David Corfield

Philosopher. Published with 'Modal Homotopy Type Theory' (OUP, 2020). Published with D. Leader 'Why do people get ill?' (Penguin, 2007).

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@KemtrupTweets ...what is manifestly physiologically problematic. A lifetime of internalised unexpressed rage can cause measurable damage to a heart.

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@KemtrupTweets I consider the best use of the term "psychosomatic" to be when it qualifies an approach to medicine, as in this French institute: https://t.co/8Wxnb3DYgA. There's a danger in the term "psychosomatic symptom" that one plays down the role of the psyche in...

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@KemtrupTweets @Mark_Solms Some day I'll get back to my psychosomatic interests (https://t.co/zk9LnAJ98c). While an academic philosopher I was in the process of working on the placebo effect, a concept full of snags. I think there's an interesting Solms-Mike Levin path to follow (https://t.co/epJAA0T1x8).

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What if we carried over @drmichaellevin's thoughts in his blog post about competition between organs https://t.co/5K6gBIk2QJ to @Mark_Solms' account of the various (7) emotional drives, supported by different brain systems?

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@UrsSchreiber Any new developments here?

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@drmbennett Yes, a kind of meta-drive to afford opportunities for the satisfaction of the other drives. Problems ensue from too great a displacement of homeostasis in both directions.

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@drmbennett There's a joy in coming to understand a new city or a new symphony, corresponding to a kind of meta-drive, like the Panksepp-Solms SEEK system.

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@drmbennett Re your last point, there's also the idea of pleasure coming from exceeding expectations of the rate of reduction of free energy. Locking oneself away in a predictable world wouldn't provide this.

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@drmbennett Did you see Solms' work on interpreting early Freud's neurology in terms of Friston's free energy principle in his 'New project for a scientific psychology' https://t.co/rZ6F7p7Xwo?

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@drmbennett I wonder what people have made of the link. Here are a couple of papers: https://t.co/yEzHovwGU2, and https://t.co/QVyhhxF4si

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@drmbennett The other extreme has someone too much in the grip of the signal, "slavery to the senses".

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@drmbennett It's a parameter of the inference system to do with the level of reliability placed on the signal. One extreme has this set very low, so no signal can have much effect, like your isolation of internal states, delusions, and so on.

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@drmbennett I was gathering some work on the interface of psychoanalysis and active inference over here: https://t.co/zF7DrkFzNi. Mark Solms and Karl Friston have published together too: https://t.co/5BAZ2hqsaJ

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@drmbennett Suggestive, isn't it? There's also the idea of autistic disorders being high on 'precision' (or 'precision weighting'), the amount of attention paid to external signals, as opposed to schizoid disorders.

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@KemtrupTweets @HughRobertsonR1 Then again, given consistent results about the correlation between depression and longer recovery time after heart surgery, something of the attitude of the psychotherapist would be welcome in cardiology.

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@KemtrupTweets @HughRobertsonR1 Of course, one might expect some difference in attitude between clinicians. Nobody requires of, say, a cardiologist that they have issues with the health of their heart, whereas a psychoanalyst must have had a training analysis to work through their own complexes.

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@NoahChrein That's what we need iterated graphical decomposition spaces for: https://t.co/2dlKTxtoYJ

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@NoahChrein I look forward to that.

[Urs Schreiber @UrsSchreiber]

Funding has just been renewed, for the next 5 years:
https://t.co/4PNqqj2io2

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@NoahChrein Do you make any contact with 'algebraic patterns' (https://t.co/xWhqmgY6YO)? I was looking into iterated forms of these on https://t.co/yWGSWvIUx7