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Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana
We must abandon causal concepts
Maturana's theory also indicates that we must abandon causal concepts such as those of the "purpose" of symptoms: the "function" of disorders: the "resistance" of this complainant etc. All of these are attributions of an observer. As Kelly pointed out the notion of 'resistance'…
Osx Dictionary
Kerfuffle
noun [ in sing. ] informal, chiefly Brit. a commotion or fuss, esp. one caused by conflicting views: there was a kerfuffle over the chairmanship. ORIGIN early 19th cent.: perhaps from Scots curfuffle (probably from Scottish Gaelic car ‘twist, bend’ + imitative Scots fuffle ‘to…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Pathological cases shed light on ordinary selves
Broks has written eloquently about these issues, first in magazines and newspapers, and then in his book Into the Silent Land. His prose evokes the strangeness, mysteries and paradoxes of our experiences of self, usually starting from pathological cases, but using them to shine…
Transient epileptic amnesia
Another example is found in people suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy, in an experience called transient epileptic amnesia.
Spiritual selflessness as a freak pathology
The environment seems real but unfamiliar, but they know that they are. What is it that Descartes said? I know that I am, but what is this I that I know?’ This sounds very similar to Suzanne Segal’s far longer-term experience, and to the kind of state of selflessness that many…
The fragility of our seemingly essential selves
Writers like Oliver Sacks, Paul Broks and Todd Feinberg have vividly described numerous other strange cases, often with detailed neurological explanations. Reading them, one is struck by the fragility of what we take to be permanent, essential features of our selves.
Armchair necessities contradicted by facts
These arguments seem compelling, but attempts to work out from the armchair what is necessary for experience to be possible, as Cassam and Kant do, are always vulnerable to facts emerging on the ground which plain contradict them. People with Cotard Syndrome or transient…
Toward An Ontological Treatment Of Disease And Diagnosis
Disease vs disorder
Disease: A disposition (i) to undergo pathological processes that (ii) exists in an organism because of one or more disorders in that organism. Epilepsy as a disease that disposes to the occurrence of seizures (pathological processes) due to an underlying abnormality in the…