This is very interesting, and timely. I am completing an
autobiography/essay/monograph for which this will be quite relevant. The
opening lines of the work:
*"An act of frottage triggered the self-recognition that I was a psychopath. I
did not, of course, know either term or their meanings.*
*
*
*I was six." *
davew
On Thu, Aug 1, 2024, at 11:03 AM, glen wrote:
> Progress or Pathology? Differential Diagnosis and Intervention Criteria
> for Meditation-Related Challenges: Perspectives From Buddhist
> Meditation Teachers and Practitioners
> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7403193/
>
> Based on our conversation attempting to identify behavioral markers for
> consciousness, I thought this paper might give some insight into Dave's
> straddling of mystical and materialistic descriptions of experiences he
> marks as conscious. In the paper, they lay out 11 levers for making the
> distinction:
>
> • Circumstances of Onset
> • Control
> • Critical Attitude
> • Cultural Compatibility
> • Distress
> • Duration
> • Functional Impairment
> • Health History or Condition
> • Impact
> • Phenomenological Qualities
> • Teachers’ Skills or Resources
>
> From my perspective that consciousness is a kind of fusion function,
> Control, Critical Attitude, Distress, and Functional Impairment are
> primary and the rest are secondary. The ability to (change one's) focus
> of attention is a hallmark of consciousness, and those 4 levers
> direclty target one's ability to focus. Duration may well be secondary
> and the rest tertiary, I guess. Because there's something like a
> half-life of controllability. If, say, you're a conspiracy theorist,
> and you *entertain*, say, flat earth for long enough, maybe you'll lack
> the ability to re-focus and don a critical attitude. Similarly, if you
> embed into, say, procedural programming long enough, maybe you'll lose
> the ability to re-focus and think functionally ... a kind of Functional
> Impairment (sorry for the polysemy of "functional", there).
>
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>
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