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The earth-shaking of Hollywood is not important to Hugo, because after determining the partner, Hugo put all his experience on the adaptation of the script.

Hugo has searched for information for nearly three weeks, but still does not have a clear idea. He not only read the "Beautiful Mind" biographical novel three times, but also carefully watched a story about John- The latest chapter of Nash's interview documentary: Rebirth of Go Dream.

Among many literary works, John Nash and his game theory are hot focuses, not just mathematics and economics. Hugo gradually discovered that game theory is also an absolute hot spot in the cutting-edge research of other disciplines. It seems that adding a little game theory to your own research will make the whole thesis fashionable. The more fields that are far from game theory, such as biology, comparative literature, history, etc., the more scholars rack their brains. I want to apply game theory to my own research.

This is a very interesting phenomenon, until Hugo discovered that psychology also took John Nash as a research object. However, it is not John's game theory, but John himself. This is also what Hugo hopes for discovering that interview documentary. Hugo went to the headquarters of the cbs television station in Burbank and found this documentary for two hours.

The first sentence of the interview narration is very interesting, "John Nash once suffered from severe schizophrenia, but he insisted that his disease was cured entirely by willpower."

It is not a secret that John suffers from schizophrenia. On the contrary, it has become one of his important labels. However, John hated mental hospitals, drugs, and doctors. He still has palpitations when he talks about his wife sending him to the mental hospital.

John has been hospitalized twice before and after. The first was at Macleans Hospital, which treats the upper class. The doctors there treat schizophrenia as a mental illness and do psychological counseling every day, trying to dig out the cause of the illness from his childhood experience. John’s colleague Donald Newman (. Newman) visited him and said, “Donald, if I don’t become normal, they won’t let me out. But, I’ve never been normal...”

The second time was Trenton Mental Hospital. During the interview, John and the interviewer revisited their old places. John just stood on the lawn of the hospital, looking from a distance, but refused to get closer. "They give you injections to make you look like an animal, so that they treat you like an animal." Here, he was forced to undergo the insulin coma treatment that has now been discontinued by the Western medical community: after a large amount of insulin injection, Let the patient fall into a coma, even when the patient is awake, it is like a walking dead. John started to eat only vegetarian food as a protest against the hospital's treatment-of course, no one took this seriously. After a long period of insulin coma treatment, he finally became "normal". He has never been so humble and polite in his life. Donald’s wife recalled, “He looked as good as he had just been beaten.”

Half a year later, the humble and polite John was finally discharged from Trenton Hospital. He staggered out of the hospital. The first thing he did was to find his childhood friends. The memory is erased."

This made Hugo start thinking: If returning to reason only means taming the social system, social framework, and social standards, it means loss of memory, loss of personality, and loss of emotions, then is healing really valuable? Especially for a genius like John who regards mathematics as "the only important thing".

The purest mathematics in John's mind is not reason, not numbers, but inspiration. Reason is just a means of communicating this kind of inspiration, and if regaining reason also means the loss of inspiration, then he would rather give up reason. A friend visited him when he was hospitalized, "When you were mad, you claimed that aliens were talking to you, but how could a rational mathematician like you believe in nonsense about aliens?"

John replied, "The originality of mathematics enters my mind like aliens. I believe in the existence of aliens, just as I believe in mathematics." He wrote in Notebook Hill, "The four elements of reason block humans from The closeness of the universe."

From this perspective, John is indeed a lunatic—the same lunatic as countless geniuses who have created miracles in history.

After coming out of Trenton Hospital, John refused to accept any medication because the treatment made him feel dull and unable to think about mathematics. He got a spare job as a researcher at Princeton University. As a result, Princeton University students can often see a middle-aged man in red running shoes wandering around the campus like a walking dead, writing illogical formulas on the entire blackboard, holding hundreds of mathematical formulas just calculated the night before. Appeared in a professor's office. The students gave him a nickname, "the ghost of mathematics building", but few people know who this ghost is.

After entering the seventies, John's relatives and friends began to notice that he was not going crazy. John's eyes became clear, and his behavior became logical. But in the absence of medical treatment, how did John recover? John thinks, "As long as I want to go retrograde martial arts. One day, I start to want to become rational." From that day on, he and his auditory voices began to debate, refute those voices, "to distinguish irrationality with reason, and to distinguish with common sense. illusion."

