=Do NOT= try the stuff that I discuss in this
addendum to my prior post without giving
careful consideration to the "***" endnote.
"kenneth collins" <kenneth.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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| [...]
| Because of this, it's probably not a "good idea"
| to use "sugar pills" as "placebos".
[...]
Observer: "Gasp!"
| So, if one wants to test a substance, why use
| an active substance as a "placebo"?
Observer: "Gasp! How can he be so ignorant?!"
I stand on what I posted :-]
I'll discuss it, more, as I continue my reading
in my introductory Molecular Biology text,
but, as usual, in this discussion of "placebos",
I only post stuff that's old-long-since worked-
out in the work I've done.
The stuff I'm discussing re. "sugars" will stand,
despite folks' "Gasp!"-ing.
My "assuredness" goes all the way back to
"the Terrible Times" -- when I was pushing-
energy with almost-complete disregard for
my Health. I discovered that, by cramming-
sugar***, I could push-energy more.
Observer: "Duh?"
:-]
That's 'just' it. It's one of those things that's
"just obvious", but most of what's =in= what's
"just obvious" has remained 'invisible' to most
folks.
When I notice this sort of 'invisibility'-in-plain-
sight, I always Recognize that there's "Treasure"
in-there, and explore it.
Anyway, in my "cramming-sugar"***, whatever
the particular form of "sugar" was, it ["of course"]
bore no =specific= realtionship with any of the
problems with respect to which I was pushing-
energy -- I mean, there was no "information" en-
coded within the "sugar" [usually sucrose or fruc-
tose] that I'd ingest, that'd, 'somehow, give me
the answers for which I was searching'.
There's no =specific= 'information-containing-
magic' in "sugars", so how could my ingesting
them enable me to Solve the problems I was
working on?
Simply by elevating my overall ability to push-
energy, which, if the problem is "picking apples",
is something like 'growing longer arms' :-]
The more energy one can push, the more "in-
formation"-processing work one can do***,
be-cause one can 'just' "juggle" more elements
of the problem with respect to which one is
pushing-energy. It's like adding a "supercharger"
to an automobile engine. Burn more fuel, go
farther, faster.
The analogy is rather literal. Folks call it a
"sugar high", and 'deplore' the way ingestion
of sugar results in a certain "wild-exuberance"
in their Childrens' behaviors***, but all it is is***
nervous systems working-faster, and reaching-
farther, be-cause their abilities have become
=temporarily= "supercharged" in their abilities
to push-energy.
But how can this easily-observed*** =gen-
eralized= dynamic enter into the "placebo
effect"?
I mean, when it's verified to be effective, the
placebo effect cannot be considered to be a
"generalized" dynamic -- because, when it's
effective, it acts with respect to =specific=
molecular-'level' "problems".
"General" --> "Specific".
How does this, seemingly-'magical', "trans-
formation" happen within the Biology?
It's in the relative-abundance of energy***.
Push-energy-more --> "reach-farther", faster.
Observer: "But 'reaching farther' is still a gen-
eral dynamic. If the placebo effect is to be
'speciffic', you still have to explain how that
specificity happens. Even if your arms grow
longer, unless they know how and why to
'reach', they'll not grasp the specific thing
that, if the placebo effect is actually effective,
makes that happen. So I don't see that you
have actually said anything about 'sugar' and
the 'placebo effect'."
"The plot thickens" -- The nervous system
"knows" what =it= it doing -- I mean, the
nervous system is already working on "the
problem" that, when the sugar-supplied
energy is added, it 'just' works-on faster,
"reaching-farther" into it's stuff [to the de-
gree that one has done the necessary "rang-
ing widely"].
It's =this= that I was discussing in my pre-
ceding post on this topic of "sugar pills and
the placebo effect".
What it comes down to is enabling more,
and more-powerful, TD E/I-minimization
to occur within a nervous system, which,
in this discussion, includes nervous systems'
control of immune system function [more
'controversy' -- in NDT, immune system
function is a form of "Cognition". Folks
like to 'ignore' it, but when one is ill, if one
pays-attention, one can experience a non-
verbal "internal conversation" happening
within one's Being -- stuff like "aches and
pains", subsidence of activity, fever, etc.,
with respect to all "symptoms", are literally
the stuff of such non-verbal internal commun-
ication.
As is discussed in AoK's "Short Paper"
section, in cases of injury with respect to
the body's ability to move, this internal
communication becomes flat-out Precise
and consciously-understandable, and one
can See how, in this internal communication,
the body is actively "strategizing" with re-
spect to "healing' itself [with respect to
"repairing" the damaged tissue that con-
stitutes the "injury", and how and why all
of this reduces directly to TD E/I-minimi-
zation. =Beautiful=!!! The "placebo" stuff
that I'm discussing -- same-old, same-old,
but in a much-more-subtle way.
In the placebo effect, "the problem" is,
typically, with respect to molecular dynamics
that've "gone astray", and this problem ruot-
inely has a Cognitive representation in which
it is, more or less, defined and recognized
within Consciousness, which usually includes
stuff that's relatively superficial within the
"internal conversation" stuff discussed above.
And what's significant, within the present dis-
cussion, is that this Cognitive stuff does liter-
ally tune the nervous system's focus with re-
spect to "the problem" [the illness] that has
one in a clinical trial with respect to treatment
regimes. And the =overall= 'point' of most of
what I'm discussing these 'days' is this tuning
extends all the way down into molecular-'level'
dynamics.
So, given this tuning that's flat-out observable,
it's no "surprise" that 'just' triggering a tiny
increase in a body's ability to push-energy,
via a "sugar pill", =can= enable this tuning
that's happening anyway, to "reach-farther",
and, thereby, "grasp" a molecular-'level'
"solution" to the problem with respect to
which it is tuned.
There's no "mystery" at all. [Of course,
"Groan", there's a lot of stuff that I've not,
yet, been able to discuss with respect to
what I long-ago worked-out with respect to
3-D energydynamics [3-D E.], and that
might leave others 'scratching their heads'.
I understand.]
So, because they are =active= in this way,
"sugar pills" should not be used as "placebos".
It's better to use some sort of really-nothing-
one-way-or-the-other stuff. [Is there =any=
such stuff that 'the' body's Truely-Awesome
"Noggin' Lab" does not "know" about? I
doubt it :-]
*** There are =Serious= Costs with respect
to deliberately ingesting sugar to enable one
to push-energy, more. One gains weight, and
suffers all of the relatively-well-known negative
effects of that.
But, more-importantly, one always "crashes",
not only after the deliberate energy-pushing-
enhancement is "withdrawn", but, if it's overly-
extended, in the midst of it, and such "crashing"
can include negative behavioral dynamics, de-
pending on one's =general= external experiential
environmental circumstances.
So deliberately "turbo-charging" one's informa-
tion-processing capabilities, via sugar-intake, is
=Dangerous=, and =should not= be resorted to
if one exists within 'normal' interactive circum-
stances -- because it tends strongly to result in
interactive "inward spirals" [AoK, Ap8] [which
is another way of Seeing how any why sugar is
=active= within all 'levels' of TD E/I-minimiza-
tion.
It's each Person's Responsibility to do what's
necessary to push-energy only in ways that
are Caring with respect to TD E/I-minimization
within other folks' bodies.
One's "crashes" are one's =own= Responsibility.
=Understand= all of this before you explore
"turbo-charging" your own ability to push-energy,
and =never= give your Children sugar unthinkingly.
k. p. collins
