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<p>I jumped straight to the Artistic meaning of <i>frottage</i> as
coined originally by Max Ernst and while not as an act of
psychopathy, it does have strong implications for the
psychological/subconscious implications in this context?</p>
<p>In any case, I find it a compelling opening line of the <i>call
me Ishmael</i> caliber.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/5/24 10:04 AM, Prof David West
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">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:<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"><i>"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><br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"><i>I was six." </i><br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">davew<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">On Thu, Aug 1, 2024, at 11:03 AM,
glen wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> Progress or Pathology?
Differential Diagnosis and Intervention Criteria <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> for Meditation-Related
Challenges: Perspectives From Buddhist <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> Meditation Teachers and
Practitioners<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> <a
href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7403193/"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7403193/</a><br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> Based on our conversation
attempting to identify behavioral markers for <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> consciousness, I thought this
paper might give some insight into Dave's <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> straddling of mystical and
materialistic descriptions of experiences he <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> marks as conscious. In the
paper, they lay out 11 levers for making the <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> distinction:<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> • Circumstances of Onset<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> • Control<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> • Critical Attitude<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> • Cultural Compatibility<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> • Distress<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> • Duration<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> • Functional Impairment<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> • Health History or Condition<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> • Impact<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> • Phenomenological Qualities<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> • Teachers’ Skills or
Resources<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> From my perspective that
consciousness is a kind of fusion function, <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> Control, Critical Attitude,
Distress, and Functional Impairment are <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> primary and the rest are
secondary. The ability to (change one's) focus <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> of attention is a hallmark of
consciousness, and those 4 levers <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> direclty target one's ability
to focus. Duration may well be secondary <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> and the rest tertiary, I
guess. Because there's something like a <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> half-life of controllability.
If, say, you're a conspiracy theorist, <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> and you *entertain*, say,
flat earth for long enough, maybe you'll lack <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> the ability to re-focus and
don a critical attitude. Similarly, if you <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> embed into, say, procedural
programming long enough, maybe you'll lose <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> the ability to re-focus and
think functionally ... a kind of Functional <br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> Impairment (sorry for the
polysemy of "functional", there).<br>
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