Δ. making sense - recursive

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Mimicking the patterns they can see, children copy what seems to work, building a stability, piece by piece, the ego behind their perceptions.

perception and expression

Everyday beliefs, about psychology, education, and medicine discount that we have evolved, exist, and develop as parts of societies, and that well-being therefore coextends with fluency.

1. Reality.

1.1. A being is a noumenon of embodied cognition; it perceives the world it comes to know by recognizing those pieces of data that its senses are able to gather because they have proved to be significant. It cannot see past them. 1.2. reality is like the floor of a cave in the darkness, felt as the head of a walking stick pressing against the palm of our hand. It is real even though our experience of it can only ever be a perception. 1.3. For us, reality is simply what to us makes sense. It never is and can never be quite as we perceive.

Through sensing reality our brains build models and these enact our minds.

2. Connection.

2.1. To survive, beings must interact not just with inanimate entities but with other beings. As they then found advantage in these social connections, in the primordial environment elementary societies formed. 2.2. From elementary communication, languages developed, continuing and reflecting the preconceptions that beings inherit and framing their current perception —right or wrong, good or bad, mad or not. 2.3, Over generations simple relationships became increasingly complex. Various forms of interdependence evolved, between protists, viruses and bacteria, to become multi-cellular, modular, and symbiotic beings.

Evolving as societies both inside and out, like language and culture twisted together we're meaningless broken apart.

3. Imprinting > COMMUNICATION.

7.1. First we cry; and then we suckle. Communicating effectively is vital if we are to successfully integrate with our surrounding society and obtain its protection and support. 7.2. Infants are instinctively aware that being shunned can be a death sentence; children relentlessly demand conversation. Any fear they might have is readily overwhelmed by their drive to communicate.

My psyche, not my ego, expresses a gestalt, and broadcasts who I am.

4. Expectation.

1.2. Born expecting their world to make sense, children see only foundations around them. They build on these regardless, imagining viability to be that which seems to them to work. 1.3. Children learn as best they can; their understanding of the information on which they depend to do so developed as well as limited by their experience. 6.1. We learn about reality from the stream of data that it stimulates in our senses. 6.2. Inside the womb, as sensory data is filtered and translated into functional information, our unique personal culture begins to develop from that of our mother.

Light gathered in cells flashes to brains adding senses into memory to recognize what we know: an environment of patterns and signs.

5. Involvement > IMPRINTING.

6.3. culture trains our development like a trellis trains a vine. Moment by moment our experience blindly meshes in layers, crystallizing around a genetic algorithm. 6.4. We incorporate understanding, privation, and error equally and impartially into ourselves, absorbing the world that we come to know. 7.3. Patterns of expression, imprinted on us during early ontogeny, frame the conversations through which we negotiate meaning and develop into who we are. Interposed between us they establish our interpersonal relationships in later life.

Our awareness builds its psyche blindly, judging sensations by prior results, crystallizing in layers around our needs.

6. Culture.

4.1. culture frames our experience of the world; it is a meta-language, circumscribing both our understanding of language and of culture. 4.2. As we develop, the cultures of our 'family', 'community', 'region', and 'state', which surround us in our ontogeny, nest inside us like Russian dolls, building a unique personal culture. 4.3. Each of us expresses our personal culture constantly and unavoidably, non-verbally even more than verbally; it is what gives meaning to who we are and to what we do.

A birthright and our blinkers, our culture builds a sense of home, defending our rights from what's wrong.

7. Meaning.

5.1. Imprinting our environment with constructions and artifacts, cultures also pattern our perception. 5.2. Through the paradigm culture provides, we are able to anticipate and interpret the responses we receive from the world around us. By balancing their candor with their kindness we are able to find and maintain our place its society. 5.3. In a foreign culture, when uprooted, categories evaporate that to us seemed certain. Discovering our perception is not absolute and universal, we become dumb, 'home-sick' for the authentic connection we feel in the well-established constructs of familiar company.

Uprooted perceptions are skewed, reframed, context is lost and expression mistaken.

8. Fluency.

8.1. Every being's survival depends upon it making sense of both its internal and external environments. 8.2. The conversation between a being's internal and external worlds determines its biological and psychological well-being. 8.3. If the soul is ineffable and the psyche is understood as a meta-biological construct, then our fluency is a reflection of the impact of our experience, and of any interventions that are made in our lives.

From the beginning, the environments that determine which beings survive have been social as well as material. Communicative competence is fundamental, affording sustenance, protection, and the empowerment of social integration. Well-being then coextends with fluency.

Our lives are rivers not rocks, their fluency carves our course.

^{θ incorporation} ^{ψ on being heard}

from D-MakingSense.php#D_intro.

