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So the truly hard thing to accept, which Leibniz, neuropsychology and physics all indicate we should accept with open arms, is that there is no 'real physics' beyond the mathematical pattern of the dynamics and our experience. What makes the mathematical patterns real is the ability to create...

Death is the failure of the aggregate of actions we call a body to keep working to maintain itself as that sort of aggregate. It is of rather little metaphysical significance. The individual actions that are souls within the body probably are immortal in a sense, in that they involve the entire...

Well turkeys never did vote that way I guess.

there seems to be something of a problem with whistleblowing within psychology being linked with personal axe grinding that benefits from the whistling. There is no suggestion that David Marks is involved in this but Pelosi seems to maybe have other irons in fires, judging by his defence of...

When you change your definition to something else. Inflammation is originally defined as a group of processes characterised by opening up and leakage of blood vessels. That makes the tissue red - hence inflammation. Inflammation is mediated by chemicals like histamine, prostaglandins, kinins...

My point is that this is the absolutely up to date physics view. And in the seventeenth century at least some of the people who started physics could see the need for it because they understood the contradictions in 'solar system atoms'. Nothing has superseded that understanding. It just got...

The problem is that this sort of envisageable analogy is what we want to avoid. An action is not any 'thing' acting, it is just an action. Actions are the substratum. Things are woven out of actions. Interestingly, this was a well understood way of looking at things in the seventeenth century...

Sounds like the sanguinoicteromelancholiophlegmatic model.

This would do well as an extra from Alice in Wonderland, maybe said by the White Queen or the caterpillar. An 'Open Case Trial' reminds me a bit of the 'open mind' that is so open the brain falls out.

I agree that predictive coding is an essential part of sensations of touch and movement. I am not sure it plays the same role for pain, though. I don't know the answer to this but my guess is that people with phantom limb pain do not have a very clear idea what position the non-limb is in, just...

It took me the best part of a decade!

It looks to me that this report was quite heavily influenced by advice from Luis Nacul. As I understand it Luis considers GET contraindicated. His view on CBT is that general CBT may be helpful as part of a package but CBT is not first line treatment for ME for se. It is interesting that...

No actions are not 'made' of energy. Energy is a mathematical concept that describes some measure of actions that is conserved when they follow on from each other. So energy might be like the height of a tree, but trees are not made of height. Actions are made of action - which is more like...

The whole business about trying to make health care 100% efficient is worth some thought. We know that 100% bed occupancy in hospital sis dangerous but I suspect people do not realise just how essential 'inefficiency' is to good health care. The idea of a doctor is someone who is likely to know...

The problem is that we know that this is not a valid way to think of the universe. There is no microscopic precision. That would require a microscope to interact with and perturb what was being studied and nothing has an 'exact position' anyway. Electrons are not particles, so they are never in...

Leibniz made the interesting point that belief in destiny, as you put it, does not imply determinism. Almost everyone has confused the two. Determinism says that for any given physics state of a system there is only one possible setoff future states. Quantum theory shows that to be wrong and...

Tush, it is a pure Leibnizian biscuit. A monad of biscuit action (which gets boring if there is much more) reflected in a universe of dark chocolate. It lives up to the blurb in the packet 'more chocolate than a biscuit'. If they were any cheaper one would not appreciate how wonderful they are...

Er yes. The best of all possible biscuits. The only problem is that there aren't enough in the packet

Another thing that reads between the lines is that despite the hype it is clear that much of the time the treatment does not work. Moss-Morris talks of 'struggling' with MUS patients. Lahmann talks of the importance of changing patients' views in the first two weeks - the implication being that...

I have been through this East London Foundation Trust video and made some notes. It provides a very clear display of the confused double-speak underlying the whole programme. According to Moss-Morris the best evidence is for irritable bowel, chronic pain and chronic fatigue. I would be...