Even more bizarre was that some predictions became true. For example, Maggie asked a man who claimed responsibility for two plane crashes to cause an extra disaster for her. He said he would do it in a harmless way, and two days later, an empty plane burst into flames in Las Vegas. Maggie asked John: “If there can be epistemological solutions to real problems, as in schizophrenia, then why can’t they be ontological solutions to epistemological problems as these people described? After all, what we observe in reality are only chains of events, not connections between them. These connections always take place in our heads, as David Hume or some other philosopher demonstrated. The whole point is to argue them well.”
John did not know how to respond. Although he did not regard himself as a st
