A systems view of biological health
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Health instead of Pathology as a starting point to re-frame human behaviour and physiology
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Boundary and Relationality - Life is complexity, complexity requires division (boundary) - which then implies relationship
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Symbiosis: the body as an ecosystem
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Life is self referential: relationships extenmd inwards as well as outwards
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Identity as a biological principle
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Function and Form - the interplay between things (anatomy) and processes (mobile interrelationships)
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Pulsations Polarities Rhythms & Gestures: common modes of communication
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Innate survival agendas: how life has optimised itself for survival from its very beginnings
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Adaptation, adaptedness & adaptive capacity: three important inter-related concepts
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Optimisation of Energy and Structure: a core survival strategy
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Consciousness and Intelligence is not just held the human frontal cortex
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A (simple!) mapping of consciousness and its associated concepts - intelligence, awareness, memory, identity
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A vast ocean of information: what we could sense if only there were the attentive bandwidth to do it
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The various timeframes of the present moment: shifts forwards and backwards in time as an intrinsic part of the reality of Living systems
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The Window of Attention: how much can you keep in your bandwidth of attention at aony one moment (and what happens to everything else)?
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Meaning making - the universal link between information and response/action
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The constant flux of calibration: how we (ideally) leave the past behind and attune wholeheartedly to the present
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The Direction of Flow of Meaning
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Predicting the future - the basis of movement
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The three kinds of survival - Plan A (using energy, turning outwards) and Plan B (conserving energy, turning inwards)
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Left Brain, Right Brain - two very different ways of seeing the world
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Feedback loops and conversation theory - a fractal hierarchy of selective communication
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Semiotics and signs - a little more on how Life communicates with itself
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The Imaginary and the Imaginal - unpicking yet another cultural confusion
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Expectation and Anticipation determine the first meaning-making
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Gestalts - learning to expect how the world is so that meaning-making is fast
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Conscious Agents
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Mirror Neurons and the primacy of movement - all meaning-ful response is movement, response is based on meaning-making, therefore meaning equals movement!
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The asymmetry of safety vs danger - fast to react to (potential) threat, slow to return to safety
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The 40-second rule - how long it takes for your nervous system to begin to recognise safety
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Internal employees - a few key gestalts in your internal organisation
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Attentive engagement - the reason we have a cognitive mind
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Loose coupling: organ-isation of the organ-ism by means of modulation of communication
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Not One, Not Two: nothing can be removed from its environment and also be unchanged
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Not just biology (q.v. Viktor Frankl)
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The Autonomic Nervous System as a means to an end
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The Three Compartment Body Plan : our evolutionary inheritance
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From Shrimps to_Mammals : not a lot of change to the three-compartmnnt body plan!
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Living in the Safe enough zone: safe-enough is as good as it gets
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Emotions of connection
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Normal adaptation: Plan A Plan B: life as a polarity
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Surviving extremes: Plan A+ and Plan B+
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Imprints - and their similarity to Gestalts
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Fragmentation in a biological setting (... is NOT a set of fragments!)
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From Mammals to Hominids: our more immediate ancestry
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Conclusion
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Summary
