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We have for so long incorrectly believed the mind is both the disease and the cure. This is evident even in our use of the phrase "mental health."

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Hyperfocus on specific body parts by providers seems to be a major failure mode of modern health care. The universe doesn't care that mankind decided to split the body into N systems for the sole purpose of creating specialties to provide health care.

Yep, and the various specialists hardly communicate.

We have for so long incorrectly believed that the mind and body are separate.

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When you say "mind" do you mean consciousness, or System 1 in Kahneman's terms? Or do you also include nonconscious nervous system activity including Kahneman's System 2 and other embodied cognition?

Even though a mind may arise from a body, could the computational processes characteristic of a mind not also be activated from a non-body?

I'm reading and influenced right now by Kinds Of Minds by Daniel Dennett.

https://www.amazon.com/Kinds-Minds-Understanding-Consciousne...

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