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Group: bionet.neuroscience · Group Profile
Author: kenken Date: Mar 5, 2008 12:50
"John Hasenkam" goawayplease.com> wrote in message news:13stbls364keoaa@corp.supernews.com...
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Hi John,
'guess money can buy happiness
after all'.
[Only kidding.]
It's an example of pseudo-faith.
It happens be-cause immune-system
function is literally a form of Cognition.
That which becomes 'familiar' [TD E/I-
minimized 'within' one's nervous sys-
tem] correlates to increased-order
'within' neural-activation, and increased-
order 'within' neural-activation tends to
render immune-system function com-
mensurately-ordered and -functional.
["Disease" is absence-of-order, so order
is absence-of-disease, which, taken-to-
gether, is literally how 'the' immune
system 'knows' how to 'move' [become-
active] with respect to disease -- dis-
order(up) is the immune system's "fire-
alarm".]
"Money" is a concept that tends to be
relatively-'familiar' [even though "hav-
ing-money" often isn't :-]
=All other things= being neutral, doing
the relatively-'familiar' [relatively-TD
E/I-minimized] thing -- "throwing-
money-at-problems" -- results in a de-
gree of 'td e/i-minimization' merely
because doing so, like "going to the
doctor [to receive a placebo]", is
culturally-relatively-'familiar'.
Given that a Person has 'money',
spending a little-bit-more 'money'
will correlate to commensurately-
more 'td e/i-minimization' than
will 'not-spending-enough' [which
relationship Retailers also use 'in-
tuitively' to imbue their stuff with
relative-'perceptual-value'.]
To the degree that it occurs, TD E/I-
minimization is what actually does
anything [not 'money', etc.] [I'm on-
ly discussing "the placebo effect", not
other Medicine. "Placebos" don't cure
cancer. TD E/I-minimization routinely
does [as in, "Everyone gets cancer
some 'time' during their Lives, but
not everyone dies from it" -- be-
cause TD E/I-minimization can, and
does, "sweat-the-small-stuff" -- dis-
ease that's 'smoldering' rather than
already 'blazing'.]]
This's the same-stuff that underpins
the existence of Erroneous theories
in Science -- like during the 1,000-
'year'-'life-time' of Earth-centric
Ptolemaic Astronomy.
It was Wrong.
Folks still had pseudo-faith in-it be-
cause it was what'd merely come to
be relatively-'familiar'.
At the base, all such pseudo-faith
is 'just' relative-TD E/I-minimization.
Which is some of how and why NDT's
stuff is 'Difficult'. NDT eliminates the
'blindness', and folks're 'familiar' with
"being-'blind' ", even though just-Seeing
is Easier in the long-term. Folks don't
routinely do the work inherent in Seeing
be-cause doing it =always= increases
TD E/I over the short-term [which is the
most-basic Reason that understanding
how and why nervous systems process
information via 'blindly'-automated TD
E/I-minimization is worth-the-energy --
enables folks to 'get-over-the-hump'
with respect to the short-term TD E/I
(up)s that routinely 'block' folks' elim-
inating the conditions of long-term
"slow-burns", to 'move toward' Truth
with respect to =long-term= TD E/I-
minimization, thus freeing themselves
of relative-disorder's "slow-burning"
energy-dissipation [long-term Waste.]]
What's the "difference" between "pseudo-
faith" and just-plain "Faith"?
Pseudo-faith always has a 'crutch' [like
'money', 'fame', 'prestige', etc.] prop-
ping-it-up. In the case of Ptolemaic
Astronomy, it was ancient capital-in-
vestments in Observatories, their equip-
ment, folks' incomes, and the 'perks'
of Royal-Service -- same as 'today' :-]
"Faith" 'flies-solo' [sans-'crutches'], found-
ed-in-what-one-Sees-through-the-'lens'-
of-TD E/I-minimization-while-ranging-
widely during the course of experience,
which wide-rangingness is Necessary
if unknown-'crutches' are to be elim-
inated. "Faith" doesn't allow 'stuff' to
predetermine 'movement'.
Our bodies are 'just' built-in-the-cor-
related-way.
TD E/I-minimization literally grasps
the just-energy that underpins phys-
ical reality, enabling us to "Know"
physical reality.
Folks're usually 'satisfied' with pseudo-
faith, "slow-burns", and all, be-cause
that's the culturally-inculcated thing,
and even though "slow-burns" tend
to merge across Populations and
"explode" via interpersonal-mutual-
TD E/I(up) induction [AoK, Ap8.]
[Gee-whiz, I'm long-winded.
Hope I've not offended.]
Cheers John,
ken [k. p. collins]
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