Case report. Self-induced grand mal epilepsy.

An Action Theoretic Problem for Intralevel Mental Causation

“…20 20 This example is based on a case report (see Pearson 1992; for more on visual‐sensitive epilepsy, see Bittencourt 2004, and Seshia and Carmant 2005). A fairly recent high‐profile case of visual‐sensitive seizures was the 1997 occurrence of some children in Japan experiencing convulsive seizures (and other non‐convulsive symptoms associated with epilepsy) as a result of watching an episode of the Pokémon cartoon (see Bittencourt 2004).…”