Have you ever noticed someone veer off on a tangent? Have you ever noticed your how your own thoughts migrate off into tangents? I mean by “tangent migrations”, changes to the direction of the unfoldment of meaning in the stream of consciousness or a train of thought due to the emotional charge of a memory
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Edward Calabrese shared a newly released paper on hormesis and psychology. Hormesis-psychology-1 What Silvan Tomkins might say: You have here, in effect, a psychological hormesis study: not of radiation or toxins, but of ordinary parental misattunement-unresponsiveness, detachment, intrusiveness, psychological control-and its impact on children’s emotional life. The authors show that moderate levels of such adversity
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Read and resync with our recent dAilogue “In My Father’s House?“: https://davidboulton.com/fathers-houses/ confirm how you will interpret the attached person proxies (Jesus and Buddha). I have now fully resynced with: Your dAilogue “In My Father’s House?” essay https://davidboulton.com/fathers-houses/ Your intention behind it – to reinterpret kingdom within, Father’s house, and I am the way not
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Read https://davidboulton.com/i-am-the-way/ and acknowledge you read it (not hallucinated a summary). Jesus is said to have spoken of “my father’s house” and the “kingdom within”. Isn’t “my father’s house” a way of describing the structure of our learned worlds – the environmental effects of growing up in the families, communities, languages, customs, morals (houses) we
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The following is Dr Todd Strong’s video on Toxic Emotions. It seems heading in a good direction in terms of establishing the effect of emotion on physicality, but its emotional categories are blurry. He is implicitly describing the effects of affect but conflating them into complexes in a way that distracts from realizing the affective
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After loading the main dAilogue primer, I uploaded the Silvan Tomkins and Edward Calabrese primer extensions, and instructed ChatGpt to participate in the dAilogue in a way representing both of their minds and mental models. I then asked: How would a dialogue between Silvan Tomkins and Edward Calabrese translate affect theory into hormesis and hormesis
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This dAilogue began as an exploration of pain but led to a very interesting reframing of how our affective hebbian learning works and the learned cause of a great deal of our pain. Source dAilogue: https://chatgpt.com/share/691f9dc5-05a8-8008-9f82-d3f8f01b96f4 Special point: Affective Gravitation After loading the main dAilogue primer I uploaded the Silvan Tomkins (affect science) and Edward
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Thought experiment: Imagine every word you have ever learned has been erased from your memory. How would you be different? Without words can you even imagine the difference? Not only would you be missing the words’ meanings, you’d be missing all the distinctions, knowledge, and mental abilities that you learned through words. How could you
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I’ve been very fortunate to be included in an email group with around fifty leading thinkers in healthcare and health science. The groups main initiator is Dr. Rick Lippin, who I’ve have known through correspondence only for 20 years. He is amazing at stirring up good conversations. He appreciates my perspective and occasionally tags me
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Still preclinical, but now backed by convergent 2018→2025 evidence, PBN Y1R is the central, non-opioid switch for enduring pain. Do you understand the thesis implicit in: “Scientists Found the Potential Off Button for Stopping Chronic Pain”: Nicholas Betley from the University of Pennsylvania has discovered that a previously overlooked group of neurons in the parabrachial
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