation.

(In either case, it might be over-intellectualized. On the other hand, repetition can be effective.)

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Under present circumstances I expect to never have the opportunity to revise the source text and the pdf.

I have intented to at least add the thought: others can and should come up with better terminology than my last-used compromises: etically-absurd evidence and etically-absurd hypotheses.

Immediately above I might have demonstrated better terms: paranoia-related evidence and paranoia-related hypotheses.

Other forms I have recently considered include "related evidence", "delusional evidence", "condition-enabled evidence", and similar.

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As of 2024-08-15 I am in hospital with a blocked intestine. Since I have advanced terminal neck cancer I am leaning towards declining surgery as well as IV sustenance.