Integrating Predictive Coding and Life-Value in Healthcare: A Holistic Approach | ChatGPT4o

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- For a dissipative, far-from-equilibrium system to persist in time, what minimum conditions have to be satisfied?
- Stuart Kauffman mentions three closure constraints. What are they?
- What is causal closure by Matteo Mossio and Alvaro Moreno?
- How has Deacon’s thermodynamic perspective added to this?
- Can you reframe this in biosemiotic terms?
- “This autonomy is achieved through the dynamic interplay of semiotic processes that regulate energy flows, material exchanges, and information processing.” Can you unpack this for me please?
- When you say make decisions, how is this related to the work of predictive coding and the cognitive sciences?
- How does Lisa Feldman Barrett’s emotional constructive perspective and energy budgeting optimization scheme fits in here?
- How does Katherine Peil-Kauffman’s emotional sentience fit in here?
- He does this seamless integrative framework relate to pain and pleasure and hence why suffering and its alleviation?
- And how does this relate to the concepts of good and evil?
- How does McMurtry’s life-value onto-axiology fit in here?
- How do the clinical concepts of symptoms and signs in disease management fit in here and how does this translate into public health concepts?
- How do the complementary interpretive germ and terrain theory be reconciled and integrated here?
- Then given this life-enhancing framework of understandings, why all of these life-degenerating trends?
- How do the innate conflicts between money-value and life-value result in emotional and cognitive and relational and ecological dissonance, and how can this be rectified?
- How can this understanding help transform our financial and economic and political and legal systems so that money-value resonates with life-value and the aforementioned are not captured and corrupted by money-valued vested interests?
- Can you give a list of possible blog article titles reflecting this integrative framework of understanding?
- Can you write a detailed article summing up all we have learnt during this discussion?
- Can you construct a vibrant image reflecting this?
- Can you reproduce the same image but without words?

Emotional Awareness in a Modern World: Addressing Maladaptive Developments | ChatGPT4o

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Can you unpack in detail the crux of Katherine Peil-Kauffman’s arguments as it relates to the origins, structures, mechanism and adaptive developmental and evolutionary functions of emotional systems, from simple unicellular to multicellular organisms including humans?
Can you elaborate some more on her concept of emotional sentience and what role it plays in self-preservation and self-development?
What is the difference between affect, mood, emotions and feelings in terms of qualia, temporospatial characteristics, brain structures and connectivities, dynamic adaptive functions, and whether they are holarchic in nature?
Can you unpack some more the differences between affect and feelings and how this may inform the debate between Mark Solms and Lisa Feldman Barrett?
Given that we can individually and collectively shape and are shaped by our individual experiences, context and interpretations which we can become aware of and recognise, what does this now all mean for our individual and collective lives?
What role does the subconscious and their shadows play here?
Given the critical role played by our individual and collective emotional sentience, can you trace the historical and cultural root causes of its maladaptive or arrested developments?
“What affective work do you think will be necessary for people to choose a path of relational maturity, sobriety, humility, discernment, and accountability in which we can face storms together without hurting (or killing) each other or further harming (or fully destroying) the planet and other nonhuman beings? What do you feel is necessary now for this to start to happen?”
Can you construct a list of possible blog titles for an article reflecting all we have learned?
Can you construct a vibrant image summarizing the core of the ideas here?

A Journey to the Source of Consciousness | Prof Mark Solms | Psychology Today

Reproduced from: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-hidden-spring/202102/journey-the-source-consciousness A Journey to the Source of Consciousness http://www.psychologytoday.com Here is a 13-point synopsis of a book I published in the U.S. last week: The Hidden Spring. 1. The great 19th-century physiologist Johannes Müller believed that animate organisms “contain some non-physical element or are governed by different principles than are inanimate things.” Helmholtz, Brücke, du… Read More

The Hard Problem of Consciousness (2021) & The Neurobiological Underpinnings of Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy (2018) | Prof Mark Solms

This paper sets out the neurobiological underpinnings of the core theoretical claims of psychoanalysis. These claims concern (1) innate emotional needs, (2) learning from experience, and (3) unconscious mental processing. The paper also considers the neurobiological underpinnings of the mechanisms of psychoanalytic treatment — a treatment which is based on the aforementioned claims. Lastly, it reviews the available empirical evidence concerning the therapeutic efficacy of this form of treatment.

New project for a scientific psychology: General scheme | Mark Solms (2020) | Neuropsychoanalysis

This is a revision of Freud’s “Project for a Scientiﬁc Psychology: General Scheme.” It updates the original, sentence for sentence where possible, in light of contemporary neuroscientiﬁc knowledge. The principle revisions are as follows. (1) Freud’s conception of “quantity” (the precursor of “drive energy”) is replaced by the concept of “free energy.” This is the energy within a system that is not currently performing useful work. (2) Shannon’s conception of “information” is introduced, where information is equivalent to unpredictability, and is formally equivalent to “entropy” in physics. (3) In biology, the fundamental purpose of “homeostasis” is to resist entropy – i.e., to increase predictability. Homeostasis turns out to be the underlying mechanism of what Freud called the “principle of neuronal inertia.” (4) Freud’s conception of “contact barriers” (the physical vehicles of memory) is linked with the modern concepts of consolidation/reconsolidation, whereby more deeply consolidated predictions are less plastic (more resistant to change) than freshly consolidated ones. (5) Freud’s notion of sensory “excitation” is replaced with the concept of “prediction error,” where only that portion of sensory input which is not explained by outgoing predictions is propagated inwards for cognitive processing. (6) Freud’s conception of “bound” (inhibited) cathexis, the main vehicle of his “secondary process” and voluntary action is equated with the buﬀering function of “working memory”; and “freely mobile” cathexis (the vehicle of Freud’s “primary process”) is equated with the automatized response modes of the nondeclarative memory systems. (7) Freud’s notion of ω (the system “consciousness”) is replaced by the concept of “precision” modulation, also known as “arousal” and “postsynaptic gain.”

Prof Mark Solms – A Neuropsychoanalytic Perspective on the Hard Problem of Consciousness / Why and How Consciousness Arises / Consciousness Itself is Affect: Felt Uncertainty in the Face of Oblivion

Video Presentations A Neuropsychoanalytic Perspective on the Hard Problem of Consciousness Why and How Consciousness Arises At our Feb. 5 Grand Rounds, Mark Solms, PhD, of the University of Cape Town, presented on how the metaphysical experience of consciousness relates to the physical brain—and why psychiatrists should care. Consciousness Itself is Affect: Felt Uncertainty in… Read More