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Study comparing placebo effect with no-placebo. https://t.co/82cFbDa1Ht
I never invoked the placebo. I needed the cure to be legible and the problem to be legible. An intangible sadness? An illegible tension? I didn’t know to name them, so I did not have the concept of self-soothing or tending to them. https://t.co/IfTdWG3Nsn
I’m conflating placebo and self-soothing here, but that’s because they often are the same thing, and self-soothing 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 I always wondered: Why do people self-soothe? Isn’t it strange an animal should self-stroke itself, like it’s trying to convey information to itself?
Synchronising information across your mind is not trivial. Your brain is largely parallel and cached, and synchronising is perhaps the central problem. https://t.co/CJIK0yWHmT
Maintaing the self-evidencing attractor loops that define any complex system is not trivial. The state of such complex systems cannot be flipped with a switch. Self-soothing co-entrains us with ourselves. https://t.co/2BexawHX7F