Morgellons 2.0

    Strange enough title for a note, don't you find?
    What is Morgellon you can read here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgellon and then follow the links. If you spend a little time and get acquainted with publications and discussions on this topic, in an attempt to find out if there is such a thing and what’s what, then you will probably understand my further thoughts.

    In short, this seems to be an existing disease that causes strange lesions of the skin in the form of ulcers with cellulose fibers emerging from them, as well as damage to the nervous system and a number of other organic disorders. In Russian, there were only a couple of publications on this topic on medical and news sites. Well, for example, here www.newsru.com/world/29may2006/desease.html
    Such a strange thing, mentioned not in the yellow press, intrigued me. On the one hand, I decided to choose her as the main subject of our article, but her object will not be infectious diseases at all.
    Now attention, the question is: do you think this disease exists?
    I killed about a day of my time for an impromptu investigation. And I don’t know what to answer. At the same time, the point is not that there is not enough information - there is a huge amount of it; all this time I have been engaged not so much in finding it, as in reading, viewing pictures, and so on.
    There is a research fund for this disease, many publications have been published under its auspices, faqs have been compiled on this topic, and a lot of suggestions and suggestions have been put forward. It seems like he registered over 4000 diseases in different parts of the world, concentrating around various foci. Heaps of images, interviews with patients, videos and photographs of skin lesions up to a thousandfold increase are posted on the Internet. However, what is important in our case, not a single patient has been recorded in Russia, so without making long trips to see anything related to this topic with your own eyes is impossible.
    To continue, there are a bunch of pro et contra publications, sick blogs, online clubs of anonymous morgellists, online forums on this topic, videos on youtube, photos on flickr and other media material. There are extensive analytical articles by independent experts who ordered cellulose fibers for a kind of independent examination, with photographs, comments, but then the samples seem to be different, then they turn out to be just a hair or a thread, or, on the contrary, having no analogues. Photographs of samples themselves under magnification live their intricate lives, up to the point that someone takes a macro picture of a thread from a sofa, just like that, in order to create a duck and starts it up, experts discover it with degrees and with two classes of education and start vying again discuss what it is and again do not come to the same conclusions. But in fact, for each of the countless photos and videos, you can find relevant discussions, opinions, opinions of experts (whose diplomas I also can’t see without going on a long journey). A lot of cases are recorded when mentally unbalanced people, falling under the influence of these publications themselves begin to consider themselves sick with this disease. Or maybe they really get sick, as it manifests itself supposedly periodically and the symptoms of the disease affect the nervous system until the appearance of hallucinations. But according to the logic of things, the “train” of mentally unstable people is precisely the most real manifestation of this phenomenon. A lot of cases are recorded when mentally unbalanced people, falling under the influence of these publications themselves begin to consider themselves sick with this disease. Or maybe they really get sick, as it manifests itself supposedly periodically and the symptoms of the disease affect the nervous system until the appearance of hallucinations. But according to the logic of things, the “train” of mentally unstable people is precisely the most real manifestation of this phenomenon. A lot of cases are recorded when mentally unbalanced people, falling under the influence of these publications themselves begin to consider themselves sick with this disease. Or maybe they really get sick, as it manifests itself supposedly periodically and the symptoms of the disease affect the nervous system until the appearance of hallucinations. But according to the logic of things, the “train” of mentally unstable people is precisely the most real manifestation of this phenomenon.
    Am I the only one to ask similar questions? No, for example, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in America were also puzzled by this. And it seems like they formed a commission to deal with the question of at least the existence once and for all. However, apparently, like mine, it did not work out - I could not find official papers on the activities of this commission. The commission did not say either yes or no, although it seems like it has been working for a year (well, or it has been in the process of formation all this time). I am afraid of this commission, if they work “in a modern way” I will have to deal with the same materials as me. Plus they have the opportunity to meet with the sick, which I do not have. Was it difficult to do in a year, do you think? In general, does this commission exist?
    In order to describe all the hypotheses voiced and structured to provide links on the subject, I would have to spend another day, however, if it suddenly seems interesting, try it yourself.
    However, let us return to the second word (figure) in the title of the essay.
    We all witnessed the victorious procession of media viruses on RuNet.
