>>11327024You don't lose this mechanism, it just doesn't work as it's supposed to. Schizophrenics do make connections and see patterns, but they are the incorrect ones. Like ascribing special meaning to their birth date because it's the same day and month some other person was born on. It is a kind of pattern, but healthy people understand that it doesn't mean anything.
http://www.bandycituska.com/This is a link to a website of a Polish schizophrenic computer engineer who is rich for some reason. If you know Polish or translate it you will see that he makes all sort of strange connections. They are nonsense, of course, but for him they are very real.
