Psychiatrist's "Blame Me For Trouble? Don't Dig In The Past" and my Contemplations

"문제는 내 탓? 과거 파지말라" 분석 멈추라는 정신과 전문의 조언 | 중앙일보 (joongang.co.kr)

"Many patients I meet in the doctor's office are constantly pondering their past or wounds and looking for reasons why they are having a hard time. However, analysis such as "I have this wound" and "This is my life because of others" does not improve. Turn off the thought switch and focus on finding a way to live well now. If you live well in the present, the past becomes powerless." 

The message of psychiatrist Jeon Mi-kyung (48) was different from books with keywords such as self-analysis, comfort, and empathy that have been popular in recent years. In his book "You Are Stronger Than I Thought," published this month, he advises those who complain of mental pain to stop bad psychological habits such as self-determination, regret, and self-pity. And it encourages you to find your hidden psychological capabilities and initiative and solve the problem. I met him on the 23rd, who said that he had written a book to overcome his depressed and lethargic days like patients.

Q. Why stop analyzing and thinking about yourself?

"People don't know themselves well. You don't even know where to start if you have a problem. This is why concepts such as MBTI personality type tests and inner children (the concept of counseling that childhood experiences remain after adulthood and affect life and behavior) are popular. He analyzes that the present is like this because of past events or his personality, and then he slaps his knee. But that's the end. Life doesn't improve much."

Q. Why is it hard to stop negative thoughts such as self-determination and regret.

"If you turn the cause of the problem to the past, yourself, and others, you feel comfortable. Because you don't have to try to change the situation. Instead of solving a difficult situation, let's keep looking inside."

He explained that Sigmund Freud's theory of psychoanalysis and inner children, which has been settled in the past, has limitations in current society. Freud's psychoanalysis is the concept of finding unconscious memories and healing psychological problems. Freud lived in an era where the level of education and human rights was low and there were no psychiatric drugs, he said. "The way of selling the past worked because individual efforts could not live the present properly."

Q. Still, wouldn't the strong inside have the power to solve the problem.

"Of course, those who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to things that are hard to handle need professional trauma treatment and warm empathy first. But even if you're weak inside, you have the power to change things. Even with depression, panic disorder. I've been through a difficult growth background, but I see a lot of cases of rolling and running in reality. There is also post-traumatic stress, but many people are moving toward post-traumatic growth."

Jeon said he disliked telling young people who lack economic power, "Life as it is is okay," or "Don't mind the gaze around you" to someone with a free mentality. Instead, it advises patients who fail the civil service exam seven times to "look for another job," or patients who want to change their spouses who commit adultery to "don't expect it." They say that brave abandonment is needed, not easy avoidance.

Jeon lost his parents one after another last year. He said he realized that he was similar to the patients he met in the doctor's office while spending the day and night in tears in self-blame and regret. And I wrote a book trying to overcome this.

Contemplation / Eam Taekyoung

"I will convey this knowledge to my own sons, to my teachers, and to my disciples who have been signed by protocol and oath according to the law of medicine. But I will not pass this knowledge on to anyone else."

The above is in the original Hippocrates oath. The phrase "I will not convey this knowledge to anyone else" implies that you should not invade other areas and do not stay still if others try to invade.

Psychiatrist Jeon Mi-kyung's claim that "concentrate energy on living the present rather than selling the past" seems to be an accident within the psychiatric framework. I agree that analyzing the past alone cannot solve the problem. However, it is difficult to change myself in the present if I do not understand the past. The law of inertia in physics is that "an object tries to maintain its current state if no external force is applied," which works the same way for the human mind.

Meanwhile, director Yang Jae-jin, who appeared in MBC's "One-time Instructor" and "The Life of a Wise Relationship," also says that attempting to change a person's personality is likely to lead to the breakdown of the relationship. 

I think half right and half wrong about this. I agree that it is impossible for others to try to change me directly, but indirectly, I think it is possible to change gradually over time and to change myself with the appropriate methodology. Of course, it is not easy. More fundamentally, the medical community has reached a deep understanding in detailed areas, but it seems to be a very shallow understanding of the relationship between each area. It is locked in the framework of the above Hippocrates oath.  

Psychologist Carl Jung saw evil as the result of an individual's failure to integrate and balance his unconscious or shadow self. He also said that an individual who suppresses or denies his dark impulses is more likely to project it on others and act in a destructive manner. If you turn his story into an interpretation of the reason why I'm having a hard time now, it will be as follows.

"My current characteristics, which are formed according to the Neuroplasticity, in which nerves related to the body part are more developed and nerves related to the body part that are used a little, are not yet integrated and balanced." So now I'm in a state of high instability. Therefore, it is necessary to integrate this unstable state and go to the stage of reaching balance so that we can fully escape from the difficult situations." 

"Even most modern people who do scientific work, including the medical profession, still do not fully accept the fact that 'human beings are a union of cells,' and that 'there is desire because there is a body, and there is fear because there is desire.'"

If I understand the process of forming a person's tendency, I can understand why it is difficult for me to get out of this difficult situation. In general, a person's personality is formed by the Neuroplasticity created by the reality that he or she has no choice but to choose one particular path among the very various paths that can be chosen on the voyage of life. It can be understood that it is not only difficult to change my current characteristics but also that effective strategies can be systematically implemented to modify them in a good way only when it is understood that it was formed through various variables and long-term processes.

Let's be a little bit more specific. The existence of "I" controls my body and mind through automatic control mode by brain stem (life support activity, reptile brain) and limbic system (emotion, mammalian brain) and thinking control mode of neocortex (reason, primate brain) based on reflection. I can recognize and analyze the outside world and myself mainly through experience and some reasons and change my control program to big and small based on this. My current control program is the result of the interaction between 'experiences & reasons from the past' and 'my control programs from the past that are continuously but momentarily slightly different'. The control program is programmed according to the "Neuroplasticity" in which nerves related to frequently used body parts are more developed and nerves related to slightly used body parts regress.

