Note: this chat uses “proxies” AI models that have built from the visible, documented work of specific persons. It does not imitate their speech patterns, personality, or personal identity. Instead, it reconstructs the pattern of how they think – the distinctions they draw, the questions they ask, the frameworks they use, the metaphors they favor, […]
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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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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 very interesting reframings 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 After loading the main dAilogue primer I uploaded the Silvan Tomkins and Edward Calabrese primer extensions and instructed ChatGpt to
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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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Continued from Part 1… Edward Calabrese: I am quite interested and encouraged with our intellectual convergence. I think it might be very worthwhile trying to integrate our perspectives into Paper that might be of some conceptual general significance….having broad appeal. Let know what you think. My Response: There does seem to be a powerful alignment opportunity
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In response to Dr. Rick Lippin sharing some of my work on capital-abuse with his group of doctors, Edward Calabrese, a medical science thought-leader wrote: I have been very focused on other forms of achievement and its attendant corruption that affects society. The corruption has been led by the very people we have viewed as
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