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Re:Schizophrenic Computer Points to New Theory of Disease by pierreminik on Sunday August 14, 2011 @08:56PM (#2884970)
Not sure I got the "mixing up identities" comment part right but just wanted to point out schizophrenia has nothing to do with multiple personality disorders.
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Re:Schizophrenic Computer Points to New Theory of Disease by 6ren on Sunday August 14, 2011 @09:09PM (#2885005)
9th para:

  DISCERN was just as eager to adopt the life of a crime boss named Vito
  or to thrust its assigned identity onto another character.
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Re:Schizophrenic Computer Points to New Theory of Disease by pierreminik on Sunday August 14, 2011 @09:20PM (#2885038)
Oh, right.

Reading that at first I thought the writer had completely mixed up schizophrenia and multiple personality disorders. Something that is not uncommon at all in the media and pop culture.

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