"A mental or physical approach alone is very difficult to solve the problems you are experiencing. Medicine should move toward an integrated observation of the body and mind and exploring the methodology that these two reach balance." 

Each man has his own attitude. The posture consists of 'body posture', 'breathing posture', and 'mind posture' in detail. These postures are the result of a specific individual's life, and the results form body and neural structural characteristics by interacting with each other through the channel of silver breathing. The important thing here is that it is much more effective to use a neural structure approach secondary to the body's postural path than to approach the neural structure path as a way to change one's tendency. Through research related to this, I summarized the 'Major 8 Principles of Body Posture', 'Major 3 Principles of Breathing Posture', and 'Major 6 Principles of Mind Posture'.(see link below) 

The 8 main principles of body posture

The 3 main principles of breathing posture

The 6 main principles of mind posture

I believe that understanding and accepting "the eight main principles of body posture," "the three main principles of breathing posture," and "the six main principles of mind posture" are the best happiness solutions that have nothing to compare in cost-effectiveness. I'm sure my research above lacks a lot, but I'm looking forward to someone opening up a new level of medicine based on this feeble study of mine.

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Dementia is a degenerative disease caused by a bent neck!

Current progress of mitochondrial transplantation that promotes neuronal regeneration | Translational Neurodegeneration | Full Text (biomedcentral.com)

"Mutations of mitochondrial DNA, proteins and impaired mitochondrial function have been implicated in the neurodegenerative diseases, stroke and injury of the central nervous system (CNS). The dynamic feature of mitochondrial fusion, fission, trafficking and turnover have also been documented in these diseases.

To this end, mitochondrial transplantation presents a new paradigm of therapeutic intervention that benefits neuronal survival and regeneration for neurodegenerative diseases, stroke, and CNS injury. Supplement of healthy mitochondria to damaged neurons has been reported to promote neuronal viability, activity and neurite re-growth. In this review, we provide an overview of the recent advance and development on mitochondrial therapy."

Injury-induced morphogenesis and distribution of mitochondria in neurons. a Healthy neurons. b (upper panel) In response to neuronal injury, the size and number of mitochondria are increased around the axon hillock. (bottom panel) Stimuli, such as low-dose ionizing radiation stress, induces mitochondrial fusion [56]. c During neuronal regeneration, density of mitochondria and their transport are increased in the regenerating axon. Moreover, knockout of Snph or overexpressing Armcx1 have been shown to improve mitochondrial motility and promote axonal regeneration [59, 60]

Comparing walking and running in persistence hunting - ScienceDirect

"The need for higher aerobic capacity and mitochondrial volume would rise with intensity of the locomotion, e.g., due to challenging terrain, carried loads, and velocity. As modern hunter-gatherers usually walk relatively slowly (e.g., about 1.1 m s−1 in Hadza; Pontzer et al., 2015), foraging might not require high aerobic capacity. Similarly, persistence hunting by walking would not be expected to select for higher aerobic capacity unless it benefited from faster velocities which require higher oxygen uptake (e.g., Ralston, 1958). More intensive running-based scavenging or persistence hunting would put stronger selection pressure for increased aerobic capacity in hominins compared to walking (Bramble and Lieberman, 2004; Pontzer, 2017)."

Contemplation / Eam Taekyoung

The energy transformers of our bodies and their roles are as follows.

* Small intestine = Final transformer of ingested food into blood-carrying nutrients (glucose, etc.)

* Lung = extractor of oxygen that can carry blood from the air

* Bone marrow = red blood cell producers, carriers of nutrients and oxygen

* Cardiovascular = Transporters into individual cells of blood (red blood cells, oxygen, nutrients, etc.)

* Mitochondria = Transformers of oxygen, nutrients, etc. in received blood into energy (ATP) available to individual cells

As explained above, mitochondria are responsible for finally converting energy into usable energy for cells. The fact that dementia treatment through mitochondrial transplantation is attracting attention as a new dementia treatment method and that aerobic exercise and mitochondrial volume are proportional to each other seem to enable a new interpretation of the causes and countermeasures of dementia. I feel the need to carry out the causes and solutions of dementia as follows.

A. Dementia is a degenerative disease. Physical activity decreases compared to life expectancy that has suddenly increased since the 1950s, and rapid progress to a labor and sitting-oriented society worsens the condition of the blood vessel system passing through the neck, especially after the age of 50, resulting in quantitative and qualitative deterioration of blood supplied to the brain.

​B. In order to prevent dementia, it is most important to prevent the neck from bending forward in the average posture of daily life. Next, it is important to reduce the activity in which the brain continuously concentrates on something because fatigue substances accumulate when the breathing volume is small compared to the energy used. The reason why the life span of the writing job, which is inevitably stressful, is short compared to those with other jobs is because of breathing.

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Purpose of body movement, types of power, good movement

The purpose of body movement through running or walking

1.  Fast movement: The speed at which the body moves to a specific point
2.  Movement: moving the body to a specific point
3.  Transportation (labor): moving a specific object to a specific point
4.  Muscular strength (exercise): Maintaining or strengthening the body's muscular strength
5.  Recovery (Exercise): Restoration of body organ fatigue and circulatory disorders (plays the most important role in health after about 50 years of age)

The type of force that moves the body

1. Pushing force: the force that the plantar sesamoid bone spur the ground
2. Moment: Moment induced by body parts protruding horizontally from the grounding point (e.g., the more the head protrudes forward during movement, the less the force required for the plantar sesamoid bone to spur the ground)
3. Rotational force: Combination of the cushioning function of one leg and the rotational force on the transverse plane of the upper body

The main requirement for good body mobility

1. Moment minimization: Body parts that deviate from the alignment line required by the combination of gravity and movement speed cause additional muscle energy consumption. When additional energy consumption of specific muscles is repeated, posture deformation is induced. (V footstep walking --> Bowed leg, protruding head --> stooped posture)
2. Satisfying the law of change: Just like inhalation and exhalation, the left and right sides of the body must repeat sufficient tension and relaxation so that fatigue does not accumulate.
3. Satisfaction of the law of balance: The left and right paired muscles must be used in a balanced way so as not to lead to posture deformation. (Use of one leg or one arm more often also causes posture deformation).

