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good photographer though
good photographer though
The PACE trial [pro]: It’s time to broaden perceptions and move on. Keith Petrie, John Weinman
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Neural plasticity is deeply connected to chemical signals. So are other factors in the brain. The brain is the top of the neurological info processing, but it connects to metabolic, hormonal and immunological systems, and its two way communication. I think of it as the primary command and control system, but is connected by communication from all the others.
What training such as classical CBT does is strictly limited by all the parts of the command control and communications systems, and what they do.
What training such as classical CBT does is strictly limited by all the parts of the command control and communications systems, and what they do.
The brain is capable of being modified (trained, adapted) through sensory input, or the lack of it, all which is very physical. This is perfectly compatible with monism. I'm not convinced that something ethereal termed "the mind" can modify the brain in any way. I think consciousness is much more of an epiphenomenon. What you see on the monitor is not the program running.
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Given that counterintuitive means "contrary to common-sense expectation", does anyone know what "counterintuitive to the common sense model" means? Contrary to the common-sense expectation of the common-sense model? What is the common-sense expectation of common-sense? If one were foolish enough to disagree with the learned authors, would that be contrary to the common-sense expectation of the common sense model of CFS, or just common-sense?
That is well within the monist framework. The issues arise because of how dualists choose to interpret brain training.
Yes I was just following through on the analogy that I don't think works because the brain isn't like an CPU. My comments would probably be lost on most as well since not many people understand the inner workings of the processor security model.
Why of course it exists. The diagnostic category I mean. Its just made up, as in there is no proof any of it relates to the real world. Once its defined and enshrined in something, like DSM, many will defend it by pointing to the DSM. DSM 5 or any of them is just a catalogue of presumed diagnostic categories. One by one they are being removed, but that is OK, they keep inventing new ones.
In case there is any doubt, my comments here are a little sarcastic. Psychiatry has to have its codes, its not serious unless there are diagnostic codes, and they wont get paid. The fact that many psychiatrists are aware of this, and have public admitted to using whatever codes fit for pragmatic reasons, goes to show just how relevant the DSM should be considered.
In case there is any doubt, my comments here are a little sarcastic. Psychiatry has to have its codes, its not serious unless there are diagnostic codes, and they wont get paid. The fact that many psychiatrists are aware of this, and have public admitted to using whatever codes fit for pragmatic reasons, goes to show just how relevant the DSM should be considered.
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Yes, but we are fooled by it so I am not sure I would call it an illusion. Some of what we claim about the mind is probably illusory though, the rest is a category mistake in my view. A category mistake is when something is defined as one thing, but is actually another, so any inferences you make based upon the wrong category can be a mistake.
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I've come to the conclusion that to even talk about mind is misleading.
It implies selfhood, which is false.
'I' does not exist as anything outside the integrated behaviour of the brain/body/environment system, and the delusion of selfhood misleads any thoughts as to the nature of cognition.
This is perhaps not very on topic
It implies selfhood, which is false.
'I' does not exist as anything outside the integrated behaviour of the brain/body/environment system, and the delusion of selfhood misleads any thoughts as to the nature of cognition.
This is perhaps not very on topic
speechless.
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At one point a GP accused me of not taking my levothyroxine and of deliberately trying to make myself more ill. I walked into his office and he started shouting and threw the thyroid function test results at me. They were way off and he said there was no way I had been taking thyroxine. There had been a recent death in my close family and I had had to travel and I was struggling to come to terms with having ME but, I was sure I had remembered to take the meds.
I was stunned. I had been taking my meds...I was sure I had....I was really upset.
The following day I had an appointment with an endocrinologist. I told him what had happened and gave him the results. He spotted the problem immediately. They weren't my test results.
I have had so many errors in my notes over the years and I believe that adding in apps etc will just propagate errors and cause more problems that could be resolved by having the time and inclination to communicate with the patient, adult to adult.
I was stunned. I had been taking my meds...I was sure I had....I was really upset.
The following day I had an appointment with an endocrinologist. I told him what had happened and gave him the results. He spotted the problem immediately. They weren't my test results.
I have had so many errors in my notes over the years and I believe that adding in apps etc will just propagate errors and cause more problems that could be resolved by having the time and inclination to communicate with the patient, adult to adult.
Should that not be reported to the Journal in question?