The notion of common sense occurs in most, if not all, cultures. Less well known and poorly understood are disorders of common sense. The term aberrant common sense is used as a catchall term for all disorders in common sense. Curiously, there are no references to common sense or its disorders in any known clinical textbook or diagnostic manual, despite most persons knowing at least one person who lacks common sense and whose chaotic behaviors are costly. This report focuses on economic issues associated with chaos and aberrant common sense. Its subtitle could be “On the economics of stupidity” because of thoughtless and self-centered behaviors in aberrant common sense. Specifically, we consider economic aspects of chaos and aberrant common sense in:
• personal lives (e.g., associated with psychoviruses, trauma, addictions, failed relationships, sociopathy, insurance, clinical costs and opportunities, medications providing symptomatic relief, etc.);
• nationally (e.g., politics, election laws and procedures, associated with poor leadership and leaders with aberrant common sense, crime, civil strife and riots, war, catastrophes, national caveats emptor, etc.);
• globally (e.g., global warming, inequities between those who have and those who do not have, displacements and diasporas, human rights, divergences in common sense, etc.); and,
• aberrant ‘scientific common sense’ (e.g., poor experimental designs; failures in vaccine trials; confusion regarding causality, correlations and associations, consequences, and irrelevancies; not knowing when or how to stop; ethical lapses; open and anonymous peer review; mistakes and misunderstandings; internecine behaviors, etc.).
In addition, insofar as conditional and Bayesian probabilities may represent subconscious dynamic and fluid boundary conditions on reality, we examine beneficial and detrimental (economic) implications for chaos, health, wellness and sanity.


Here is a link to a paper preparatory for my presentation:
http://www.blueberry-brain.org/winterchaos/RoulettiInChina.htm