Modern man's life and average body movement

 Infancy = crawling --> Adolescence = sitting, running, and walking --> Adult = sitting, walking, and running --> Old age = sitting and walking --> Late age = sitting and lying

chatGPT! what do you think evil is?

Eam Taekyoung : what do you think evil is?

chatGPT : As an AI language model, I do not have personal beliefs or feelings. However, the concept of "evil" is often associated with actions or behaviors that are morally or ethically wrong, harmful, or malicious towards others. What is considered evil can vary depending on cultural, social, and personal values, but it generally involves intentionally causing harm, pain, or suffering to others without just cause. Some examples of actions that are commonly considered evil include murder, torture, rape, genocide, and exploitation.

Eam Taekyoung : I am defining evil as:

“Evil is the intention and action to drive the balance state into bias concentration. There are present equilibrium, temporal (past, present, future) equilibrium, and spatial equilibrium. If present equilibrium interferes with temporal or spatial equilibrium, this too can become evil."

Can you give examples of evil defined by others?

chatGPT : Certainly, here are some examples of how others have defined or conceptualized "evil":

Philosopher Immanuel Kant defined evil as the intentional, willful destruction of the moral law or universal principles of right and wrong. He believed that evil actions were those that treated others as mere means to an end rather than as ends in themselves.

Religious traditions often view evil as a force or influence that opposes goodness, morality, and divine will. For example, in Christianity, evil is associated with Satan or the devil, who is believed to tempt humans into sin and rebellion against God.

Psychologist Carl Jung believed that evil was a result of the individual's failure to integrate and balance their unconscious or shadow self. He argued that individuals who repressed or denied their dark impulses were more likely to project them onto others and behave in destructive ways.

Social psychologist Philip Zimbardo's famous Stanford Prison Experiment demonstrated how situational factors can lead people to engage in evil behaviors. In the experiment, college students playing the role of guards in a simulated prison quickly became abusive and cruel towards the "prisoners," highlighting the power of situational factors in influencing behavior.

Sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that modern society has created conditions that make it easier for people to commit evil acts without taking responsibility for them. He referred to this as "banal evil," which he described as the routine and mundane forms of evil that are a part of everyday life in modern society, such as bureaucratic oppression and corporate greed.

Eam Taekyoung : Ok. Thank you! Bye!

chatGPT : You're welcome! If you have any more questions in the future, feel free to ask. Goodbye!

The history of information

Consider the macro historical flow and future of information production, distribution, and control. However, gossip information was excluded from consideration.

Primitive society

* Information Type: Empirical Knowledge

* Production: Older person (=intelligent person)

* Distribution channel: elder--> young child

* Means of distribution: Speaking and action

* Control: Person in power (= Older person)

In the primitive society, information was produced and distributed centering on the elderly with abundant empirical knowledge.

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Agricultural society

* Information type: Product information (agricultural products, products), agricultural knowledge, academic knowledge, culture, scientific knowledge

* Production: Merchants, advanced civilizations, religious people, intellectuals.

* Distribution channel: producer--> merchant-->consumer, advanced civilization society-->intellectual people-->falling society, intellectuals-->unintelligent people, elders-->young children, books-->people

* Means of distribution: Market, speech, book

* Control: Political power, organization power (senior)

In an agricultural society, information on agricultural products and advanced civilization was distributed mainly to markets and intellectuals. The general public centered on the elderly could play a certain role in the market.

Industrial society

* Information Type: Product Information, Scientific Knowledge, Academic Knowledge, Culture

* Production: Companies, experts (scholars), labs, entertainers

* Distribution channels: merchants-->consumers, developed countries-->developed countries, media-->public, books-->people, government-->private

* Distribution means: Mass media (radio, TV, newspaper, etc.), books, computers, markets, speech, books.

* Control: Power in the regime, the media, and the organization.

In the industrial society, product, scientific knowledge, and academic knowledge exploded and information was distributed mainly through mass media due to the development of science and technology. The general public has completely lost its leading position in the production and distribution of information and has been alienated as a position that only accepts it.

Smartphone society (information society)

* Information Type: Product Information, Culture, Scientific Knowledge, Academic Knowledge, Consumer Information

* Production: Companies, Data companies, celebrities (singer, actor, sports star, etc.), research institutes, experts

* Distribution channel: company--> portal-->individual, celebrity-->media-->individual, media-->public, expert-->non-professional, young--> elder

* Distribution means: Smartphone (SNS), computer, mass media (TV, newspaper, radio), book

* Control: Law, portal companies, media

In the smartphone society (information society), "consumer consumption information" and "celebrity information" begin to be produced in large quantities, and the development of various media allows the general public to participate in distribution again, and smartphones, a combination of telephone, computer, and Internet functions, are becoming a key link in distribution.

Based on the era until adolescence, the main time to determine lifestyle, in Korea, very different culturally inclined groups consisting of agricultural (born before about 1965), industrial (born before about 1995), and smartphone (born after about 1995) live together. 

​It may be difficult because there are many heterogeneous elements, or it may be full of vitality because it is diverse.

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AI society

* Information type: AI extraction information, data extraction information, consumer information, product information, culture, scientific knowledge

* Production: AI companies, data companies, celebrities (singer, actor, sports star, etc.), research institutes, experts.

* Distribution route: Company-->AI (smartphone)-->Individual

* Distribution Method: AI & Smartphone

* Control: Law, Public Opinion

Perhaps, AI will gradually become a key pillar of information production and distribution after 2025, the beginning of a new generation every 30 years, following the smartphone society (born after about 1995).