The shouts of children racing from class to playground tumble happily into chaos like fireworks at carnival: "Crazy! Let's do it!" "Wicked!" "You're mental!" Children follow instinct to choose leaders; to them our history seems like a comic strip. And yet, while they're occupied with new experience their schooling absorbs them, their growth developing framed by the environments it represents.

from D-MakingSense.php#D5.1.

shaping cultures

On the night of 10th May, 1941, with one of the last bombs of the last serious raid, our House of Commons was destroyed by the violence of the enemy, and we have now to consider whether we should build it up again, and how, and when. We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us. Winston Churchill, UK Prime Minister.

From Churchill's speech in the UK House of Commons debate on 28 October 1943. Full minutes of the debate are recorded in Hansard, vol 393 cc403-73

from D-MakingSense.php#D8.3.

interventions

There is art to medicine as well as science, and warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or chemist's drug.

In whatever way health conditions are expressed, their physical consequences and need for empathy intrinsically impact on the wellbeing of everyone associated with them. All healthcare interventions, whether made actively, through surgery, chemical or physical therapies, psychotherapy, or social support; by simply engaging with a healthcare provider; or when interventions are made by one party and the discussions regarding these are had with another, necessarily engage all involved in profound cognitive interaction and communication.

"To my patients, who have paid to teach me."

D.W Winicott (1896-1971, Chairman of the British Psychological Association, President of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, and President of the Paediatric Section of the Royal Society of Medicine; from his dedication to his book: Playing and Reality, 1971.

a complete aetiology

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called from D-MakingSense.php#D8.3 .

Hippocratic Oath

Written between the fifth and third centuries BC, the Hippocratic Oath is an expression of medical ethics, attributed to the Greek doctor Hippocrates. Its third undertaking, quoted here, is from a version of it by Louis Lasagna written in 1964. His version of it is that which is most common today.

The Hippocratic oath is the earliest expression of medical ethics in the Western world, establishing several principles which remain of paramount significance today. These include the principles of medical confidentiality and of doing no harm. As the seminal articulation of certain principles that continue to guide and inform medical practice, the ancient text is of more than historic and symbolic value. It is enshrined in the legal statutes of various jurisdictions, such that violations of the oath may carry criminal or other liability beyond the oath's symbolic nature.

Wikipedia, retvd. 27/9'23.

biophysicality

If it is accepted that descriptions of the ineffable are unavoidably metaphorical, and creationist, and anthropocentric teleologies and their concepts of the soul are set aside, then BEINGS can be defined simply as 'vehicles' of life and LIFE inferred recursively.

Rather than being merely 'wet' physical entities, BEINGS are BIOPHYSICAL, organized and animated by the interpretations that their BIOSEMIOTIC systems render of their internal and external environments.

To choose actions that ensure its survival, every BIOPHYSICAL construct requires a psychological correlate, and in order to exist every psychological construct requires a BIOPHYSICAL correlate. In actuality, psychology refers to METABIOPHYSICAL systems.

Those attributes of BIOSEMIOTIC systems, which in humans are referred to as awareness, consciousness, EGO and mind, are PERCEPTIONS, generated from the information that the SENSES of a BEING provide of NOUMENA that it encounters — in the same way as the PERCEPTION of colour is.

wellness

In an individual, the development of wellness and illness, is a function of the interaction of their BIOPHYSICAL actuality with their environment. This system then is impacted as a whole by any medical or psychological interventions and any social support and care they receive or are privated of.

Research into cancer and other diseases has identified the existence and primacy of METABIOPHYSICAL systems and the need to address them as a whole; however, despite the work of the WHO, modern societies and their BROADCASTING systems appear obdurate, discounting 'holism' and increasingly promoting reductionist models.

MEANING, is that which a BEING PERCEIVES of an EXPRESSION. It is inherited, encoded and developed through the reference-frame of the individual's ONTOGENY. Different reference-frames then inevitably arise.

Those BEINGS less able to recognize and reconcile differing reference-frames are at greater risk in social groups of being misinformed and deceived.

Whether or not there is free-will, we choose whenever we can.

Ultimately, short term success is an insufficient guide for future action. Locusts are successful but find themselves unable to escape developing from their peaceful co-existance as individuals into the cannibalistic wars of their swarms.

virtuality refers to abstractions of actuality that pre-process experience.

We recognize what we see; this is our perception, inherited and learnt from experience.

Seeing what we expect to see we then construct and integrate accordingly the data that our eyes and other senses are capable of registering.

The term BEINGS, applies here to all forms of LIFE, whether multicellular (humans, ants, plants, etc.); unicellular (bacteria, archaea, algae, etc.); or the MODULAR societies of slime molds, jellyfish, ants, humans, deer, etc.

