[ExI] Circumcision

[William Flynn Wallace]

What if PTSD if More Physical Than Psychological  NYT title

When are we ever going to get over it?  I mean the idea that the mind is of
two sorts:  physical and nonphysical.  This so-called mind-body problem has
to die.  All evidence points to a physical mind and none to any other.
 "It's all in your mind" is a sort of insult; it's saying that somehow it's
not really real.

bill w

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 6:00 AM, Henry Rivera <hrivera at alumni.virginia.edu>
wrote:

> Anders, your supposition of likely memory disruption is supported by the
> data, and did you see this recent provocative article?
>
> What if PTSD if More Physical Than Psychological.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/magazine/what-if-ptsd-is-more-physical-than-psychological.html
>
> -Henry
>
> > On Jun 15, 2016, at 5:24 AM, Anders <anders at aleph.se> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2016-06-14 22:54, BillK wrote:
> >> Remembered suffering = PTSD and that ruins lives.
> >> PTSD victims would welcome amnesia.
> >
> > PTSD is a unusual fault mode of the memory system. Seems to be possible
> to induce by strong aversive experience setting up a link between a
> context/memory and amygdala activation, but not everybody is vulnerable. It
> might be that PTSD sufferers actually can remember suffering, but also that
> they might be "good" at generating new suffering (memory is reconstructive)
> or just that it is a bad feedback loop of somewhat bad experience
> triggering stress and hence a learning signal that reinforces the memory
> (and this loop then becomes aversive even if the memory isn't). Not sure
> where the current neuroconsensus is on which alternative is most likely.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Dr Anders Sandberg
> > Future of Humanity Institute
> > Oxford Martin School
> > Oxford University
> >
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