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Why standing is harder than walking?

When standing, fatigue continuously builds up in the leg muscles.

When we stand upright, the lower part of the thighbone remains on the upper part of the calf bone, which forms an inclined plane of about 12 degrees. As you support your thighs and upper body on this unstable surface, the muscles involved must remain tense.

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However, if the calf bone is tilted forward by about 12 degrees so that the lower face of thighbone is placed on the flat upper surface of the calfbone, the fatigue of the entire leg, including the knee, is reduced compared to standing upright. The reason why you unconsciously lean on one foot is because fatigue accumulates a lot when you stand upright.

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Standing state = continuous low-intensity tension state, Walking state = state in which tension and relaxation are alternately repeated

When walking, the muscles on the left and right sides of the body are in a state of tension and relaxation alternately, so the muscles of the legs and upper body are repeatedly given a relaxed state for about 0.5 to 1 second, even though the load on the upper body acts more heavily than when standing. In this short but relaxed state, the muscles can rest.

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Why standing is harder than walking?

For the two reasons mentioned above, standing generally causes more fatigue than walking. However, if you walk a lot more than you normally do, fatigue can build up a lot.

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Why walking a lot is good for your health?

The reason why walking a lot is good for health is because of the above two reasons. To increase the effect of walking, it is better to walk with a slightly upward gaze, as shown in the picture on the far right above. In the state of upward gaze, the body parts where the muscles are constantly tensed is completely disappearing. When looking straight ahead or looking down, some muscles related to the neck and back are constantly in a tense state. The continuous state of muscle tension leads to the accumulation of stress substances and means that blood circulation is not being performed smoothly.

#Why #standing #harder #walking? #good #health

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Research results on sleep habits and a new hypothesis about pillows and beds for good sleep

1. Research results on sleep habits

According to foreign sources such as CNN, the US Harvard Medical School and Israeli Deaconses Medical Center co -research team recently studied the effects of sleep habits on their lifespan.

First of all, the team sleeps for 7 to 8 hours a day with good sleep habits. There were five things, including words.

CNN added that it would be helpful to follow the method of sleep hygiene to sleep well. This includes ▲ falling asleep and waking up at the same time on weekends and holidays ▲ making a cool and dark optimal environment ▲ avoiding drinking before going to sleep ▲ Prohibition of using blue light an hour before sleeping.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/23/health/sleep-longevity-study-wellness/index.html

2. A new hypothesis about pillows and beds for good sleep/Eam Taekyoung

Introducing my personal research results in relation to sleep. According to my study, there are two important things that people don't know about sleep. The shape of the pillow and the slope of the bed. These are things that affect the posture of the body of sleep.

Sleeping with a typical pillow can reduce the function of the respiratory and cardiovascular function by shrinking the chest in the long run. In the back of the skull, there are two relatively flat places on the left and right, which is an evolutionary product to keep a person stable when a person lies. These places help not to tilt too much from the left and right when they sleep, and to change their posture intermittently.

Figure 1

Considering the shape of this skull, the pillow looks good to have a structure as shown below. When you lie down right away, the pillow height is low, but it can prevent it from being tilted from side to side. When you lie down to the side, you can put it on the high area of the pillow so that the cervical spine can be horizontal.

Figure 2

However, when you lie down right away, the downward tilt is formed from the stomach to the esophagus (see Figure 3). Therefore, it is easy to cause gastroesophageal reflux disease in a relatively short period of time. I actually experienced. Therefore, if you need to choose either, it is a good choice to prevent problems that can occur in the short term by not using too low pillows.

Figure 3

But why don't you use a slope bed (see Figure 4) and a low pillow (see Figure 2) at the same time? This will theoretically solve both problems. According to the article from Medical News Today, a sloped bed seems to have been proved to have a positive contribution to snoring, sleep apnea and blood circulation.

Figure 4

I did not actually use the slope bed in Figure 4 and the pillows of Figure 2. It is just the theoretical hypothesis.

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Expected stages of evolution in conversational AI

1st generation (chatGPT) : extracting top-level information + expressing it in human language


2nd generation : logical error extraction from given information + expressing it in human language

3rd generation : predicting the future though analysis of past trend changes + expressing it in human language

4th Generation : extracting question of 'Why' from given information + Expression in Human Language

#Expected #stages #evolution #conversational #AI #chatGPT

Analysis of why Google, the icon of innovation, fails too much

 It comes after Google's massive restructuring on January 20, which surprised the tech industry around the world as well as Silicon Valley. On this day, 12,000 people and 6% of Google employees lost their jobs.

Many projects have been carried out in line with Google X's goal of preparing for the future of search engines by developing technologies and services that others cannot think of. However, it is recognized that Every day Robots, Autonomous driving through Waymo, Biotechnology through Verily, Hot-air balloon Internet, Flying wind farms, and Google Glass have failed in their current state.

Google has a broader perspective and a stronger willingness to prepare for the future than other companies. However, the level of understanding the long course of human history seems low. What was the long course of human history? 

A. History of living organisms

On average, except for plants, all animals, including humans, have a long history of being energy-satisfied. Also, no animal, including humans, has something that evolutionarily reflects the management function of energy-fulfilling states. 

Animals that cannot make their own energy have the lowest emotion of aggression to acquire energy to ensure their survival and fear not to become energy for other animals. Furthermore, the constant lack of energy seems to have made aggression and fear essential to life. However, since the First Industrial Revolution (about 250 years ago), a significant number of people have experienced over-fulfillment. Things have changed, but we still live with aggression and fear in nature. 

This aggression and fear seem to be inducing a universal feeling of 'feeling of deficiency' in humans as labor begins. I believe that the "feeling of scarcity" has been strengthened little by little as long-term labor began to generalize as agriculture began in earnest about 7,000 years ago, but suddenly became a sedentary-centered society after the first industrial revolution. 