Bioemiosis proceeds through recognition — through current sense-data that a being perceives then being recognized by it as being the same as, or belonging to the same class as, something the being has sensed or perceived before. This then is a recursive process, its first iteration (or 'base case') generating meaning by matching current sense-data and perceptions to those that have previously been recognized, recorded, embodied, and inherited.

Here embodiment refers both to the biophysical expression of semiosis and to the semiosis that biophysical expression represents. EMBODIED COGNITION is then simply a description of biosemiosis.

NB. The definitions used here may vary considerably, both in degree and specificity, to those used elsewhere; nonetheless, they also overlap with them considerably.

A metatransition is a metasystem transition to EITHER a more complex OR a simpler structure, ultimately leading to a transitory OR a permanent evolutionary transition in individuality.

NB. The labels, 'more complex', 'simpler', 'transitory' and 'permanent', here refer to relative positions on subjectively defined axis, not to any objective measure.

Here, metasystem refers to a general, rather than restricted, controlling or organizational system which maintains the homeostasis necessary for the functioning of a system and its subsystems.

Please see: here for a summary and references.

functioning, disability and health

First drafted by the WHO in 1980, the International Classification of Functioning (the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health), is an holistic overview of wellness and illness. Despite its publication, and the fact that today biopsychosocial models are taught in medical schools, the significance and impact on social organization and its institutions of these models might appear to citizens to have been relatively minimal — perhaps because of the powerful lobbies that work to promote a fundamentalist belief in scientific reductionism.

After nine years of international revision efforts coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Health Assembly on May 22, 2001, approved the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health and its abbreviation of "ICF." This classification was first created in 1980 ... by WHO to provide a unifying framework for classifying the consequences of disease. ... Functioning and disability are viewed as a complex interaction between the health condition of the individual and the contextual factors of the environment as well as personal factors. The picture produced by this combination of factors and dimensions is of "the person in his or her world." The classification treats these dimensions as interactive and dynamic rather than linear or static. It allows for an assessment of the degree of disability, although it is not a measurement instrument. It is applicable to all people, whatever their health condition. The language of the ICF is neutral as to etiology, placing the emphasis on function rather than condition or disease. It also is carefully designed to be relevant across cultures as well as age groups and genders, making it highly appropriate for heterogeneous populations.

When people originally believed that the earth was flat, if that had not been questioned, science wouldn't have advanced this far. ..saying the biopsychosocial model has no value, and that it is "woo", is very similar to that. Sandyshore - university researcher and wikipedian.

Human beings are spatially and temporally limited parts of the whole that we call "universe"; yet we experience ourselves and our feelings as separate from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of our consciousness.

footnotes of n_Einstein_Translation.php included in entryNote.php, e_Einstein_HumanDelusion.php, and e_personalMeta.php.

my translation

Ein Mensch ist ein räumlich und zeitlich beschränktes Stück des Ganzen, was wir „Universum“ nennen. Er erlebt sich und sein Fühlen als abgetrennt gegenüber dem Rest, eine optische Täuschung seines Bewusstseins. Das Streben nach Befreiung von dieser Täuschung ist der einzige Gegenstand wirklicher Religion. Nicht das Nähren der Illusion sondern nur ihre Überwindung gibt uns das erreichbare Maß inneren Friedens. Albert Einstein, 1950.

Einstein wrote the above words, in ink (bold emphasis added), in a note now held in the Albert Einstein Archives, Jerusalem. The translation I have made of them, and quoted from, is made in light of the translation that appears underneath them on the note and written in another hand.

There seem to me several reasons to make another translation: to reflect the gender neutrality of the German more consistently; to echo Einstein's use of both the word delusion and illusion; and to better reflect the certitude of the note's opening argument — carried in the brevity of the original German yet somehow stunted in the translation on the note itself in English.

The translation I offer here then, supported by translations by Google on 6 March 2024, is based on that written in pencil on the original note:—

Human beings are spatially and temporally limited parts of the whole that we call "universe"; yet we experience ourselves and our feelings as separate from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of our consciousness. The striving to be free of this delusion is the only object of real religion. It is not nurturing the illusion but only overcoming it which gives that measure of inner peace which is attainable. Albert Einstein, 1950.

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of pure religion, not to nourish the delusion but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind.

This translation, in pencil on the original note, became the text of the condolence letter sent from Einstein to Dr. Marcus on 12 February 1950. The first two sentences of it were then used to open the letter of condolence sent on the 4 March 1950 to Norman Salt.

delusions and illusions

Einstein spoke the refined German of the Bildungsbürgertum, a language characterized by its precision. It might the be reasonable to assume, as an inspection of Einstein's note also suggests, that his use of the word Täuschung (delusion) twice and Illusion once, was considered not careless.

The German word Täuschung in the original note, meaning 'delusion'.

Etymologically the word delusion implies an action, a deceiving, referring here to that suffered by human beings through our consciousness, through which we perceive a deceptive appearance, the illusion of being "separated from the rest".

