acute apophenia
Apophenia is "the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things" According to a 2008 study, it has "been implicated in vulnerability to schizophrenia." https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apophenia http://www.academicpedsjnl.net/article/S0010-9452(08)00139-1/abstract
She remembers a story her grandmother once told her about Indra's Web, the ultimate cosmic network in which every node mirrors the whole ...
I think it is sad that this story of hopeful science is overshadowed by the story of her grandmother on life support at the hospital.
She sends a hint to the team at Suntower 1. By the morning they will have figured it out. She sips her tea, talks to the sleepy attendant.
I think it is funny how she recognized the issue very quickly and, rather than telling her team about it, she sends them a hint so they can figure it out themselves. It reminds me of instructors who ask you a question to help lead you to the right answer instead of answering your original question.
Becoming sensitive to networks and relationships, she saw connections everywhere, even when they weren't actually present. This drove her crazy but she didn't want to take medicines to suppress her ability for pattern recognition.
This sort of reminds me of the movie Beautiful Mind. Someone who is very intelligent, yet they struggle to divide what is real and what is not.
When she was a child Mahua used to follow ants as they moved purposefully across the dirt floor of the room. She wanted to know where they were going in such a hurry, and whether their abrupt pauses and frantically waving antennae had some hidden significance.
I think it is always interesting to read about how people find hidden patterns in everyday life, like Mahua did with ants; it often indicates they have strong minds for math and science.
They were the first words Mary Shelley (1797-1851) committed to paper after a troubled night of waking. nightmares that inspired the plot for her extraordinary novel, Frankenstein.
I did not know that her inspiration for this novel came from a nightmare!