When strong external threats such as predators and natural disasters existed, it seems that they felt strong emotional satisfaction while overcoming difficulties together through solidarity between humans. But as civilization develops, strong external threats have gradually disappeared, reducing the need for solidarity, and weakening solidarity seems to be reducing emotional fulfillment. On the other hand, physical labor in the agricultural era and mental labor in a sitting position after industrialization (including emotional labor) seem to accumulate constant low-intensity stress on the body in a person's life. This persistent low-intensity stress seems to be the most common but not easily recognized trace of poison that increases aggression and, in severe cases, leads to depression. 

However, the tendency of aggression and fear to pursue material energy predation is leading not only to "feeling of scarcity" but also to harm the stability of the Earth, the home of life on Earth.

B. the six main orders of organic evolution

On the other hand, I believe that the following six orders are extracted from the history of life and social organisms. ​

1. Principle of optimum efficiency 

The direction of evolution to higher life was to minimize the moment (the force to rotate around a point) generated by the body during energy acquisition activities. This can be expressed as the direction of pursuing optimal efficiency for energy acquisition/consumption. The optimization has continued in the direction of walking animals in the upright and flying or swimming animals in the streamlined direction. Here, 'pursuit' does not mean pursuit as a direct will. Looking back on the results of interaction between natural selection and rare leaps (mutations), a tendency to be interpreted as "pursuit" is observed.

2. Principle of instability

Instability is the driving force behind the evolution of life and social organisms (organization, state, etc.). "Inversibility leads to instability, instability leads to self-organization, and self-organization conceives life," said Ilya Prigozin, head of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In the same principle, desire (irreversibility) leads to confusion (insecurity), confusion (insecurity) leads to will to change (self-organization), and will to change (self-organization) has conceived a new society (life).

3. Principles of Aging

The rate of aging of individual life or individual social organisms is 'excessive energy accumulation' and 'deepening speed of energy distribution imbalance'. Harvard biologist Bernd Heinrich says, "Eating extra calories means growing faster and maturing faster, resulting in shorter lifespan." 

4. Principles of imitation

The structure of human society has evolved and will continue to emulate the human body and mind (brain) more precisely! Social structural evolution is human particle avatarization, and metaverse can be seen as wave avatarization.

5. Principles of Metacognition

All living things walk their own path of optimal efficiency. But the road can be classified into two paths. The first path is to conform to the will of selfish genes (survival and reproduction). The second path is beyond the will of this gene through metacognition. It is against the second law of thermodynamics. Socrates' words, "Know yourself!" can be seen as an official starting point for metacognition and social evolution.

6. Principle of connection

As much as the development of transportation and communication means, the scope of 'we' has expanded. Humans have been connected to each other as much as their development, and as much as they are connected, the scope of 'we' has expanded, and will continue to be so!

C. The 4 Major Weaknesses of Man and the Industrial Revolution

On the other hand, humans are showing weaknesses in the following 4 functions.

• Responding to slowly and continuously changing environment
• Oversufficient state management function
• Complex information simplification function
• Body and mind vulnerable to a sedentary activity-oriented society

Reinforcement technologies for "complex information simplification functions" have been implemented under the name of the 4th Industrial Revolution through cloud and AI technologies after the development of computers and IT technologies. The 4th Industrial Revolution is also expected to reinforce to some extent the "function of responding to slow and continuous environmental changes." I believe that the next revolution will be the technology that reinforces the last two weaknesses of humans, "over-fulfillment status management function" and "body and mind vulnerable to a sedentary activity-oriented society."

• 1st Industrial Revolution = Technology for replacing muscle strength (heat engine)
• 2nd Industrial Revolution = Energy conversion technology (electricity)
• 3rd Industrial Revolution = Some functional reinforcement technologies of the brain (computer and IT)
• The 4th Industrial Revolution = Reinforcement Technology (AI) of the Brain's Complex Information Processing Function 
• The 5th Industrial Revolution? = Brain's reinforcement of excess energy management functions, or body and mind vulnerable to a sedentary activity-oriented society.

D. Prediction of the 5th Industrial Revolution

The following areas play a major role in the 4th Industrial Revolution (technology-oriented that realizes the "principle of optimal efficiency" among the "major five orders of organic evolution" centered on digitalization).  

• FANG (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google): A platform company that eliminates existing distribution energy inefficiencies in the areas of human interaction, objects, movies, and information 
• Cryptocurrency: Money that eliminates the inefficiency of existing currencies that require arbitrators.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) : A technology that complements the speed and capacity of the human brain's information processing. 
• Internet of Things (IoT): Technology that connects objects and objects to each other through the Internet 
• Quantum Computing: Technology for Dramatically Increasing Computational Speed
• Metaverse: 3D virtual world on the Internet fused with the real world = Social realization of the imaging and storage capacity of the human brain 
• Nanotechnology: Technology for manipulating materials of atomic size 
• Bio: Physiology, Chemistry, Genetic Disease Control Technology 
• Advanced Materials: Material Development Technology to Extend the Limits of Existing Materials 

I expect the 5th Industrial Revolution to be centered on the following. It is listed in order from technically easy to implement to difficult.

• Realization of Postural Deformation Prevention Techniques in the Body
• Realization of AI technology that can analyze logical errors and ask creative questions from given information
• Realization of technology that realizes 'the principle of metacognition' among 'the five main orders of organic evolution'
• the realization of technology to ensure the stability of the earth
• Realization of technology to reinforce the brain's excess energy management functions 
• The realization of technology to increase transportation speed dramatically
• the realization of emotional (desire and fear) control techniques​

In conclusion, Google seems to have too many failures because it navigates to the unknown without a map.

#google #Failure #analysis 

Understanding body posture from the perspective of neuroplasticity

Neuroplasticity causes deformation of body posture!

