'The Body Politic' c/o Dennett

 "Evolution embodies information in every part of every organism. A whale's baleen embodies information about the food it eats, and the liquid medium in which it finds its food. A bird's wing embodies information about the medium in which it does its work. A  chameleon's skin, more dramatically, carries information about its current environment. An animal's viscera and hormonal systems embody a great deal of information about the world in which its ancestors have lived. This information doesn't have to be copied in the brain at all. It doesn't have to be 'represented' in 'data structures' in the nervous system. . . . 

By using the old bodily systems as a sort of sounding board, or reactive audience", or critic, the central nervous system can be guided - sometimes nudged, sometimes slammed - into wise policies. Put it to the vote of the body, in effect." p.79.

INDIVIDUAL
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 INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 

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GROUP

MIND CONSCIOUSNESS COGNITION	ANATOMY - PHYSIOLOGY EVOLUTION BODY
	POLITIC

Dennett, D.C.  (1996) Chapter 3. The Body and its Minds. In. Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness. Basic Books.

SHAME AND MEDICINE PROJECT: 2022

‘PHENOMENOLOGY AND SHAME EXPERIENCES’

SPECIAL PANEL BSP ANNUAL UK CONFERENCE 2022

Call For Papers for special panel for the 2022 British Society for Phenomenology Annual Conference

Location: University of Exeter, UK, in-person and virtual (hybrid)

Date: Tuesday 30 August – Thursday 1 September 2022

CFP deadline: Thursday 31 March 2022 (midnight UK).

The “Phenomenology and Shame Experiences” Call for Papers invites abstracts to be considered for a special panel for the 2022 British Society for Phenomenology Annual Conference on the theme of Engaged Phenomenology II.

This panel is sponsored by the Shame and Medicine Project and the aim of the panel is to encourage an engaged phenomenological approach to considering shame in its various forms, and how it relates to and effects features of lived experience such as embodiment, affective life, consciousness, sociality, intersubjectivity, intercorporeality, health, among others.

Check out the full CfP for ‘Phenomenology and Shame Experiences’.

https://shameandmedicine.org/call-for-papers-phenomenology-and-shame-experiences/

 

Individual
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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ------------------------------------------ mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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Group

COGNITION lived experience emotions mental health interpersonal skills self-conscious shame self-stigma subjectivity	physical health dis-ability place - privacy medicine health care HEALTH STATUS objectivity
STIGMA SHAME SOCIAL COGNITION communication meanings dignity and respect	health status [REAL?] power health professionals (whose parity of esteem, autonomy, control?) 'Cost' to health systems?

 

My source:

Philos-L "The Liverpool List" Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/philosophy/philos-l/

@PhilosL @LiverpoolPhilos

 

Deep *and* Broad ... Hodges' model is no blank slate ...

"Beyond deep learning

Steeper than expected

Different researchers have different ideas about how to try to improve things. One idea is to widen the scope, rather than the volume, of what machines are taught. Christopher Manning, of Stanford University's AI Lab, points out that biological brains learn from far richer data-sets than machines. Artificial language models are trained solely on large quantities of text or speech. But a baby, he says, can rely on sounds, tone of voice or tracking what its parents are looking at, as well as a rich physical environment to help it anchor abstract concepts in the real world. This shades into an old idea in AI research called "embodied cognition", which holds that if minds are to understand the world properly, they need to be fully embodied in it, not confined to an abstracted existence as pulses of electricity in a data-centre.

Biology offers other ideas, too. Dr Brooks argues that the current generation of AI researchers "fetishise" models that begin as blank slates, with no hand-crafted hints built in by their creators. But "all animals are born with structure in their brains," he says. 'That's where you get instincts from.'" p.11.

The Economist, Technology Quarterly: Artificial intelligence and its limits. The Economist, June 13 2020, 435:9198. [and image source].

'Deep and Broad' - as required.

Individual :: Group - Please scratch my back!