Technically, delusion is a belief that, though false, has been surrendered to and accepted by the whole mind as a truth; illusion is an impression that, though false, is entertained on the recommendation of the senses or the imagination. Illusion (n.), developed in Church Latin from the late 14c. onwards to mean: a "deceptive appearance".

On delusion, and illusion; from the Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved: 4 October 2022.

Although I believe the translations that I have found are faithful, quotations, stripped of their context can lose much of their quality. Transliteration of punctuation, for instance, can result in an English that makes their authors sound coarse or uneducated; and 'grammatical transliterations' may substitute gender bias for the gender neutrality of an original.

Where I have edited translations it has been only in order to address issues of punctuation, prosody, and inference that I felt detracted from the content of the originals. The edits have been made with due diligence and, although I am not a professional translator or writer, I believe they are both faithful, and required to make the fluency, erudition, and sensibility of the originals explicit. Original texts are provided for readers to draw their own conclusions.

Footnote {delusion01a} of n_Einstein_Translation.php.

..as free-spirited and anti-bourgeois as Einstein may have appeared to be all his life, his language remained the refined German of the Bildungsbürgertum of his time, a language he mastered with virtuosity.

from a 2008 essay by Barbara Wolff, Albert Einstein Archives, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The prefix "meta-" is used here as in the term meta-language — metalanguage: a system of symbols or signs (a language) used to describe or contextualize another language.

I'd like people to reconceptualize cancer as a biological event that triggers stress responses affecting how the disease progresses... Managing those stress responses by adopting healthy eating and exercise habits, getting a good night's sleep, and finding good emotional and social support, should be regarded as much a part of cancer treatment as chemotherapy or radiation.

David Spiegel, MD, Stanford University Medical Center.Stanford research builds link between sleep, cancer progression, Stanford Medicine News Center, 2003.

The article, from which the above quote was taken, although apparently accessible in 2024, has now been taken down by Stanford Medicine. The new article (at https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2004/02/link-between-sleep-cancer-progression-explored-by-stanford-researcher.html) still refers to Spiegal's work, but the expurgated quote there now seems, intentionally or otherwise, to downplay the research and to distance Stanford from Spiegal and the view he expressed.

family inheritance

Life is the state of being. Being is the condition of BEINGS.

A BEING is a descendant of a BEING.

I am a BEING.

It is as correct or incorrect to say that hormones create love as it is to say that love creates hormones. Love is not definable in the way that hormones are; they are terms in different reference frames.

Noumenon, is a Greek word meaning "that which is perceived". It is used the word Kant used to identify the thing-in-itself, the underlying reality that is then recognized by an observer as a SIGN.

Kant referred to the recognition of the thing-in-itself as perception, but here PERCEPTION is used to label one of four stages bootstrapped by RECOGNITION in the process of BIOSEMIOSIS.

Communicate: to convey information through a system of arbitrary signals.

Language: a system of arbitrary signals used to communicate information.

Meaning: the sense or reference of an expression.

Recognize: to know something as the same as, or belonging to the same class as, something known before.

Semantic: of or relating to meaning.

The definitions above, apart from those for meaning and recognize which are after those in the Collins English Dictionary, are after those in the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.

Hydrozoa show great diversity of lifestyle; some species maintain the polyp form for their entire life and do not form medusae at all Polyps of some species propagate vegetatively, forming colonies.. polymorphism occurs in colonies of some species of hydrozoans and anthozoans, the polyps being specialized for functions such as feeding, defense, and sexual reproduction.

Ruppert, Edward E.; Fox, Richard, S.; Barnes, Robert D. (2004). Invertebrate Zoology, 7th edition. Cengage Learning. pp. 148-174; cited in Jellyfish, Taxonomy (list item: Staurozoa), Wikipedia..

Fautin, Daphne G. and Sandra L. Romano. 1997. Cnidaria. Sea anemones, corals, jellyfish, sea pens, hydra. Version 24 April 1997. http://tolweb.org/Cnidaria/2461/1997.04.24 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/.

anthropocentrism

Anthropocentrism is the narcissistic belief that the human species is the central fact and final aim of a universe that must therefore be understood in terms of human experience, needs, and values.

Ribeiroia in herons, fungi on beetles, or the staph in our guts, win minds and hearts over to serve other gods. Shut outside our doors of reason, flocking crows and horses, otters, gorillas, chimps and geese, play follow the leader. What makes us special. Or more so than dogs.

science

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. Albert Einstein.

Science is an elementary practice. Scientism is a belief. Eugenics and the Holocaust it drove are among the brutal consequences and stark reminders of not recognizing this distinction.

from: Physics and Reality, published in the Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 221, Issue 3, March 1936, pp. 349-382.