> A big part of it, is seeing “connections,” in everything.

I've lately been wondering if schizophrenia causes this connection-seeing, or if connections cause indicators of schizophrenia/psychosis.

I've lived in cities like New Orleans, where everything seems magically connected through something about the culture and relationship structure imho, which results in intense feelings of synchronicity. There seems to be a high proportion of schizophrenia and general mania in New Orleans.

And now LLMs (which are always making and reinforcing connections, right or wrong) lead me to wonder about this direction of causality once more...