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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GROUP

	< - Please, please scratch my back!
Oh, Yes! Lovely! Now I suppose I have to sratch yours...?! ->

 

Source: BBC Radio 4 Inside Science 8 October 2020

"Claudia Hammond looks at the neuroscience behind our sense of touch. Why does a gentle touch from a loved one make us feel good? This is a question that neuroscientists have been exploring since the late 1990's, following the discovery of a special class of nerve fibres in the skin. There seems to be a neurological system dedicated to sensing and processing the gentle stroking you might receive from a parent or lover or friend, or that a monkey might receive from another grooming it. Claudia talks to neuroscientists Victoria Abraira, Rebecca Bohme, Katerina Fotopoulou and Francis McGlone who all investigate our sense of emotional touch, and she hears from Ian Waterman who lost his sense of touch at the age of eighteen"

 

2nd Workshop: Conceptual Spaces at Work - 25-27 August 2016, Sweden

The workshop focuses on concepts and their applications using the theory of Conceptual Spaces (CS), as introduced by Peter Gärdenfors (2000).

Applications of Conceptual Spaces

It provides a geometric model for the representation of human conceptual knowledge that bridges the symbolic and the sub-conceptual levels of representation. The model has already proven to have a broad range of applicability, not only within cognitive science but also across a number of disciplines related to concepts and representation. 

A sample of this work is collected in Zenker & Gärdenfors (2015), based on papers presented in Conceptual Spaces at Work 2012 at Lund University.

...

(I hope to attend.)

W2tQ: 'conceptual spaces'

'situated' in Hodges' model #1

I'm not exactly sure how many times I've cut and pasted the paragraphs that introduce Hodges' model as person-centered and situated. Quite a few!

Thanks to the HIFA-2015 list I realised last week that there is no tag for 'situated' on W2tQ. Well, this post corrects that omission, but what does situated mean in Hodges' model?

Here is a definition c/o Google:

• situated/s'ɪtʃueɪtɪd/
  Synonyms:

  • adjective: located
  • If something is situated in a particular place or position, it is in that place or position. ADJ adv ADJ v-link ADJ prep
    ...

Related phrases

• situate
  If you situate something such as an idea or fact in a particular context, you relate it to that context, especially in order to understand it better.
  ...

Hodges' model is based on the belief that health and social care are multicontextual. Without wishing to substitute one term for another context and situation are inter-related and bear closer examination here on W2tQ.

Hodges' model prompts the user to consider that the person (-at-the-center) of care is simultaneously residing within four primary situations or contexts (five - if we include the spiritual aspects). Veterans and new recruits appreciate from the dizzy heights of the model, how quickly we find complexity in the multiple contexts that exist in health and social care. The many perspectives and views that must be taken into account to achieve safe, integrated and holistic care. Together with the above there are other definitions of relevance to scholars, champions and users of Hodges' model:

located: situated in a particular spot or position; "valuable centrally located urban land"; "strategically placed artillery"; "a house set on a ...
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

In artificial intelligence and cognitive science, the term situated refers to an agent which is embedded in an environment. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situated

Located in a specific place; Supplied with money or means
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/situated

The first definition about location is important as Hodges' model puts the person at the center. It is from there that the care domains are considered in turn and revisited as required. Hodges' model provides a locus around which care activities can be placed. Usually we view self-centeredness in a pejorative way. When you think about it though this is precisely what is needed to achieve person-centered care. In this case we need something that constantly re-centers - reorientates the subject(s) and agent(s) of care.

The second definition which looks to A.I. for inspiration is relevant as the concept of embodiment, embeddedness already has academic form* as a means to explore self-centeredness. Not only is the individual embedded in a (the) situation, but the carer (formal - informal) must also reside there and share to an extent the experience, if empathy, rapport and communication are to arise.

That final definition can be utilised due to the inclusion of means. People have skills, strengths and coping strategies and this sense of situated rings very true at present, with the emphasis on recovery, staying well, relapse prevention and adjusting to what may be permanent change. People also need knowledge as a means to maximise their health and well-being, which takes me back where I started with Health Information for All by 2015.

So, amid all the complexity, over-arching infrastructures, policies,
debate (and definitions!) it is refreshing that as I revel in the
scope of Hodges' model - two axes, four domains,
its holistic bandwidth... I can find the
word 'situated' planted
firmly
at the model's
center.

* Ref:
Paley, J. (2004) Clinical cognition and embodiment, International Journal of Nursing Studies, Volume 41, Issue 1, Pages 1-13.

Image source - with thanks: Ariel Bravy - http://www.arielbravy.com/photoblog/
http://www.arielbravy.com/photoblog/images/20060719214447_glenn%20x%20millenium%20park.jpg