'Neuroplasticity' means that the nerves related to the parts of the body that are used frequently develop more, and the nerves related to the parts of the body that are used less often degenerate. The development of nerves related to a specific part leads to the development of related muscles, and the biased development of these muscles causes deformation of body posture.

<Neuroplasticity/Feldenkrais (1904-1984, Ukraine)/engineer and physicist>

1. The mind programs the functions of the brain.

2. The brain cannot think without motor functions.

3. Movement awareness is the key to improving movement.

4. Discrimination (a conscious activity that makes the smallest possible sensory distinction between movements) maps the brain.

5. Discrimination is easiest when the stimulus is the smallest.

6. Slowness of movement is the key to awareness, and awareness is the key to learning.

7. Reduce effort if possible.

8. Errors are essential and there is no right way to move, only a better way.

9. Random movement provides change that leads to developmental breakthroughs.

10. Even the slightest movement of one part of the body involves the whole body.

11. Many movement problems and the resulting pain are caused by learned habits, not abnormal structures.

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*FCMA, Neuroplasticity principle 1. The mind programs the functioning of the brain.

In 1949, well ahead of the contemporary discussions of neural plasticity, Feldenkrais put forth the idea that the developing mind shapes our use of our neural capacities. That is, how we have come to think in language and images, what and how we perceive and attend to things, our preferences... begin to direct how our brain and nervous system works.

Feldenkrais wrote, "The mind gradually develops and begins to program the functioning of the brain. My way of looking at the mind and body involves a subtle method of 'rewiring' the structure of the whole human being to be functionally well integrated, which means being able to do what the individual wants. Each individual has the choice to wire himself in a special way" (Feldenkrais cited in Doidge, 2015, p. 159)

*What is mind? Minds were traditionally understood as substances but it is more common in the contemporary perspective to conceive them as properties or capacities possessed by humans and higher animals.

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*FCMA, Neuroplasticity principle 2. A brain cannot think without motor function.

Feldenkrais believed in the unity of "the mind and the body" Feldenkrais' use of imagined movements is one way we see is application of this principle. The bodily changes with emotion are another example. Doidge writes, "People may believe they can have a pure thought, but in a deeply relaxed state, Feldenkrais pointed out, they will observe every thought leads to a change in their muscles" (Doidge, 2015, p. 170)

* Eam Taekyoung : The sentence, “The brain cannot think without motor function,” is something I have never been aware of. It seems to open up the possibility of expanding into a completely new perception.

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* FCMA, Neuroplasticity principle 3. Awareness of movement is the key to improving movement.

Doidge writes, "The sensory system, [as] Feldenkrais pointed out, is intimately related to the movement system, not separate from it. Sensation's purpose is to orient, guide, help, control, coordinate, and assess the success of a movement." Improvement in our action does not always have to be conscious - in fact much of the learning in Feldenkrais lessons is not. However, experience with the Feldenkrais Method, now backed up by research into neuroplasticity, shows "that long-term neuroplastic change occurs most readily when a person or an animal pays close attention while learning" (Doidge, 2015, 170).

* Eam Taekyoung : If the modern society is a running activity-oriented society, our bodies have evolved to be suitable for running, so there will be little need to consciously recognize the movements of our bodies.

However, as the modern society passed through the Industrial Revolution, the need to walk or run decreased, and as smartphones became popular, the society rapidly became a sedentary activity-oriented society. Due to the influence of advances in medicine, the average life expectancy of people around the world has exceeded the age of 70, and some countries are moving towards the age of 90.

Therefore, from an individual's point of view, it is necessary from an early age to increase the understanding of body posture in order not to suffer from deterioration of health in life after the age of 40 at the earliest! From a social point of view, it seems necessary to recognize that sedentary-centered activity socialization, which induces continuous low-intensity stress, is the cause of increased aggression and depression among members along with the increase in the need for emotional labor!

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* Neuroplasticity principle 4. Differentiation - making the smallest possible sensory distinctions between movements - builds brain maps.

As infants we don't have very clear neural maps of our body parts and their relationships, and spend a lot of time sticking our fingers into our mouths in various combinations, wriggling our toes, kicking our legs, and other experimentation that builds more detailed maps; a process of differentiation. With injury our sense of our body and its body parts can become distorted or diminished. Doidge writes, "By making finely tuned - differentiated - movements of these parts and paying close attention while doing so, people experience them subjectively as becoming larger; they take up more of their mental maps, and that can lead to more refined brain maps". (Doidge, 2015, 171).

* Eam Taekyoung : It seems that the aspect of receiving a genetically genius brain as a gift cannot be ignored. However, continued exposure to 'distinctive novelty' within the digestible range appears to promote continued and positive brain development.

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* Neuroplasticity principle 5. Differentiation is easiest when the stimulus is the smallest.

Differentiation is the ability to notice differences in our experience - differences that can make a difference. This applies to the perception of light, sound, smell, and temperature - as well as muscular effort. This is known as the Fechner-Weber law or principle of perception - that the smaller the stimulus, the easier it is to sense differences. Developing finer and finer distinctions in sensation of muscular activity and movement allows the body to be represented in finer detail in the neuronal 'maps' in the nervous system. This might lead to sensory changes - such as the area involved feeling larger or lighter, for example, as well as allow for smoother and easier movements.

The pattern of each movement is created in the nervous system at, or before, the beginning of each movement. Feldenkrais and Doidge theorized that the nervous system can make use of the new, detailed sense of the body arising from the small movements to make the whole movement pattern easier. Doidge notes, "Many movement problems arise because areas of the body are not well represented in the brain maps". (Doidge, 2015, 172).

* Eam Taekyoung : The reason 'it is easiest to discern when the stimulus is the least' can be compared to 'a situation in which a fish jumps into a calm lake without a single wind'. When a typhoon hits, blue whales soar high above the water's surface, but you won't be able to see them very well.

Stimuli without surrounding noises will inevitably be easily recognized. It can be seen that the absolute intensity is not important, but the greater the relative difference, the easier it is to discriminate.

