IB Class: Economics
In our Economics class, we learnt about Game Theory and Mr. Isley showed us a movie about the creator of Game Theory, John Nash. "A Beautiful Mind" must have been one of the most touching movies I have ever watched. John Nash was a brilliant mathematician. He wrote a paper about Game Theory and became famous. He also had a beautiful wife. Unfortunately, John Nash started to have hallucinations and he was diagnosed to have schizophrenia. Then, he had to have medicine to stop the hallucinations but the medication prevented him to have a clear mind to perform mathematics. Finally, he succeeded in convincing himself of which was the reality and which was just his imagination.
Very few people are able to do what John Nash has done - to know which was the reality and which was not. I've also heard stories about people secretly stopping their medication and then their hallucinations came back. What are their intentions? Maybe because they hated the effect of the medications, that they cannot really think consciously, but at the same time, I feel sorry for those who live within their hallucinations. This reminds me of the movie "Inception" as the main character kept wanting to go back into his dream to live with his wife. I think that living in hallucinations and dreams are mentally unhealthy and they should be aware that there are people who care about them are waiting for them in the real world. The reality has what you really have whilst the hallucinations or dreams have what you think you have, but what you really don't have.
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