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You cannot graft a reductionist vocabulary onto a holistic framework. By insisting on labeling a fluid, dynamic state of...
05/07/2026

You cannot graft a reductionist vocabulary onto a holistic framework.

By insisting on labeling a fluid, dynamic state of flow as "flexible top-down guidance," Kotler conceptually splits the subjective "evaluative" mind from the objective "aroused" body. He commits the "bifurcation of nature," trying to force the whole-brain reality of predictive processing into outdated, dualistic cause-and-effect boxes.

Read more in this month's blog:

“The Body Does NOT Keep the Score: Where the New Kotler & Friston Paper Goes Wrong”

https://zurl.co/6TvmI

05/06/2026

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You cannot graft a reductionist vocabulary onto a holistic framework. By insisting on labeling a fluid, dynamic state of...
05/06/2026

You cannot graft a reductionist vocabulary onto a holistic framework. By insisting on labeling a fluid, dynamic state of flow as "flexible top-down guidance," Kotler conceptually splits the subjective "evaluative" mind from the objective "aroused" body. He commits the "bifurcation of nature," trying to force the whole-brain reality of predictive processing into outdated, dualistic cause-and-effect boxes.

Read more in this month's blog:

“The Body Does NOT Keep the Score: Where the New Kotler & Friston Paper Goes Wrong”

https://zurl.co/ySJ9H

Kotler frames trauma as a failure of prefrontal systems to suppress subcortical threat circuits. But modern neuroscience...
05/05/2026

Kotler frames trauma as a failure of prefrontal systems to suppress subcortical threat circuits. But modern neuroscience destroys this logic: your cortex actually has direct excitatory connections to your brainstem! Kotler's terminology relies on the debunked "triune brain" model. Your "rational" brain is fully capable of actively cranking up your physical arousal, not just putting the brakes on it.

Read more in this month's blog:

“The Body Does NOT Keep the Score: Where the New Kotler & Friston Paper Goes Wrong”

https://zurl.co/aB73f

Sounds like cutting-edge neuroscience, right? Wrong. In his new paper, Steven Kotler accurately identifies a holistic cu...
05/03/2026

Sounds like cutting-edge neuroscience, right? Wrong.

In his new paper, Steven Kotler accurately identifies a holistic cure for PTSD—flow states—but then wraps it in the century-old, debunked vocabulary of "higher cognitive control." His ultimate failure isn't his “flow” idea; it's hijacking the modern language of Predictive Processing to slip in the Trojan horse of an outdated, Cartesian worldview.

Read more in this month's blog:

“The Body Does NOT Keep the Score: Where the New Kotler & Friston Paper Goes Wrong”

https://zurl.co/wTZDt

https://zurl.co/84pjl Jonathan Shedler's latest blog on Substack nails it:"Therapists like to talk about “empathy.” Who ...
04/30/2026

https://zurl.co/84pjl

Jonathan Shedler's latest blog on Substack nails it:

"Therapists like to talk about “empathy.” Who doesn’t want empathy? The problem is that what many therapists mean by the word is not empathy at all.

Psychology’s deepest insight is that we are not of one mind. We are of many minds. We have multiple, often contradictory feelings. We have layers of experience, conscious and unconscious. What’s on the surface is never the whole story.

So we have to ask: given multiple layers of experience, which part of the patient is the therapist “empathizing” with? "

Pseudo-Empathy in Psychotherapy by Jonathan Shedler

Everything you see, hear, and feel is just the brain's best fictional story to explain the electrical signals it receive...
04/29/2026

Everything you see, hear, and feel is just the brain's best fictional story to explain the electrical signals it receives from your senses. 🔋

Your brain's only real job is to keep your physical body alive, so it prioritizes predicting the things that help you su...
04/27/2026

Your brain's only real job is to keep your physical body alive, so it prioritizes predicting the things that help you survive and ignores everything else.

We invent things like traffic lights, calendars, and social manners to make life highly predictable, saving our brains f...
04/24/2026

We invent things like traffic lights, calendars, and social manners to make life highly predictable, saving our brains from exhausting mental gymnastics 📅

When you see something as cute, creepy, or gross, that quality is actually just your brain projecting your internal phys...
04/22/2026

When you see something as cute, creepy, or gross, that quality is actually just your brain projecting your internal physical urges onto the object like a filter. 🐥

Your brain takes massive shortcuts and purposely oversimplifies reality so you can make fast, practical decisions withou...
04/20/2026

Your brain takes massive shortcuts and purposely oversimplifies reality so you can make fast, practical decisions without being paralyzed by information. 🤖👾

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