This is a very interesting case. Although Hugo has limited knowledge of psychology, in John's case, madness and reason seem to have become a free will choice. So Hugo no longer even believed that he was really mad, but... rationally chose madness, and madly returned to rationality. Or to be more precise, before the 1970s, he madly applied all rationality to mathematics, which caused life to lose control; and after entering the 1970s, he consciously chose to apply part of his madness to mathematics. On top of mathematics inspiration, the remaining madness is imprisoned by reason.

This idea is too bold and too crazy. Even if Hugo has not studied psychology, he knows that the possibility is very slim. However, thinking carefully about the origin of John's madness, it seems that it is not so unfounded.

John has been an eccentric, arrogant and introverted person since ancient times. His grades in elementary school were not good-including mathematics, and he was even considered by the teacher to be a student whose academic performance was lower than that of an intelligence test. For example, in mathematics, he was unconventional. His problem-solving method was criticized by the teacher, but John's mother was full of confidence in his son. Later facts also proved that this alternative approach is precisely the embodiment of his mathematics talent. It's not just mathematical geniuses, most geniuses are like this, there is nothing surprising about this.

But how can a person with an inherently weird personality be considered suddenly crazy? The reason is because in the late 1950s, when John was thirty years old, he suddenly claimed to be together. Produce. The activists and the anti. common. The activists are a group, they are all "conspirators"; he declared that Eisenhower and the Pope of the Vatican had no sympathy for him; the turmoil in the Middle East made him deeply disturbed, and he called his relatives and friends anonymously, saying that the end of the world had come.

Under such circumstances, John was sent to a mental hospital for the first time. Later, when he left Macleans Hospital, he resigned from MIT, withdrew all his pension, and announced that he was going to travel to Europe. In July 1959, John arrived in Paris. He saw the entire city full of demonstrations, strikes, and explosions protesting the nuclear arms race. He went to the local government several times for help, hoping to renounce his American citizenship; he even went to Geneva because of this The city is known for being friendly to refugees. He declared to the Swiss that “the American system is fundamentally wrong”, but no one believed him. In the end, he was sent to the plane to return. Afterwards, he claimed that he was sent to a ship, chained like a slave.

Before being deported, John wandered in Europe for nine months. The noise and commotion under the Cold War consciousness were everywhere like Paris. The shadow of NATO and the Warsaw Pact lingered back and forth over the European continent. These nine months were extremely metaphorical. Wandering is reminiscent of the wandering heroes in the fictional world: Margaret Duras (. duras) is a female beggar who never forgets the Ganges, and James Joyce (james.) takes a day to travel. Mr. Bloom of Dublin, Odysseus who spent ten years sings homer, and Don Quixote who traveled the world with Cervantes Savidra...

This brings Hugo back to his college days. The characters in classical literature and John began to overlap bit by bit: They wandered endlessly in an attempt to achieve a certain spiritual goal.

The crazy scenes that John witnessed in Europe made Hugo unable to help but wonder: how a schizophrenic patient who has just left a mental hospital ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ can face a real world that is crazier than the mental hospital. It's like McMurphy who is eager to go out in "Flying Over the Cuckoo's Asylum", like Truman who struggles out of the cocoon in "Trumen's World", and like 1900 who can never go out in "Sea Pianist".

The real world has always advertised itself as "normal" and "rational", but the continuous war on the European continent has made the mental hospital look like a paradise.

Does the cruel and **** reality make human beings more rational or crazier? People always stand on the commanding heights of morality and declare that "you are a lunatic" to certain people, but in fact, the boundary between madness and reason has become a manifestation of social power: those who deviate from the so-called mainstream social track are lunatics; while following the rules, It's normal to keep one's own feet. This is "Trumen's World", "American Beauty", and even John Nash's life.

When people can’t wait to pronounce John a lunatic, it’s not because of the persecution of minority groups by mainstream society. Of course, perhaps John’s mysterious illusions and nonsense are timid and terrifying, but after the Iron Curtain of the Cold War fell, people found that John’s "crazy remarks" were more like prophecies, and people were more like prophecies. The unknown and the fear of uncertainty have labeled John a "lunatic".