44. The Dark Side of Depression
An internal dissociation between consciousness and the non-conscious may be hidden in depression. Is it just the brain that’s depressed, or is it the total person? It is not that depression has nothing to do with hormones and neurotransmitters and the like, but does it make sense to talk about a ‘depressed brain’? This also Read the full article…
42. Chronic Fatigue: I Would Get Tired of It
A person suffering from chronic fatigue has no control over his fatigue, regardless of whether it is physical or psychological. The last thing someone with chronic fatigue needs is a chronic fight for appreciation and respect. Such a fight stands in the way of an unbiased search for a meaningful solution. Well, we are currently Read the full article…
And more
I closed my eyes – more or less – put my hand in the box of PubMed (huge repository of abstracts and references to top-level medical journal articles) and took out a bunch of relevant research to share it with you in this chapter. There is a lot more in PubMed for whoever cares to Read the full article…
41. A Cause is not a Cause, Especially if it is Psychological
If one always stops at material causes, then the psyche is being filtered out (and vice versa). Searching for ‘the real cause’ of a phenomenon is generally human, although it is also known that, in many cases, this search is oversimplifying things. It does encourage action, though, so it is a happy middle of the Read the full article…
39. ADHD, the Fight for Attention
Children need ‘deep attention.’ In particular, what I have in mind is attention to who they are as a total person and, above all, to what remains invisible while giving ‘superficial attention.’ We have a responsibility to treat children well and to save them from unnecessary misery. If that means having to find possible causes Read the full article…
Scientific Facts – Bibliography
[AlZahrani et al., 2019] AlZahrani AS1, Alshamrani FJ, Al-Khamis FA, Al-Sulaiman AA, Al Ghamdi WS, Al Ghamdi OA, Mohammad MY, Alshayea MS, Alhazmi RA, Alkhaja MA. Association of acute stress with multiple sclerosis onset and relapse in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Med J. 2019 Apr;40(4):372-378. [Antonovsky, 1987] Antonovsky, A., Unraveling the Mystery of Health. How People Read the full article…
Spirituality – Deep vs. Superficial
What shows itself as spirituality may be pretty superficial. Please read first: [see: “Spirituality“] Many people seem to be looking for the superficial kind. Many are not even looking for spirituality in spirituality, but rather any evasion ― providing the idea that “this is not all” while not carrying any threat. The ‘search for spirituality’ Read the full article…
Not Stress but Meaning is a Cause of Disease.
Looking at stress – as it is typically conceived – we may be looking over what causes disease and may help us get beyond disease. It is time to change diagnostic and therapeutic directions. One reason for the difficulty of investigating stress as a cause of disease is that it isn’t. Thus, in scientific experimental Read the full article…
35. Vaccination Hesitancy: the Good, the less Good, and the Ugly
December 23, 2020 Daily Total Cases worldwide 683.254 79.036.628 Deaths worldwide 13.468 1.736.720 Preliminaries This text is also part of a project at ResearchGate. Before reading this, you may be interested in how-to diminish vaccination hesitancy: [see: “How to Make Someone Take His Vaccination”] The world is about to be vaccinated. Yet, many people Read the full article…
To Placebo or Not to Placebo
By definition, placebo is deception. It doesn’t accord to any Aurelian value. This ain’t no easy world for sure. Yep. A much easier world would be one in which one can plainly say: only truth can truly cure, so we stick to that as much as we can (which may sometimes not be very much, Read the full article…
Quit Smoking – Read&Do
This is the foreword to my book ‘Quit Smoking’ that you can find on Amazon (see menu). Better than other methods? You may have attempted to quit smoking already several times and with different methods. Every method will try to convince you it’s unique and will work better than all the others. Well, I can Read the full article…
Core of Sustainability
Sustainability goals start and end with human growth. Sustainability = an interaction with a system that puts at least as much value into the system as it gets out of it. The system is then sustainable regarding that value. The law of entropy dictates that this always accompanies the lessening of other things that might Read the full article…
34. Millions of Unneeded COVID Deaths in 2021?
What do you think? December 12, 2020 Daily Total Cases worldwide 704.570 71.454.215 Deaths worldwide 12.413 1.600.483 (from Worldometer) Nobody dies with no reason. There is always a reason. But this present reason is irrational. It is inhumane. It is insupportable. These are fathers, mothers, children. They say that one death is worse than Read the full article…
A.I. Business Sustainability
Following a chapter of my book. [see: “The Journey Towards Compassionate A.I.“] As the cliché goes: One thing is certain, and that is the uncertainty of the future. Trillions “PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates AI deployment will add $15.7 trillion to global GDP by 2030.” [Lee, 2018] If this is not a business opportunity, then what is? And Read the full article…
Gendering the Workplace
The workplace still disfavors women in many respects. Let’s project a future vision of a workplace with gender as a source of joy and interesting experiences, and without any disfavors. ‘Gender inequality’ as a problem to work on, can be turned into ‘gender equality’ to strive for. There is more positivity in this than just Read the full article…
Superficial Empathy?
‘Empathy’ sometimes has a bad name, being what may lead people to irrational behavior. Making a proper distinction between superficial and deep empathy brings us a lot further. A warning: ‘Superficial empathy’ is possible. And it’s, well, superficial, in the sense of exclusively shallow. The latter is very different from a superficial layer that is Read the full article…
Transparency in A.I.
We should strive to the highest degree of transparency in A.I., but not at the detriment of ourselves. Information transparency In conceptual information processing systems (frequently called A.I.), transparency is the showing of all data (information, concepts) that are used in decision making of any kind. In system-human interaction, the human may ask the system Read the full article…