[Avery Andrews 931013.0600]
This is a fairly ignorant speculation, but here goes anyway: reading the
article on mood disorders in the recent Scientific American issue on the
brain caused me to wonder what `mania' and `depression' were for, and
it occured to me that perhaps they are exaggerated and inappropriate
states of the reorganization system, mania being reorganization at the
program level (swirling plans, impulsive decisions), depression at
a higher (principle?) level. e.g. you can't do anything because you
don't know what anything's for, do you.
Which of course leads to the question of why we seem to have only two mood
disorders instead of eleven (one for each level).
Avery.Andrews@anu.edu.au