This may be the reason why people endlessly try to climb higher than others.

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* Neuroplasticity principle 6. Slowness of movement is the key to awareness, and awareness is the key to learning.

On the level of the nervous system, it seems that very rapid movements, such as those made by musicians, can sometimes lead to two or more movements becoming overlapped or "fused" in the firing in the nervous system, leading to a loss of coordination of the hands and fingers - sometimes in a condition known as Focal Dystonia of the Hand (FDh). The neural "maps" for "different fingers are now 'dedifferentiated'". It is likely that rapid computer work or over practiced movements in sports (such as golf) can lead to similar phenomena - which can also be associated with pain.

Principle #6 offers a way to approach these kinds of difficulties. Awareness is a key to learning: "slower movement leads to more subtle observation and map differentiation, so that more change is possible". This allows the mover to observe himself or herself more easily - becoming more aware of the qualities of their movement. In Awareness Through Movement lessons the process of self-observation while moving is necessary to experiment with how we are moving, to change the qualities of the movement, and to be aware of the difference between one movement and the next - one of the reasons we ask you to pause between movements and start each movement afresh. (Doidge, 2015, 173).

* Eam Taekyoung : Slow movement means that the energy required to execute the movement is small, so the lungs, heart, arms, and legs do not need to work vigorously. 'Slow movement' is a necessary condition for 'stimulus with minimal noise'. It is linked with Principle 5, "It is easiest to discern when the stimulus is smallest."

It seems that children's relatively static activities such as 'yoga' can help their brain development.

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* Neuroplasticity principle 7. Reduce the effort whenever possible.

Doidge suggests that our slogan should be 'if strain, no gain' rather than 'no pain, no gain'.

Feldenkrais proposed that compulsive effort leads to movement that is carried out on automatic, uses more effort and physical energy than is necessary, increases muscular tightness in parts of the body not even associated with the movement, and risks pain and injury.

In addition, the more force we use the less sensitivity we have to the how we are doing any movement - inhibiting our ability to sense ourselves more accurately in action. (Doidge, 2015, 173).

* Eam Taekyoung : Regarding the above sentence "if strain, no gain'", I feel, "If the product of the intensity of stress and its duration time exceeds a certain limit that individuals have, the body and mind greatly It can be distorted." could be a more accurate expression.

It is also worth noting that the more force you use, the less sensitive you are to what kind of movement you are making.

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* Neuroplasticity principle 8. Errors are essential, and there is no right way to move, only better ways. 

Doidge cites Feldenkrais' idea that striving to do everything correctly can inhibit the possibility of learning from the natural variation that occurs in our performance from 'errors'. As we sometimes say in Feldenkrais classes, 'if it is worth doing it is worth doing badly'.  

In Awareness Through Movement lessons we use a number of strategies to generate the kind of variation that leads to learning: going slowly, breaking movement patterns into parts, reversing movements, and introducing novel movements that we would not normally do in everyday life.  

We all have different bodies with different abilities and histories; Feldenkrais lessons aim to create the conditions for learning from 'errors'  - as well as from what feels good.  In these conditions, your nervous system can begin to identify and reproduce the new movement options that are best for you. (Doidge, 2015, 174).

In his 2015 book, Dr Norman Doidge devotes two chapters to the Feldenkrais Method. He provides a useful list of 11 Core Principles of the Method as he understands it. Here is a quick review of the final three.

* Eam Taekyoung : Errors are essential, but there is a correct way. Of all the better ways, the best way is probably the right way. There are several key points (the 7 main principles of body posture) that must be observed as the core of movement, and while keeping these key points, you can be individual in secondary things.

Feldenkrais would have thought so because he knew there were too many variables involved in movement. For example, our body has about 230 joints. The reason why it is difficult to implement human movements with robots is that only dozens of joints are applied to current robots.

"The relativity of time that a moving clock goes slower is a result of the more fundamental absoluteness that the speed of light is the same for everyone moving at a constant speed," said Professor Kim Beom-jun.

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* Neuroplasticity principle 9. Random movements provide variation that leads to developmental breakthroughs.

Doidge points to Feldenkrais’ observations of infant’s movement learning: that their random movements, driven by their own curiosity and stimulation from the environment, lead to new movement coordinations, such as rolling over, leaning on elbows, beginning to crawl. In fact as infant movement researcher and later Feldenkrais practitioner, Esther Thelen PhD, discovered: each child has their own individual pathways to learning movement.

This insight suggests pursuing an ideal movement in a regimented way does not lead to the kind of movement improvement stimulated by Feldenkrais lessons.  

Recent research in physical therapy shows that variation, not repetition of the same thing, are essential to learning new movement patterns as part of rehabilitation. Such variations are built into Feldenkrais lessons and generated by students as they explore how to make a movement.

* Eam Taekyoung : Change in life is more an act of pursuing optimal economic feasibility than a habit. The brain in childhood seems to go through a process of optimizing and refining a genetically-given basic program to suit the environment at hand.

It seems that the young brain can be upgraded to a program that can adapt well to the various environments in the future only when conditions are given to closely observe the various environments around it.

On the other hand, it seems that people who have passed adolescence generally do not make any effort to upgrade this program any more. Perhaps the person who continuously optimizes his or her brain program is the one who succeeds!

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* Neuroplasticity principle10. Even the smallest movement in one part of the body involves the entire body.

The body always works as a whole.  Every part of the body requires the support of the whole body to move. Even the smallest movement modifies the patterns of nervous system and muscular activation, along with the organization and orientation of the skeleton. 

This is felt particularly in some Awareness Through Movement lessons that involve the minimal lifting or lengthening of one part, e.g. an arm or leg, and sensing how the rest of the body responds. Feldenkrais lessons allow you to move any part of the body, and allow the forces to flow through your whole self, without any inefficient holding or bracing that can cause pain and strain.