    A person can feel something and watch something, and from this the brain creates a model of the environment, a huge database of the history of the individual's interaction with her. There is a culture - all the same, environmental phenomena are reflected in words, works, scientific hypotheses, and so on. But then another layer appeared. Online communities, like cortical columns in our brains process information, like they digest it in their own way, discussions on a separate issue of skeptics and believers, Gnostics and agnostics, engineers and poets, supporters of different political camps proceed in accordance with the laws of some new social and communicative mechanics. The cortical column in our brain (this is such a closely related group of about a hundred neurons) receives a signal from another column or neuron leading to a photosensitive cell, it passes it through itself and somehow reacts or does not react at all, but, note, its activity it’s not aimed at finding some kind of truth about the nature of the signal - a neuron, in fact, is a living cattle that tries to organize interactions with the environment so that they favorably affect the balance of substances inside it. Similarly, a person in his judgments about the false and the true, beautiful and ugly, in disputes about this, can be represented by the same neuron who, through social interactions, tries to create a psychic metabolism that is comfortable for himself - get approval, a point for karma, fame, powdered opponent etc. it passes it through itself and somehow reacts or does not react at all, but, mind you, while its activity is not aimed at finding some kind of truth about the nature of the signal - a neuron, in fact, is a living cattle that tries to organize interactions with the environment so that they favorably affect the balance of substances inside it. Similarly, a person in his judgments about the false and the true, beautiful and ugly, in disputes about this, can be represented by the same neuron who, through social interactions, tries to create a psychic metabolism that is comfortable for himself - get approval, a point for karma, fame, powdered opponent etc. it passes it through itself and somehow reacts or does not react at all, but, mind you, while its activity is not aimed at finding some kind of truth about the nature of the signal - a neuron, in fact, is a living cattle that tries to organize interactions with the environment so that they favorably affect the balance of substances inside it. Similarly, a person in his judgments about the false and the true, beautiful and ugly, in disputes about this, can be represented by the same neuron who, through social interactions, tries to create a psychic metabolism that is comfortable for himself - get approval, a point for karma, fame, powdered opponent etc. This is a livestock, which tries to organize interactions with the environment so that they favorably affect the balance of substances inside it. Similarly, a person in his judgments about the false and the true, beautiful and ugly, in disputes about this, can be represented by the same neuron who, through social interactions, tries to create a psychic metabolism that is comfortable for himself - get approval, a point for karma, fame, powdered opponent etc. This is a livestock, which tries to organize interactions with the environment so that they favorably affect the balance of substances inside it. Similarly, a person in his judgments about the false and the true, beautiful and ugly, in disputes about this, can be represented by the same neuron who, through social interactions, tries to create a psychic metabolism that is comfortable for himself - get approval, a point for karma, fame, powdered opponent etc.
    Of course, among the communities there is a specialization - well, for example, users of the auto.ru portal do not care about contemporary modernism in contemporary art - they talk about cars, but they will be interested in business news - somehow you need to earn money on machines - there are connections in various areas the real world is reflected in virtual communities. The connection between nerve cells in the visual cortex also topologically to a certain extent reflects the location of photosensitive cells on the retina. And the word “leg” and the word “table” also in our understanding have a relationship between themselves, coming from the real world. Changes in stock value reflect the success of a particular company. Let's go back to the brain - the neuron to which the signal hit only the first of a huge number of neurons that, one way or another, will respond to this event, a distant echo can also come back to the auditory cortex and where only not, well or not huge - it is quite possible this signal will be suppressed at this initial stage, but it is useless to look for truth or falsehood in this process. A mechanism outside these categories has worked - in this case, neurophysiological, in the case of morgellons - social. For some reason, people began to send each other pictures with a “medical man” and a “chumazik,” for some reason the murder of one person causes a loud resonance, and the other - zero. You should not blame everything on the secret frauds of the government and corporations with our minds - they would be glad, probably, only the attempts of some manipulations fade away at the entrance for some reason, while others get resonance beyond all expectations and you can predict all this only in certain, very narrow , limits.
    I don’t know how to correctly lead the essay to the end, you may have to limit yourself to the lyrics.
    If you draw a parallel to the online, and just human, social community with the brain, then maybe the Morgellon’s disease, a picture with a medical doctor is just his thought, a kind of elusive system-wide process in which you can’t just poke a finger and say “here it is!” . And this is not a unique property of the Internet. Take the same fashion: this summer everyone wears flared pants, and next summer torn jeans are gaining popularity. And not necessarily at the entrance of this there must be some event in an explicit form - for example, a popular actor in ripped jeans in a freshly released film (new technology, political event, and so on). Why this particular stimulus among all will cause a resonance to understand and predict is now practically impossible. But the merit of the Internet in understanding this issue, I see only in the fact that it makes these "thoughts", arising in the intricacies of social interactions that are noticeable to our eyes, but they do not exist at all in order for a particular person to understand a specific issue, they exist on a different level, on their own. And I, taking actions to search for information, as well as scribbling and publishing this article, feel like another nerve cell in this process.
    Therefore, to the question of the existence of this disease, I admit the answer is that this is another spontaneous social information process out of many.

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