* Eam Taekyoung : The reason it is difficult for a robot to accurately follow a human's walking posture is that the human body's ground contact surface is more concentrated than other animals, and it has about 230 joints. This is because realignment is essential so that the total moment induced by the body becomes 0 (zero) in order not to fall even if a slight change in the center of gravity occurs.

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* Neuroplasticity principle 11. Many movement problems, and the pain that goes with them, are caused by learned habit, not be abnormal structure.

Doidge points out that, “most conventional treatments assume the function is wholly dependent on the ‘underlying’ bodily structure and its limitations” (Doidge, 2015. p. 177). Feldenkrais comes from a functional point of view. Your habits are the ways you respond to your physical structure and history of injury, etc. They are learned preferences that can restrict your options and contribute to dysfunction and pain. The question then is how to unlearn your habits in ways that help resolve your movement problems and reduce pain, regardless of your physical structure and history of injury.

* Eam Taekyoung : Regarding the sentence above, "Your habits are the ways you respond to your physical structure and history of injury, etc.", I feel that the expression "personal habit is the result of subjectively pursuing optimal economic feasibility" is a more accurate expression.

Here, economic feasibility is the interaction of genetic health, acquired muscular strength, desire for comfort, and willingness to accept discomfort for health as variables.

In addition, it seems that this article can be viewed as describing only half of the whole since it was written only from the point of view of the brain and nerves, even though the body and mind are interconnected. In other words, what is observed from the point of view of the body is missing.

I suggest that you try to understand together the 'Seven Major Principles of Posture' that I have compiled and Feldenkrais' 'The 11 Major Principles of the Brain'. This effort will result in a deeper understanding of yourself, free from the past that has always focused on understanding the outside world. This will be a very effective way to become less swayed by life than in the past.

The 2 main principles of breathing posture

A person's current respiratory rate (Q) is proportional to the amount of current body(excluding the brain) activity (u), the amount of past fatigue accumulated in the current body (v), the degree of freedom of the diaphragm associated with the body's posture (w), and the amount of sympathetic nerve activation (x). It is inversely proportional to the current amount of brain activity (y) and the amount of tension of all muscles (z). (a = constant value per specific person)

More breathing reduces postural deformation, stress and negative desires (domination, stimulation, stagnation).

#principles #breathing #posture

Criticism of the paper, 'Self-Reflection of Cosmopolitanism: Negative Dialectical Critique' (Postdoctoral Researcher Kyungho Song)

1. In the economic aspect, mixed with the globalization strategy of transnational capital, it paradoxically gave birth to a longing for an exclusive ethnic community and protectionism.

What is the reason that gave rise to the longing for exclusive ethnic communities and protectionism? 

This is because the distribution system is too structured as a winner takes all. The brain of an adult human weighs about 1,400 g to 1,600 g. The average weight of people around the world is about 62kg, and the adult brain consumes about 20-25% of the body's calories when working intensively. The average human brain weight is about 2.4% of the world average weight. Human society has evolved and will continue to evolve in the direction of more accurately imitating the structure of the human body and brain. 

The current distribution of wealth is a structure in which 1.1% of the world's population owns about 45.8% of the world's wealth. The future needs to be oriented towards gradual improvement in the distribution structure so that the 2.4% of the world's population owns about 20-25% of the world's wealth.

2. From the political point of view, as the emphasis on democracy based on transnational institutions led to a negative view of democracy at the national level, the subject of democracy became unclear.

Why has the subject of democracy become unclear? 

This is because political power and money power collude with media power to distort scientific truth for their own benefit. The reason why the current global society is not moving toward true globalization is that each country's government is a Hydra society, with one head. 

What is the solution for this part? 

Unfortunately, it does not seem to be a problem that can be solved with willpower. When the means of transportation is drastically innovated and the physical distance between earth citizens becomes very close, it seems that the Hydra society with one body and several heads will be able to move forward to a true global citizenship society. In the long history of mankind, in the historical era, the heroic activities stand out, and in the prehistoric era, it looks disappointing. 

However, looking more simply, it can be seen that the prehistoric age was dependent on uprightness and the consequent increase in brain capacity, and the historical age was dependent on the level of development of transportation and communication.

#Criticism #Cosmopolitanism

The differences between living things and robots

#differences #living #things #robots

A New Hypothesis on the Functions of Mustache and Beard

https://www.wired.com/story/facial-hair-is-biologically-useless-so-why-do-humans-have-it/

I think the above article is a convincing hypothesis for the argument that mustaches and beards have a function in 'intersex attraction and intrasexual competition'.

But I hypothesize that something else might be the main function. Think about going for a run in cold weather. Moisture will settle as it freezes around the mouth and chin as you exhale rough breath without a beard. This can cause intense pain and in severe cases can lead to frostbite. Cold weather and long runs at high speeds can be conditions that require a beard.

Aren’t Europeans’ beards characteristically wider, denser, and longer than those of Asians or Africans? Europeans have been lived in relatively colder areas.

This hypothesis is accompanied by the hypothesis that the period when hair began to disappear from the entire face and the division of labor between men and women in gender roles at that time were in progress.

If the wind, sand and etc. are important for the evolution of facial hairs, it seems that modern men have long hairs around the eyes and ears also.

Summing up, I acknowledge that the cited paper's claim that men's emphasis on masculinity and women's emphasis on aesthetics influenced the evolution of facial hair is somewhat convincing. Meanwhile, I put forward another hypothesis. Modern women have virtually lost facial hair, and modern men have long mustaches and beards, but hair around the eyes and ears has almost disappeared. In particular, European men's mustaches and beards are growing longer with higher density in a wider range than Asians and Africans. The reason for this trend is as follows. It may be because after the division of labor between men and women, there was a strong need to prevent pain or frostbite in the lower nose and around the mouth from freezing hot breath when men mainly ran for a long time in very cold weather for hunting or others.

#hair #armpit hair #pubic hair #mustache #beard #evolution #function